I've been poking around through the archives, but haven't found a clear answer. Am I correct in assuming that these would have stayed on home rails while in milk service? I found info that they

Photo: Rock Island Automobile Boxcar 59074 (Undated) Cropped photo from the Gateway To Oklahoma History website. Taken at Oklahoma City. Double-sheathed car. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

I agree with Chilcote; it would be a good idea to contact the WMRHS about the hopper cars. Eric is a good moeler, but he models an era much earlier than most of the folks who follow this list. For

Lester, Excellent - both the car itself -and- the blog entry documenting what you did to produce it. Thanks! I have two questions. First - it seems, from the pics, that the ends of the car are

Need to play catch up and fulfill the demand! B&O Eric In TN

There is another possible reason for black car color on the early WM hopper fleet. The WM was owned by the Gould Syndicate for several years in the early 20th century. The W&LE and

Does anyone have drawings of the wooden trestles that the Southern constructed in the 1950s (and earlier) to go across low marshes and swamp areas? These were typically not very tall. I would like

Richard, 131.1 has a Duryea underframe while 131.4 has an AAR underframe. -Phil Lee

I built and upgraded a Great Northern (GN) stock car kit. I built the Accurail GN stock single deck stock car in GN class SM that I numbered 55756. The Accurail kit is a excellent match for GN

I'm 95% sure WMRHS has found documentation of cars painted black in the teens and 20s. Of course you could still argue that maybe they were supposed to be black on paper, and turned out red, but

The Protocraft site states the Diamod logos were added in early 1950`s repaints - see link Protocraft Bill

John, I can't find that info in any of my references, all the pictures I have of that series is after your modeling date but I will keep digging. In the mean time here is the layout page for that

Well, going out of business appears to be good business as Archer states that “due to overwhelming response to our inventory liquidation sale we are temporarily not accepting orders….” AT&SF

To Pierre Oliver Hello Pierre.. Please clarify the difference between YMW 131.1 and YMW 131.4. Thanks for your help. Richard Bale Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine. In a message dated 8/6/2022

While reading through the consists on canadasouthern.com, I found that Bay Terminal tank cars (reporting mark BT) were apparently sometimes seen in NYC trains on the Toledo and Lake Divisions and were

All: Please be advised that due to an overwhelming response, most of the resin kits have already been spoken for! I have been promised an updated list of what is available. Mark

My recollection is hearing that the Siskiyou line was quite torturous, hence the alternate route. Even Amtrak takes the alternate route. Rode it many years ago from Seattle to Oakland. Ted

A local model railroader passed away recently leaving behind a large collection of HO scale brass and plastic locomotives and rolling stock. There is also a sizeable number of unbuilt resin kits from

Close, but no cigar! The lettering on the car in the photo indicates this is Rutland #304, which Railworks also imported a version of. See this listing

Until l saw the Eiffel tower in reality l had always assumed it was black, but it is actually a sort of freight car red. My brother who vhas visited Paris many times in the last 30 years says it's