One more refrigerator car from the lens of Dallas Gilbertson, Pure Carbonic Co. dry ice refrigerator car DICX 319. Tom Dill Collection, Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive. Richard Wilkens Director of

Great photos thank you for sharing Paul Doggett England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Factoring in all of the input, I've figured it out. Thanks everyone. The end grabs need to have 4" legs and not the standard 2" grabs in order to clear the panels and yet still provide the 2" ARA

More refrigerator car photos taken by Dallas Gilbertson, North Western Refrigerator Line Refrigerator Car NWX 10548 at Santa Maria, CA in May 1953. Tom Dill Collection, Pacific Northwest Railroad

I take it from some other posts that these have begun arriving. I have a few questions for this group, first of all, are people satisfied with their fidelity to the prototype, general quality, and

Your “serious modeler” is seriously under-informed. The cars were neither intended nor used as head-end cars. They were simply part of the PFE fleet, experiments that were not repeated. The

NP Ice Bunker Ladders 1925 -Hudson

The fate of B&M 65676 1925 -Hudson

Two comments. First, it’s not quite unique as there were two of them; second, note it has the post-1948 UP emblem, not true when it was built in 1946. But it still has black hinges and sill tabs. It

As Terry posted the other day: From their January 2022 price list - Detail Associates info: Detail Associates PO Box 3052 Monterey, CA 93942 email: dadetails@... phone: 831-394-3838

So, DW has a web page but I cannot find one for DA. How does one contact DA? -- Ed Robinson

It appears as if our models do not need to have all of their grabs irons exactly straight. 😊 Chuck Cover Santa Fe, NM

I'm pretty sure this is the Mt Vernon Builders photo. Brand new car. This could have been simply done with conventional grabs in 3 locations and 4 offset leg ones like that bottom grab. I'm an

I tend to agree. It looks like the support is pushed in over one “valley” causing the rung to veer upwards and pulled out over the next above “valley” causing the rung to veer downward.

In a recent message, I've noticed another example of a double sheathed car with no fascia, the metal roof being nailed directly to the car siding. Dennis Storzek

On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 01:38 AM, Fred Jansz wrote: Why not straight down over the tops of the ribs?I'm sure that was the design intent. What you are looking at is damage. Often these photos that show

forgot to mention the "white wall" tires :-D On 10/10/2022 9:29 AM, Tim O'Connor wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

On 10/9/2022 9:54 PM, WILLIAM PARDIE wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

WOW. Even the ice hatch plug seems to be aluminum :-) Thanks for sharing this beautiful image. On 10/9/2022 5:05 PM, Richard Wilkens wrote:

And one as an attachment Fred Jansz