Mike and all, This would be the "Riding the Rails" episode of "The American Experience" produced by WGBH in Boston. They have a companion website at:

Hmmm....well...I don't know what's going on.  The box clearly says kit 2002 6k 5 course tank UTLX.  There is no photo of such an animal in Ted's tank car book but there is a photo of a USQX car on

Public Service Announcement: I note that tonight at 9 PM in the Orlando market, PBS will be presenting a program on Hoboes during the 1930's. The preview shots shown last night included shots of frt

Dear Peter: Great clinic, sorry I missed it there. Thanks for the reprise Ron Parisi [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Ben Hom replied: roof. See Vic Roseman's article in the November 2002 Railmodel Journal for details on the kitbash. > There were drawing published in Mainline Modeler for the CNJ boxcar clearly

Public Service Announcement: I note that tonight in the Orlando market, PBS will be presenting a program on Hoboes during the 1930's. The preview shots shown last night included many shots of frt

Bill, I don't have that kit, and I'm not sure what the prototype was. However, on SC&F's website, the photo shown with the kit number isn't a UTLX 6,000 gal. car, it's NAYX 752, a North American

Great kit but the lack of prototype photos in all the SC&F kits is frustrating. There is a single small prototype photo on Jon's website www.southerncarandfoundry.com. The Speedwitch tank car book

Thanks everyone for all of the help. Joe Piazza

Resin season has started and I broke open my SC&F kit 2002 and...sigh....once again there is no prototype info or photo.  I guess I should know better but, darn it, these kits are not inexpensive. 

I spent some time this weekend looking at a list of PRR freight cars c.late 50's to 1960, and came up with some interesting facts... There were still 11 USRA single sheath X26 boxcars in 1960, but

I've uploaded the clinic I presented at both NMRA Convention in Hartford and NHRHTA Reunion in 2009 to my web site. It's listed in the index bar along the left hand side of the home page. Be aware

I think Richard is right. I just built the Sunshine model, but w/o extensions. Nice kit! That is also a PRR X29B in the foreground. Elden Gatwood

In regard to the SAL cars, please see message #90361 and others in that thread. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

Tom Olsen asked: "Recently Intermountain's Red Caboose division has issued cars painted and lettered for Seaboard, CNJ, and N&W based on the X29 kit which has been out for years. How close are these

Recently Intermountain's Red Caboose division has issued cars painted and lettered for Seaboard, CNJ, and N&W based on the X29 kit which has been out for years. How close are these cars or are the

I failed to say that joints in the stick rail were not only low, but were staggered thereby inducing the oscillation. The oscillation increased with train speed until the cars were weaving in and out

Greetings all: The schedule and clinic descriptions for the New England/Northeast Railroad Prototype Modelers Meet are posted on our website, www.neprototypemeet.com. Please keep in mind that there

Joe, I've finally found time to do a bit of research in my photo files. Here's what I found. I have photos of GATX 2175 and 2323. Both were 8K gal. non-insulated cars built in 11-25 with

I've trying to get rid of some old hobby magazines I no longer need. These are all in good to fair shape (No missing pages, only one issue has a slight tear in the cover corner.) I am giving these