I've been thinking the grain-elevator thread would be appropriate for the Proto-Layouts group, in fact I thought it was *on* that Group, until I saw the Sheriff's post terminating it. Required

Bob Chaparro writes: “The good news is that there is a Yahoo Grain Elevator Special Interest Group” Good because grain elevators, not being frt cars, are not an accepted subject on the STMFC

Jim, let me see if I can answer a few of your questions. I live in Iowa and am familiar with grain elevators. In the 20s & 30s Iowa and southern Minnesota was raising corn and oats, with some wheat,

The good news is that there is a Yahoo Grain Elevator Special Interest Group: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grainelevatorsig/info The bad new is that they haven't had a message post since

Hi, I don't know where else would be a better place to post this question ... I just this week received some new Photo CDs and one of them is of GN - Depots. There are a -lot- (not just a few)

Both societies publish magazines but I can't tell you if the information you seek was in either one (the E-L society shows the contents of their back issue magazines on their web site). There may

Years ago, I mentioned to a friend who was a strong advocate for accurate colors, mostly for passenger trains, though lots of freight cars, too, about how an Accupaint lacquer mix color looked so

Friends, Martin Cohen from Tru-Color paints (Phoenix, AZ) replied to some application inquiries of mine, and I thought that i would share this annotated useful information with you. 1) Air pressure

Indeed Ben, thank you! Bill Welch

Bill Welch wrote: "Thanks Brian, this site did not pop up in my search earlier today. Photo of these cars are scarce it seems so I am curious if you or anyone have any sources beyond what Ed

Thanks Brian, this site did not pop up in my search earlier today. Photo of these cars are scarce it seems so I am curious if you or anyone have any sources beyond what Ed ID'ed. Bill Welch

Bill the ELHS does publish a magazine. http://www.erielackhs.org/ Back issues are on their website. I don't recall if it covered any strays these cars in the past however. They did offer Intermountain

Freight cars and locomotives will be rolling again soon on the Wheeling Freight Terminal as adjustments are made following a 1400 mile move. Check out the latest on the DesignBuildOp

Using Ed Hawkins very thorough research as recapitulated in his table for the post-war 10-foot high steel boxcars the DL&W built several series of 40-foot long cars from in 1947, 1948 and 1950 with

Is this a PE "water bottle"? Well, Mel maybe right that it isn't, and I appreciate his research. But, it's not a PE car, whose car is it? It's clearly a home grown tank, built on an an obsolete flat,

The photo to have is Georgia 19733 Buffalo NY circa 1956, a Jim "Jack" Parker photo available from "Bob's Photos." This is a wonderful shot showing the welded roof to great advantage, also the

Thanks to Ted, I'm now aware of 13 photos of these cars. Data are presented as follows: reporting marks - reweigh date - color - roof - reference GA 19712 - 4/54 - BCR - W - MRG 1/87 p15 GA 19580 - ?

Folks, Sorry for the late response on this. Inspired by the same Barriger photo, I have modeled both of these ends on Shapeways. See: https://www.shapeways.com/shops/mikeparts?li=pb Both of these

Photos I have all seem to show no black roof or ends; all one color. Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: STMFC List <STMFC@...> on behalf of STMFC List <STMFC@...> Reply-To:

Got a call from a friend asking for help with decals to do a coupleDL&W box cars. He has AAR 1937 design models. He saw on the Tichy sitedecals for the Phoebe Snow, large roman Lackawanna and one set