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

Wouldn't it be wonderful to have this in color? Look at all those shades of supposedly the same orange, but with different shades of fading and grime. -- ------------------- RJ Dial Mendocino, CA

Did they use holes for bolting the floor boards to the car? Cars that I have seen have clips on the bolts that go over the edge of the frame members.

The elevator looks like it is in the process of being recovered with corrugated metal. Part of the job is completed, ie the roof and dump shed, but the main body has been stripped of it’s wood

They are not bolt holes, they are rivet holes. Back in those days, the bolts did not have the capacity of today’s high strength bolts used in steel construction. I look at those gusset plates with

Note the WP herald on the second car. Sent from my tricorder

I KNOW I’ve seen Diamond-T trucks very far afield. It’s been too long to remember exactly where, but likely the Boston area in the early 1980s. Sent from my tricorder

I would be surprised to think a 1953 model truck would not be seen two years later. I drive a 9 year old car. Modelling the year 1955 won't feature only 1955 made items.

A while ago we had some discussion as to how the bolt holes for the deck on a cast steel flatcar were drilled. While looking for something else, I ran into a neat youtube video of the construction of

Some thoughts about heavy trucks... In the forties and fifties there were still more regional builders than nation wide brands. By that time International Harvester, Mack, and maybe White were nation

 Andy wrote: “The Lindberg art seems to be of a pre-war to early 50's White. If the art is close to the actual model. the fenders look to be stylized to a bit of inaccuracy. Also, super

Sure it does... it's just tucked in behind the cab, mounted lower than some. I seem to recall this was an air pressurized water system, so should still work. I also think that is a late forties, early