Lots of cool models thanks for sharing. I really liked Jim Dalbergs's Lackawanna TOFC with the canvas roof. Might have to steal that idea! Scott

I uploaded a few photos of a single door Missouri Pacific boxcar I took a couple weeks ago.Their waiting for moderator approval. It was found on the siding of the Dardanelle and Russelville Railroad

Richard, thanks! To add data points, the 1955 Illinois Central Annual Report has a color photo of a whole string of white A.E. Staley tank cars in Decatur Illinois, next to a gigantic grain elevator

The RPM-East 2011 event wrapped up a couple of weekends ago. There are two Internet sites that feature images and video taken at the event. A number of the display room models were digitally captured

I have photos of Type 27s with both black and aluminum tanks leased by SHPX to Staley in the '30s and '40s, so the IM cars are definitely authentic, though I don't know how long those leases

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Hi all; I thank you all for your responses on container cars, and now wonder if you can provide any insights into what RRs were using the following

I have two Intermountain Type 27 tank car paint schemes - black car, and a silver car. And I have a Proto2000 Type 21 paint scheme - orange. I'm pretty sure there were orange cars, and WHITE cars in

I have lots of builder's photos of later Type 27s built for Shippers Car Line that match the specs above. These cars were built in 1937-'41 and numbered in the 20xxx through 226xx series. I also

Gentlemen, I'm having a lot of fun rebuilding an Intermountain car this week with all the brass and metal parts, etc., but I looked close at my prototype photo and found that I goofed up.  Turns

I ordered my various Walthers UP CA1's February 25th of 2005. And I received them not a whole lot later than that. Check out 932-7541, 2, 3 on the Walthers site. Ed Edward Sutorik

Hi Greg, Today's lunch-time surfing turned up

Hi Greg, I've been mulling this over, because I know I have seen the Western logo in print somewhere. There have been brochures and/or old magazine ads from Austin-Western for sale on eBay

You can look at the trucks and see if the are marked B&O or C&O.  Their twin hops got mixed up during the joint operating era.  C&O was buying deadlined B&O hopper cars from the B&O and rebuilding

Dear Steve... The B&O hopper located in North Conway IS an ex B&O hopper! In the 80's the Maine Central had MANY 2-bay hoppers where you could see the B&O lettering showing through the MEC

Excuse me but I was pointing out the freight cars in the background. Year of fords sounds great but those cars(various) look better, wish we could get a better view of the rolling stock. Regards,

WILLIAM PARDIE wrote: They permit you to do the 1946 orders of B-50-25. They do not apply to B-50-26. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley,

I have two of Ted's kits and along with the correct roofs (which were extra) there are additional doors which have the wide seem. Am I missing something with the doors? Bill Pardie [Non-text portions

I've posted some additional zoomed in shots of specific cars that appear in the yard photo I posted last week with the hope that some may be able to assist a little more with identification.

Bob Walthers produced a CA-1 a number of years ago. I don't recall exactly when it came out. Tim O'Connor

Bob Weston wrote: design? Have any drawings of this caboose ever been published in the model or prototype press? Prototype photos of similar cabooses show them with truss rods. Any info greatly