Just a note about researching at the Hagley. It is right in the middle of a Tourist area and even modest rooms are pricey. Thankfully the institution has two houses on their campus for researchers to

Bill. I use the plastic shipping containers. Been using the for about a year I think. Works fine for me. Some of my weathered cars are in the photos section. Brian Carlson.

UPS delivered (I love brown) PanPastel "Rust & Earth" and "Greys, Grime & Soot" Weathering Sets yesterday. They are beautifully and usefully packaged. Mainly it appears that since there is only one

Nice find. Definitely some good stuff there, including this one-of-a-kind: HOSPITAL CAR #38000 - CLASS ARA - SIDE VIEW :: Pennsylvania Railroad Negatives HOSPITAL

think you would need a bit more than your bits box to repair those cars;-) Paul Doggett England Sent from Samsung mobile "'Claus Schlund HGM' claus@... [STMFC]" <STMFC@...> wrote:

The Hagley Museum folks organized the PennCentral archives with Federal grant assistance. Big job! The Hagley has a ton of industrial history photographs of which only a few have been scanned. As

Hi List Members, Some images of STMFC's for your

I’m enjoying the book too. On my wish list: other photos showing ends of the various car series shownin the book, and modelling tips. Rob Kirkham

My copy arrived today and it is a very interesting book, though the Foxtrucks on MStL 4296 was unexpected! On page 18, the DL&W 45401 is infront of what appears to be an ice house with 5 upper doors.

Gene, I'll tell you that I'm not convinced it's Union, Iowa either, if it's any consolation to you. Way to many ifs in this thing at this point? Yes, thoughts about the depot being rebuilt or changed

I was very pleased to see the identification of the SLSF gondola in the Gondola Loading Scrap thread. I had done this gondola years ago and have since learned more about the car. When I did the car

Good, but I personally think that if the OP had a mill or drill press with an cross slide vise (http://www.amazon.com/Cross-Slide-Drill-Milling-Machine/dp/B001FGAJTA) he wouldn't be asking this

And to add to John's note, ATSF composite 40' gons in that time period would be a Caswell design, or Caswell "cousins" Ga20 & Ga22's. None of those could ever be mistaken for a USRA design. Santa

Scott Round holes suggest you're trying to replicate a Morton pattern brake platform, and the #80 drill size suggests HO. Have you seen the Plano Model products etched Morton walkway kits?

Hi Scott, I have a mill/drill with a vise. I'd put the styrene in the vise and use the x+y of the vise to position the drill ... and drill without ever scribing and with no hand positioning.

SLSF makes sense to me as I read the last two letters of the reporting mark as SF and the # 510(3/8)0. The ATSF 51040-51999 series were stock cars in the 43 ORER. John Barry ATSF North Bay

Barely possible, but it's far more likely that this is one of the SLSF's 1926 clones in the 50399-51927 series. By the beginning of 1939, the Wheeling had (according to the ORERs) rebuilt all of their

In the second panel, if you zoom in, looks like “SP.” Schuyler

It looks like a USRA Composite gon. Based on that assumption (always dangerous) and a road number of 51180 that would make the car W&LE. Regards Bruce Bruce Smith Auburn,

Hi List Members, Anyone have any thoughts on the road name for this one? I cannot make it out, perhaps someone will recognize the gon construction as being specific to some one