Greetings all: The 12th New England/Northeast Prototype Modelers Meet is Friday and Saturday, May 30-31, in Collinsville, Conn. (Northwest of Hartford) Layout and MassCentral Railroad open houses are

I wrote: [The Athearn 50 ft gon is] a model imagineered by Irv Athearn and has no prototype. David Thompson replied: "True, but Uncle Irv (or his toolmaker) may have had the N&W G-10 and G-12 classes

Where there ever any pickle cars on any of the southeastern roads such as the Southern, ACL or SAL? Allen Cain

John: Interesting. Thanks, but there's no need to violate copyright laws. I am looking for images of the cars that would have been used to transport the pickles from Foraker, Indiana to .Libby in

Is a book on these forcoming? Are the Suncoast kits accurate? There's a diagram of a FGE reefer in the '31 CBC. Would these cars still have a wood roof after WWII? Any color photos of

see Erie 14500 on the fallen flags site Erie (Erie-Lackawanna) -> freight cars -> gondolas -> 14500 Ed Mines

 mid 1930 appears more accurate than spring1930 as the Erie order may have continued to be built through August.If any one has conclusive dates, I'm interested. Eric N.

Mike S., Thank you for the information on the prototype. I do have all the references so I guess I should have looked a little before I posted, but you have provided a very nice summary in your

Hello Group! I wrote the following to appraise the ELHS of the Bachman car. It has far more applicability to the pre-1960 era. Sorry it is long; it is a review of the car. Bachman has released a

True, but Uncle Irv (or his toolmaker) may have had the N&W G-10 and G-12 classes in mind when they made it. http://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=20401 David Thompson

Hey Victor, There are some neat pictures of vat-type pickle cars in the Willis McCaleb B&O Trackside book from Morning Sun. The photos show nominally 40-foot cars with four large round wood vats

Tomislav Dornik asked: "While we are talking about gondolas, is there a prototype of Athearn 48' gondola: http://bit.ly/1ihle7R Photo is from

Thanks for sharing some excellent modelling Paul Doggett UK

There is the picture of Erie car: http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/el/frt/erie14500adb.jpg Interesting, Bachmann did not do Erie or PM, but four other road names. :-( Go figure. While we are talking

This car is shown in a series of pictures that includes its A end while being switched at Medina,OH in 1957 in B&O Trackside at pages 46-50. Gary Laakso South of Mike Brock

The solution posted as “correct” does not seem to follow the Car Service Rules as stated, given that each load has a route presumably specified by the shipper. That is a different problem than if

Standing on the shoulders of several esteemed model railroaders, I combined inspiration from the work of Richard Hendrickson, Tony Thompson, Peter Aue, and Charles Hostetler to make a tool to help me

Thanks for the replies folks. The info on my blog shows that at least in the late 30's, the pickling station at Foraker was a Libby, McNeil and Libby property. But in 1953 it was apparently locally

AC&F produced 2 pickle tank cars for Libby as lot 5552 on 6/15/09. These were copies of a Hyman Pickles car lot 3277 of4/15/04. Both photos are in the Westerfield AC&F Builders’ Photosdisk. – Al

Not sure what Libby cars looked like, they would have been part of Libby, McNeill, Libby Co. who started out canning meat in Chicago in 1868. They had pickle salting stations in Wis & Mich as well as