Folks, One of my projects is based on a photo of an ex- C&O steel hopper converted to a wood chip car with wood extensions. The extensions have cross-ties in three locations, across the top. Has

B&O Gondola 252689 With Climax Locomotive Load (1956) Photo from the Ann Arbor District Library https://aadl.org/sites/default/files/photos/N017_1232_001.jpg Click on photo to enlarge

Ken, I think that what you are looking at is the dome platform. Note that the nearer cars have the manway dome at the far end and no platforms on the visible side. The car in question however has

As info: Frank Peacock’s extensive collection of Cycs and RERs are now in the Southern Railway Historical Assn. (SRHA) archives at TVRM. If time permits, we will prepare a complete list at this

Tony You and Bob have given many of us a great deal of pleasure thank you very much for all your efforts. Paul Doggett. England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Many of you already know about this, but I decided I should write something more about it, so have done a blog post with some background and commentary. If you’re interested, a link is

For clarity, I referred to single sheathed boxcars, and while not all have scuffs, most do unless they are recently repainted. Nelson Moyer

Scuffs are not present on all box cars, for certain. But they are present on some box cars, for certain. All things in moderation, sayeth Aristotle.

I have a 2 (two) CD-ROM set of the 1940 (#17) and 1957 (#20) Car Builder Cyclopedias in PDF format. They are huge files (combined over 600 MB) of medium resolution quality and are not OCR (i.e. not

Too funny! Also at least until 1991 I think Intermountain was strictly O scale. On 10/18/2022 2:25 AM, Richard Bale via groups.io wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling,

My bad. Now I see the lumps you are talking about. Don't know what they are. Sorry. Doug Paasch

I think you're looking at street lights or floodlights beyond the string of tankers. Look closer. There's a string of poles out yonder. Doug Paasch

In the first picture (with the tanks in the gondolas) The 4th, 6th, and 7th car in the gondolas appear to have a "widget" sticking out of the should of the tank. I don't see any sign of this in the

Makes a change from using old box cars as sheds.

Tanks for the memories! “Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.” Mark Twain Chuck Happel

Bob - You got me on this one. When I first read this, I didn't pick up on the word "car" between "tank" and "bodies" and my brain was trying to figure out why/how you would turn the military armor

Charlie Yet another great looking car excellent work. Paul Doggett

InterMountain was established in 1988 by Jerry Porter and John Verser. Richard Bale Oceanside, CA In a message dated 10/17/2022 4:57:53 PM Pacific Standard Time, smithbf@... writes:

Being as it is a milk truck, what about waxed milk carton stock? It makes sense that the milk company would send one of their trucks to pick up the shipment. Doug Harding

Well you don't see that everyday.