I've been told on this list that B&O hopper cars had Duryea draft gear. What online photos I can find confirm this, except for this car painted up as B&O 829839 on the Conway Scenic at North Conway,

This is getting off topic but the early 1947 Fords were identical to the 1946's. This is per my copy of the 1941 - 48 Fords put out by the Early Ford V-8 Club. So these Ford are either 1946's or very

I hurriedly stitched them together for you. Forgive me for the liberty.   Jim Pickett Tom Madden wrote: On Veterans Day 1960 I took a series of three shots of the PRR Phillipsburg facilities

About a month ago, there was a posting from Tony Thompson about "Murphy" with the comment - As far as Richard Hendrickson and I have ever been able to determine, the term (Murphy) refers back to an

Group, For full disclosure, the back issues are in the works and we were working to get caught up before now, but ran out of time. Bob's article, while not strictly prototypical, was so good, I could

You are looking at 1946 Fords. The rectangular parking lights inboard of the headlights were the same in 1942 and 1946. As Richard Hendrickson has pointed out, the 1947 Fords were virtually

Thanks Jim & Ed, I found the doors I was looking for using your link. Walt

Mark, just for the record, those are postwar Fords, probably '46 models or maybe the nearly identical '47s. Richard Hendrickson

Dennis, I don't have a MUD frame, so can't mold small parts. Doing the same truck but with leaf springs would be freelanced, and I don't want to do foobies--that gets too much criticism nowdays. But

Hi All, After looking at the Mar Apr issue. The hopper looks like something to add to my project list.I like the early boxcar M-15 class wagon top cars too but most articles are about the M-53 class.

Ben, Bob Chapman, and all involved with B&O Modeler, Thanks for your efforts producing this truly First class publication. The timeliness of the material is evident. Jack

Douglas Harding wrote: supposed on about But I opens, is in red =============================== A work-around is to copy and paste the web page into a word processing document. All the text then can

Bill Davis asked: "Just out of curiosity what happened to vol 7 #1?? did I miss it or was it skipped?" Bill, the September/October 2010, November/December 2010, and January/February 2011 issues are

Just out of curiosity what happened to vol 7 #1?? did I miss it or was it skipped? BILL

The March/April 2011 issue of The B&O Modeler is posted at http://borhs.org/ModelerMag/index.html   Articles include: Modeling B&O’s Class N-0 Wagon Top Hopper (Bob Chapman) Class N-0 Wagon Top

Found an interesting photo of a car hauler in the background is a host of freight cars. http://www.flickr.com/photos/brimen/5054484296/in/set-72157625100884778/lightbox/ Mark Morgan

Tony, Steve Haas is correct. The Car Service and ODT struggled everywhere to maximize use of the US freight car fleet. This is why the lowest car service compliance in history was during WWII. At

Cascade Models was to heve been the importer of the models but rejected them for the 2 reasons you mentioned. They out weigh my Westerfield and Funaro versions of these truss rod boxcars by about 3

Andy Harman opined: There are many things I wish I had from 1960 (opportunities, mostly), but that car isn't one of them. It was a bottom-of-the-line DelRay, 6-cylinder stick shift, seriously

Tom Madden wrote: On Veterans Day 1960 I took a series of three shots of the PRR Phillipsburg facilities from across the river just south of Easton. A couple of years ago I assembled them into a