We may get pushed over to the Passenger Car list as this is not really about Freight cars, but....Good feedback Don. The old article on milk trains in RMC back in the late 80's or early 90's only

Please dig into your photo files for a picture of large, 20-80, Ton off road dump bodies used in quarys. I have a steel fabricator on my layout that builds these large bodies as a subcontractor to

Not sure whether discussion of this car belongs here, on the NAMTA (Yahoo North American Milk Tain Association) group or the PCL but also noticed the car when Curt Tillotson's very enjoyable two

Richard, "SLW&C" (or similar acronym) was used often on waybills to denote "Shipper's Load, Weight, & Count." This meant that these items were not inspected/counted/weighed by the railroad, and

Gary, I saw that photo as well and am interested. We have found nothing, that I know of, so far in the SRHA srchives on these cars. According to my Nov 1951 SR equipment register SR had 27 steel

Speaking of 3-compartment tank cars, Bachmann just announced what appears to be an newly tooled 8000 gal car in N Scale. The photos of the model are not clear enough to nail down potential

I created a photo album entitled "3-dome tank car" into which will appear some photos of an HO scale tank car I bought on eBay once said photos are approved by our moderator. Does anyone know the

Morning fellows, Now that the Wabash stock car kits are being shipped,( see my blog for that adventure, http://www.elgincarshops.com/mylayout.php), it's time to look ahead to future projects. To that

Ed, This information helps a lot. I was incorrect on the White lettering, It's hard to tell from B&W photos, White from Aluminium. So at least we have settled that question. Thank you for the

There is a picture of this Milk car in Southern Railway Steam Trains, Vol 1 at page 13. It has the express trucks, no ice hatches and to the right the lettering features a large MILK lettering. The

Tom--You will also find useful The Keystone Modeler, #4, Nov 03. Steve Hoxie Pensacola FL

Richard Hendrickson wrote a four page article about these cars in the April 1999 issue of Railmodel Journal. Brian Leppert Carson City, NV

A shame we've lost Larry Jackman... I imagine he must have had jobs in three, maybe four different states unloading coal with a shovel.. two or three amusing stories per state! Dave Nelson

Richard Townsend wrote: I have a copy of Uniform Freight Classification No. 8, 1966, and it contains no such item description. Of course that's 40 years later. Tony Thompson Editor,

Tom, There was an article published in RMC in February of 2000 about converting the Bowser GS intop a GSh. Many of the detail improvements would apply to a straight GS. More details about the

Does anyone have or know of an article to improve the detail on the Bowser Pennsy GS gon. I understand the hand brake location is wrong for 1950 period-anything else? Were they still numbered in the

Eric, I don't know if this relates to your question, but I have compiled ACF paint specs from original bills of materials for 5 lot numbers of PQX or PQCX tank cars built from 1936 to 1941. All are

I'm looking at a January 1923 freight bill (not a waybill) showing Denver's Mine & Smelter Supply Co. as shipper of "37 SHEET IRON SLW" that were shipped in a C&S GS gon #16954 to Cresson &

Hello Armand, For good airbrush coverage with yellow paint, use a light gray undercoat. I use Polly Scale's Undercoat Light Gray (who'd a thunk it?) under yellows and also under reds, even most

Hi Eric, Here's a B&W 1954 shot of PQX 807 w/ silicate of soda lettering: http://cdm1819-01.cdmhost.com/cdm/singleitem/collection/p1819coll7/id/282/rec/8 Until your post I never questioned my