The flat car is almost certainly Watervliet Arsenal #1 and the barrel was made for the Army at Watervliet Arsenal. Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

I was delighted to see the discussion this morning on the Quality Craft flat car kit. Above is the car that I did over 40 years ago. I feel that it stands tall along more modern kits. I added the

Ed and Steve, thank you for getting back to me. I understand fully why it was easier to have separate cylinders and reservoirs for the brakes on each truck, but those aren't modeled. The train line

Photo: Gun Barrel On HD Flat Car Photo from the Wyoming State Archives: https://tinyurl.com/yc35mmpk Undated. Flat car unidentified. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Photo: Producers & Refiners Corp. Tank Car PARX 423 Photo from the Wyoming State Archives: https://tinyurl.com/4vzwvmrf Taken in 1929. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Ed, Alex, The Pullman Library on-line Jim Kinkaid photo collection has photos of both a NYC well car, 499086 Railroad-N-Q - Pullman-Library (smugmug.com) and the C&O car Ed showed

Photo: PFE 14475 Photo from the Wyoming State Archives: https://tinyurl.com/2cvnp25j This is a Class R-30-11 reefer built by AC&F in 1917 or 1918. I’m not sure why this photo was taken. Perhaps

I built one of therm in 1994. I also have a 1953 edition of Car Builders Cyclopedia, which has a photo of a C&O well hole flat built by the Greenville Steel Car Co. and used it for a reference. It

Excellent work, as usual, Clark! Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of "Clark Propst via groups.io" <cepropst@...> Reply-To: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Date:

Yesterday I finished decaling this Speedwitch kit. I Dullcoted it with a brown tint and weathered with Pan Pastels and Prismacolor pencils this morning. I used the number that was easiest. I wonder

Might depend on what era you are modeling... Early cabeese likely were darker red-brown (mineral red?) similar to boxcars... although one cannot tell color from b/w photographs, there is little/no

I am puzzled by something in the instructions for my Quality Craft kit for a NYC / C&O well car. "Place the train line on both sides of the car as this car had a double brake system." Why is a second

The tank cars are probably there because of the Cosden refinery, later Fina and now Alon, a few miles in the distance in this view looking east. Of the railroad structures visible in this photo, today

Dave, You are welcome I am an M&StL modeler but there sure are lots of Goat people around here! Glad to help. Joe Binish New Hope, MN

Thank you Joe, That is just the advise I needed. I'm a decades long user of Scalecoat/Tru-color and they have a Santa Fe red also. I model Canadian National in 1944 but I'm painting this caboose for

Attached are pictures of the former batch plant in Burlington, IA

If the flooring is wood, they wood use bolts to the steel framing below. No rivets with wood – fire Allan whitecar

Dave, i have used Scalecoat Santa Fe red for the many GN cabooses i have painted for friends/customers Joe Binish

They may have used clips on the center sill, but one of the photos in the previous discussion about these cars showed holes in the flange on the outside of the side sill, prompting a comment that he'd

Hello all, Can anyone give me the name or description of the red used on Great Northern cabooses? Thanks for any help, Dave Lawler