NO real need to pay any attention to railfans or model railroaders. But now I think things are very different. The NYC, and the Pennsy too, have been gone since 1968. It is highly unlikely that

May I point out that Broadway has some new pictures of their NYC boxes on their site. They appear to be improved, but yet still fall far short of excellent. Myself, I prefer excellent. Ed Edward

Bill, Classic Metal Works has made a few nice Ford cars (mid 30s) and White trucks (1942 and later)for the period you're asking about. The Williams Bros. had some nice plastic Fords cars for

I have come across a small published photo of what appears to be a Southern box car being used in a milk run on the Washington and Old Dominion Railway. The photo is from the 1920 era. The W&OD was

Bill.... For a look at HO scale vehicles from the 30s and 40s check out the following web sites: _www.classicmetalworks.com_ (http://www.classicmetalworks.com) _www.sheepscotscale.com_

Dave, A few comments on your post. First of all, remember that in the steam era, cattle were branded, and brands were registered with the respective states stockmen's associations. This is to

I am a Director of the NYCSHS and I am a model railroader too. I have a 14'x16' HO layout based roughly on the NYC in Pennsylvania coal country. Quite a few fellow directors are also model

These weren't "laws". The were the provisions of a voluntary agreement between the railroads. Dennis

Rich   My notes have PH-29 as a sheep & hog train west. PH in this case for Pan Handle-29 I have nothing further,or, a reference to where the note orginated. Wish I coould be more help on this

Then as now I assume there were many laws that "had no teeth". This meaning that they are on paper but have no criminal penalties or way to extract money associated with them. -- Jon

Greg, According to 1952 freight car schedules, PRR was running the following east bound livestock trains: SW-8 rest and water at Columbus no stop Herr's Island PH-10 lives stock block terminated

And Dave, I know that the SP, T&NO, MK&T and other Texas roads would ship watermelons in stock cars too. - Steve Hedlund, Silver Lake, WA To: STMFC@... From:

That was my impression... during the steam era the only recourse the receiving road had was to refuse the car... and if it did so, the NYC would have to send it to the RIP track, spot another car, and

I looked all over trying to find a complete set but was never successful. I came to believe that the neither the ARA nor MCBA ever published a complete lettering set. I've gone into the original

The hotel does have a shuttle service between the Metra Station and the hotel. Bob

I'm Not sure just where to post this question so I'm going to cross-post it to all of the groups I'm in. I'm looking for a sorce for ho scale cars & Trucks RTR, in the 1920's -1940's Please contact

Is there a special rate code at the hotel? Stuart A. Forsyth [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Great news Richard. Finally! Now I can make my Amtrak reservations. Jim Hayes Portland Oregon www.sunshinekits.com

Think about the paperwork for a sec: Farmer Brown puts his 30 steers in the hands of the SP for transit to the public stockyards in Salt Lake City. Less than 28 hours later, the SP stops an unloads

Along the same lines of inquiry, *if* fines were levied by whatever procedures were in place, it would be quite the find if records were still extant for the 1945-1960 period that showed how many