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Hello all, Just curious if anyone could tell anything interesting or share photos (spotted in trains or on sidings/team tracks) of the WIF boxcars? I know they were used on Ferries between Fla and

I guess I end up wondering why there needs to be any sort of "Contest" or "People's Choice" at all? Non technical society RPM events like Collinsville, Cocoa Beach, etc. get along just fine without

Thank you, Ben. Nelson Moyer

If this is BRHS business, can you guys take it off list? Airing dirty laundry in a public forum wastes the rest of our bandwidth. Ben Hom

Nelson- If you want a Judged Model Contest then you go to the NMRA or some other contest. The purpose of the BRHS Modeling Contest is to get people to model the CB&Q….not to raise the

Nelson- I’ve voted in BRHS popular vote contests and the “Cute” factor doesn’t enter into the equation. While you are correct that there are many BRHS members who are or have a former

Train On The San Francisco Embarcadero (1935) A photo from the San Francisco Public

Dick Harley A full west coast strictly RPM meet would be a great addition. It would be nice if BAPM could add more clinics to fill out the day. Hotel rates are going to be a big budget item for all

What a cool truck! A boiler A locomotive air compressor. A spraying rig like the ones I've seen on later such trucks. And a tank of tar. Tom E.

Barrett started as a roofing company in 1854; the road paving side of the business actually came some 50 years later. They also became a pretty diversified specialty chemical company, with a number

Maybe related, at least to the contents of the car, is the fact that Barrett made a substance named Tarvia which was used to pave roads. Could have been used, perhaps in modified form, to soak felt

At least your BOD realized and corrected the injustice. The BRHS persists in its ignorance. Nelson Moyer

That exactly mirrors my experience with the popular vote contest at the Soo Line Historical & Technical Society annual convention. It's really disheartening to see scratch-built or kit-bashed models

Naperville IL is very close to one major airport (Midway) and one humongous airport (O'Hare). And it's on the Amtrak mainline for most west coast trains from Chicago. And there

I agree with Tony, with popular vote, the ‘cute’ factor outweighs any amount of originality and craftsmanship, especially when many of the voters are railfans without a clue about what it takes to

Pierre Some were made in lost wax brass but they came with brass freight cars and were never sold as separate parts... I have a brass UP box car that is

I do hope to attend CCB sometime, but not this year – COVID plus crazy people on airplanes. I used to commute to our Melbourne facility (not Melbourne Beach) from John Wayne (Sanata Ana, Orange

Which explains why the NMRA for years featured outhouses in many forms. I think they finally realized it turned off serious modelers. Thanks! Brian Ehni (Sent from my iPhone)

My observation from 15 or so years of hanging around contests is that the sure way to win a popular vote is to include figures, such as a couple of guys on a flat car, wrestling with a load. Even a