Hi List Members, We sometimes spend a lot of time detailing loads for our open-top cars. One such load is lumber. The image linked below shows workers stacking lumber onto a flat car - the process

Bill The B-5 were equipped with Ajax, Equipco & Universal Hand Brakes but I don't have car numbers. Jeff Coleman Virus-free. www.avg.com

As an octogenarian living alone I can't afford to put myself in any situation that carries the risk of hospitalization. Until there's a vaccine or effective outpatient treatment for the virus I won't

Does anybody on the list know the breakdown of handbrake type on these cars? The photos available to me show some Ajax but I see others that I cannot make out. Thanks, Bill Darnaby

I enjoyed the first one enough I would be more than willing to attend another.....even if you charge a modest "convention fee." And have the same quality as this first effort. I would hope this type

Sometime within the past year (it seems) someone on the list asked for help on the unique brake arrangement used on the Pacific Electric outside braced box cars. By now they have ptrobably finished

All, I have forwarded the revised file to the list owners and requested it be uploaded to the group's files. It has been posted to the Resin Freight Car and Plastic Freight Car groups' files. Jim

William, I would suggest you check/call Bob’s Photo’s, P.O. Box 52, Wallingford, KY 41093 606-845-3323 Bob only does business over the phone. I know in years past he had many colored milk car

I am looking for someone to scratchbuild a wood prototype Santa Fe passenger car in HO. I can provide photos and drawings. Jared Harper Athens, GA

Hi, I am modeling some milk container cars on the flat cars owned by National Car Company that the DL&W used to carry in their milk trains in the early 1950’s. Funaro and Camerlengo (F&C) has

And a properly attired engineer Bib overalls, long gauntlet gloves, Kromer Blizzard Cap, and a black bow tie! Tom

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Doug, Thank you. I will do so. Ken Montero

 Hi Bob and List Members, Thank you Bob for the very excellent set of images. I could not help but notice there are more images of this 1934 wreck - one of them is in the link below.

Ken if you check the group files for the following file you will find the 1949 AAR loading diagrams. Tractor Loading on Flatcars AAR 1949.pdf The diagram shows the tractors are properly secured.

Interesting. Going to Austria under auspices of United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. That dates it as roughly end of WWII and end of 1946. Dates n the flat show 1945, Jim Murrie

Am I missing something? I am used to seeing a profusion of tie-downs, either chains or ropes. Is there just a tie-down from the left side of the tractor's rear to the flat car and a strap through the

Bob Chaparro wrote: The crate would certainly simplify modeling tractors! Tony Thompson tony@...

Many, many thanks to the folks who put on this Virtual RPM and especially to those who uploaded their clinic materials over on https://groups.io/g/Hindsight2020 -- Steve Hoxie Pensacola FL

This car looks to be a DD car, see door tracks. My surmise would be that it is a chain tube. Dan Smith