Al – You don’t need to spend big bucks on the article. I drew model railroad plans from the article, had the photos from the article and a how to build the car in the 12/89 issue of Railmodel

Steve, Jared, and Group, On the Gridley Branch there were coal facilities both with and without coal sheds. Cheers, Bill Keene Irvine, CA [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Jared A good question. Since coal in a tender is always exposed to the elements. Yet as a kid, we had a coal fired furnace in Chicago, and that coal was loaded into our basement and kept dry. Sand

I assume the primary reason for a cover is to keep water and snow out which would freeze and make removing the coal extremely difficult. Could it be that tarps were used on the Alma Branch? I have

Steve, It's interesting that most of the pictures of coal bins and sand bins from the Midwest were covered, but those on the Alma branch were not. I wonder why. No one has been able to tell

I recently purchased a Westerfield GN 9000 series boxcar, but the kit had no decals. Am looking for 1941 lettering for this kit as provided in Westerfield kit #10452. Is there a chance another decal

By any chance did anyone on this group get the winning bid on the 1922 Railway Review 4-page article about the C&O 91-ton capy 6-wheel trucked gondola cars? I thought I had somebody seriously bidding

The latest 48 page issue of "The Little Giant," the magazine of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Historical Society, was mailed today to current members. This issue covers both series of P&LE bay

Does anyone know 1) the first for the round WM herald without "Fast Freight Line" in the center and 2) first date for the round WM herald which does have "Fast Freight Line" in the center? There are

Can someone help me with Jerry Glows web site? I'm trying to order but the text, in all the slots, is so large I can't inter information. Does he have a phone for a direct order? Jon Miller For

Coal bins like this: http://atsfrr.net/resources/Sandifer/Howard/Hamilton/Coal/Index.htm ______________________________________________ J. Stephen (Steve)

I've modified the URTX-Milw set for the Walthers car to create an as built version. http://home.comcast.net/~jerryglow/samples/URTX.jpg and did two different WM gondolas:

To Whom It May Concern:   Mount Vernon Shops is happy to announce the introduction of the following new Decal Sets to its line.   HO Scale PRR 65 foot Mill Gondolas int he Circle Keystone Scheme.

Hello group, Kieth Edwards passed away yesterday of natural causes at the age of 91. Kieth and his twin brother Dale co founded Kadee Quality Products back in the 1940's. Around 1990 Kieth and Dale

Coal was delivered in gondolas - drop-bottom or otherwise - to the Farmers Co-op Elevator in the small Iowa town (pop. 250) in which I grew up. Oscar Barker, one grade ahead of me in school, was paid

I'm working on a pair now. I am concerned about accurate decal placement. The only photos I have pulled off the internet are quite fuzzy. Does anybody on this list have a clean photo preferrably in

Would Scott Heiden please contact me off list? Thanks Pierre Oliver

Re: How those doors work. It appears to me that there are two sets of three doors on this side of the car. If you compare how the links are wound around (or not, as the case may be) the shaft,

The car in the photo is a CN GS gon of the "Enterprise design.  CN inherited a number of 36' versions from the Intercolonial/Canadian Government Railways, possibly CNoR and also the GTR, then had

Late 40's there was a small coal yd next to the IC Government Yd. Yard was used to service IC, GCL & T&NO pass trains and power. This little yard had a slightly elevated track with a small pad or