Otto… This is a great time to visit/hike the Merced River area. This is from a few years ago: Jack Burgess

Interesting. I thought there was an icing platform down there somewhere, but if you look at the bottom of that photo, just left of center, there is a string of reefers with their hatches open and a

Lol, Jack, you wisely chose to model the YV before the railroad was abandoned not too many years later😁 I’ve always admired your work, and the YV, but never more than during our very recent trip

Seems a Reading XMu class box has made an appearance. William Dale

Resin Car Works offers 3D printed Klasing brake wheels. Check out their web site. Nelson Moyer

I also note the Klasing brake wheel. I wish Kadee had a reason to do those. :-) Tim O'Connor -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Why yes, I’d be pleased to take that fire escape on the building to the right. 8^O !1 Schuyler

As noted previously by both Dennis and Bruce there are indeed aft lines securing the tug to the barges; the port aft line is visible in this view taken moments before. Also visible in this view is a

Yes, they went off line. Here is a one car Union Pacific transfer job in Kansas City in 1953. -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Nice web site! Here's a 1926 photo that's not included on the web page. -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Thanks Johannes… I have read (I think) that equipment was much dirtier after the war because of deferred maintenance during the war. I wisely chose to model the YV before the war started!

Thanks to all who answered. -- Colin Riley20-2500 Florence Lake RoadVictoria BC V9B 4H2

Friends, Fitzhugh-Luther was more than just a reseller. They built new freight cars, and sometimes in modest quantities. In 1907 F-L supplied California's Northern Electric Railway with 50 36' boxcars

Clarence, Given that the photographer’s notes are “Grain elevators alongside piles of materials at port” I think you are spot on and the archive misinterpreted that to be piles of grain.

Please check the 1955 Official Railway Equipment Register (ORER) for Fort Dodge , Des Moines & Southern (FtDDM&S or FDDM&S) for , class VS, of series 932 - 946 (evens) on the roster. I have the 1955

The coarseness of the material in the piles, the apparent method of loading (overhead traveling crane with clamshell bucket), and the beat to heck open top DMIR hoppers just does not make sense for

Looks like a pretty haphazard way to load lumber. Nice shot of the Straddle Carrier though. Charles Whitlatch

I've been working on a roster for a small short lived Michigan short line, the Keweenaw Central railroad. I have the report of original cost to date of freight cars that lists Fitz Hugh as the builder

It looks like the trucks are 1954/55 Internationals. Sam Clarke R&D / Tech Advisor / Artist Kadee Quality Products Co. mail@... 541-826-3883

Hello Jack, I don't model the 30s but appreciated your video nonetheless - many thanks. Top-notch as is expected from you. One is always well advised not to "overdo" weathering - but most all