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

Hello all, It turns out that the SP "main" -DID- shift to the K Falls route and was very much in use ... and carrying more traffic than the Siskiyou line. I've been told by someone who knows the SP

While it is unknown, I’m going with black on WM hoppers for my late 1926 focus. Here’s a Bowser model in factory paint that I updated.

Bruce Cool looking car; it’s nice to built ‘out of box’ and not get boggle down with a difficult kit. -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.

That's a long-standing debate, and to my knowledge never settled. I heard it hashed out many times, by knowledgeable people, when I lived in Pittsburgh. Some WW II WM photos sure look like fresh black

I was curious about that myself at one time. The answer is no, it is just coal dust and weathering that makes them look black. Jim Hunter

Were Western Maryland hoppers ever painted black? There's a steam era photo in one of the all color books (Don Ball?) which shows a train full of these hoppers, some painted freight car red, some

Don’t know if they’ve changed their policy, but I’ve had the Barriger UMSL do copies of specific ORER pages for me a couple of times before. They charge for research time but it was very