I was thinking the same thing. A great topic for Model RR Hobbyist -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.

Thanks for posting an interesting car. What is a "Divided Basket Bunker"? Would that impact the roof details? Thanks. Bruce Hendrick Brea, California

Canadian National Refrigerator Car 209120 (1937) Photo from the Government of Canada: https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=3520058 Click and

You're welcome. Nice looking "undec" you ended up with. Pretty much ready for decals as is. Many guys will go to the trouble of adding a gloss coat/future/etc. before they decal. My decal method

I would agree that the Intermountain SFRD models have rendered some of the C&BT kits obsolete, but the C&BT kits of body styles B through E are still the cheapest and most abundant source for modeling

Looks like a fantastic magazine article -- Ted Larson Trainweb.org/MHRR --- GN in 1965 --- NASG.org

tim Thanks for providing the juxtaposition of SFRD and PFE reefers showing the color variations and near matches between the two companies. Somewhere in my slides I have a photo of a string of

Hubert Or perhaps just an assortment of hide loading stencils ?? I'm sure there are many variations ! :-) Tim On 6/30/2022 10:27 AM,

When walking a interchange inspection I could smell a hide car car links away. It would certainly wake you up. I do a decal set for the old wood side and steel side rock island car Hubert

Tom Good points by Bill Pardie, and I still think that's a good color for a FADED car. But Bill's point that the SFRD and PFE colors are similar is very

George Toman shares his HO scale Red Caboose reefer upgrades to reflect the R-30-9 class prototypes in the latest Resin Car Works blog

I have about 4 dozen C&BT Santa Fe reefer kits... was planning to sell them off for $5 a kit. You're right that the bodies and ends are excellent -- and C&BT did many

I recall when I was working once a boxcar was loaded with hides it was no longer deemed fit for any other service and was the lowest class of cars. -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.

Malcolm Laughlin wrote in the Ry-Ops-Industrial SIG group: “Here's an excerpt from Car Service Rule 18 in a 1959 RER "(A) Box cars classed as suitable for grain loading or better or refrigerator

Dan Hall of Southwest Scale Productions has recently restocked his selection of finely molded styrene box car doors. Most are available, including the 4-6-6 Youngstown part 612. Website is

Jim, thanks for the suggestion. As you said, I applied 91% Isopropyl alcohol and let it set for a minute keeping it wet. I then used a wood toothpick and scraped. It worked great. Here is a finished

I’ve got five or six of them. A couple of 3 compartment cars, maybe one more, a couple of single compartment cars, and I think I have a two compartment kit down there, too.

Does anyone collect Globe tank cars anymore? Globe made some nice cars that Irv Athearn never produced. I am thinking of the two-dome tank cars. Globe used pot metal parts, though, that frequently

As I continue to scan and recycle old paper, I found this single page item that is attached. Dating to 1950, it covers a goodly amount of the membership I would believe. To all of you that fill out

I've used the same bending jig as Dennis for years except that mine is brass since I thought it would be more durable. I also use a length of appropriate thickness material (strip wood or styrene) to