That car has all the spotting features of a Mather car. Dennis Storzek

Photo: CIM Boxcar 8183 A fair quality photo from Richard Leonard’s Rail Archive: https://www.railarchive.net/cimbook/page-m36.htm Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

US Navy wood box car ex-Port Chicago Military Sea Terminal at the Western Railroad Museum in Rio Vista CA. I have modeled the other car the WRM received using an Accurail 36 ex D&RGW car and Clover

Hi Clark! I like your well-worn B&M 71900 model. I thought you might like to know that that prototype number was in B&M records reported scrapped on December 19,1955. Thanks for sharing----Mike

I've got to get a better monitor...not so clear on my screen. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Flat plate ends and 6 1/2 panels on each side of the door? That is one UNUSUAL car ! I've never seen anything like it before. On 4/19/2020 5:50 PM,

When you KNOW about the blushing effect it's possible to use it to great advantage! Also, Floquil paint will usually blush with alcohol as well, without Dullcote. And

From: Bob Chaparro: "U.S. Navy San Diego Boxcar From the John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library Collection:" Note that his car is not equipped with an "AB" Brake system though it does have a

Clark/Group, The tank car NATX 3406 has the walkway only on one side. Is this specific to this prototype or this particular car? Thanks Chuck Cover Santa Fe, NM

Nicely done Clark! George Toman

Thanks, Garth! Elden Gatwood From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io>On Behalf Of Garth Groff and Sally Sanford Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2020 5:42 PM To:

Here's a virtual RPM to start your week. The modeling focuses on the Pre-Depression railroad era. http://designbuildop.hansmanns.org/2020/04/20/virtual-rpm-april-2020/

Ayuh, that B&M car looks wicked old - needs a rehab. Nice work on both cars! Todd Sullivan

Well, not really. I've got a IM 37 mod that decorated for Erie. I was going to make a CNW PS1 out of it, but don't know when I'll ever get to a swap meet to pickup a cheap donor car for the ends. This

I have but a single picture of a large class (over 1300 in 1953) of 40' steel gondolas rostered by the Wabash RR. The picture credits list this scene at a 1954 PRR wreck. I am hoping that someone on

This one arrived only 5 hours after it was sent. But I have yet to receive my own reply. Please don't discuss this issue on the list, as I don't like jailhouse food, but I have contacted Earthlink,

Garth, These are the cars ( Shenandoah Valley MW boxcar ) that were out in Inyokern. 3 of them. I took quite a few slides and prints of them but would need to dig them out and scan them. One had

Andy, Definitely military, but I'm not sure which branch. I seem to remember Richard Hendrickson coming up with a builder's photo of this class, and it was Army. But it may have been another car. I

Hate to disappoint you, Schuyler, but I believe the regular routing for these boilers from Schenectady to Bath, Me. was up the D&H to the Canadian Pacific, east to Brookport,PQ, then down the Newport

Garth- This car you pictured seems to have maybe been a 8-9 foot door car converted to a single 6' door car. Look at the L side has 6 panels while the right side has 7. The lower door track extends