Hi Bill, Model Power makes a plastic model of this car in N scale. I don't know if they paint/letter it for CB&Q though... Claus Schlund

Thank you for the ID on the load. What I would like to know is … where can I find a model of this flat car? Or any info at all? Cheers, Bill Keene Irvine, CA

On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 08:05 AM, radiodial868 wrote: In addition to those rounded door corners, you can actually see the door itself.Only at the rounded top. Square cornered doors, the top edge tends

Folks, I was pretty sure that these were not generators because of the additional equipment and the nature of the trailer. I asked over on the 1-87Military Modelers group and Jim Eager

Friends, Over the years I have acquired a number of locomotive photos originally from the C.C. Grayson collection. Can anyone tell me about this collector/dealer? All I know is that he lived in

I have to question the Sept 1912 date. None of those cars appear to be compliant with the 1911 changes to the SAA (ladders, grabs, sill-steps, etc.). When the amendments were passed in 1910, the

I believe it is a Fruit Growers Express. Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

Photo: PRR Boxcar 515355 (1912) A photo from the Historic Pittsburgh Collection: https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt%3A715.1237.CP Click on the photo and then scroll to enlarge

What Is This Flatcar Load? This is a photo from Marty McGuirk's Central Vermont Railway blog: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JW-ZAi-H3E0/U8h4fLAZUYI/AAAAAAAABoA/bOaVm0FaMv8/s1600/cbq91243.jpg Can

And the ice hatch supports. Never see those modeled. In addition to those rounded door corners, you can actually see the door itself. Most models are just the hardware mounted on the siding surface.

That’s great, Richard! Elden Gatwood From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io>On Behalf Of Richard Townsend via groups.io Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 8:17 PM To:

Al, The photo is circa 1910. These are early "tank on flatcar" types of tank cars with end braces instead of center anchors. Likely most, if not all, were out of service in a just a few more

Hmm, full side sills. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

Thanks to everyone who replied to my email re Swift tank cars. cheers Dave

Josh and Friends, D&RGW had 76 such insulated boxcars, 60000-60076. They were drawn from several blocks of Pressed Steel 12-panel 10' 4" IH boxcars which the Rio Grande began buying in the late 1930s.

A very subtle amount of paint failure on this roof. Steve Hile

What caught my eye was the rounded corners on the reefer doors. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

Thanks Eric. Vince Altiere

In almost all of these very busy vintage photos there's some eminently modelable detail that has very little to do with the obvious subject. In this case it's the air compressor on the street to the

I have a gondola loaded with purple glass “frit “ to represent a fluorospar loaf.