For C&O, N&W and Virginian Rwy related Morning sun books you have the key writers for those also doing those HS's  C&O History and ARROW magazine articles.  Those Morning Sun authors are typically

Can anyone lead me to some good photos of the aforementioned cars? Ed Mines

My gripe is that they have the nerve to call them color guides . In the old Car Builders Cyclopedias they use to have pages containing paint chips. Just like paint swatch books or swatch cards in

Errors happen, sometimes many of them... ...but I'd think that in prototype modelling, something we were taught in grade 5 on how to do research would apply too: verify your information with several

Happy Thanksgiving! In that spirit, isn't it time to move on from bashing Yanosey/Morning Sun. And in the spirit of Ben Hom, haven't we traveled this road a number of times. Full disclosure, I have

Guyz, While the PRR had several hundred K7 and K7a stock cars rostered, the most frequent visitors were from the T&NO, MP, T&P, Frisco, and an odd AT&SF.  Adds a nice variety to the operatiing

Interesting.  Do you recall what railroads owned the stock cars used for these movements? Does anyone know when this sort of live stock moves were started? Cyril Durrenberger

--- In STMFC@..., tyesac@... wrote: I'd be more inclined to use either heavier styrene like 1/8" thickness, or better yet, polycarbonate for bracing model STMFC's. 1/8" to 1/4" thick

My solution has been to install internal bracing in the form of thick styrene "bulkheads" to correct inward & outward bowing in box & reefer bodies near the roof line. By think I mean at least 0040"

UC 599 is fitted with clasp brake shoes and a KD brake system. The car's frame is extended out past the end of the carbody, likely to allow longer truck spacing to spread the car's 125-ton weight

Typical of many in the Seattle area that were used for shipping pulp (not pulp wood) between plants in the area. Howard Garner

Clark-- Actually, they use colourised black-amd-white photos, too. Their book "Great Lakes Trolleys" uses many of these. Steve Lucas.

My artwork is all vector so I can do it in any scale. I've done sets from N-scale to O including TT and S. One or two of the sets was originally done for an S-scale customer. Jerry Glow

Very neat Don. I would be interested in the history of the end door boxcar 161404. Why where the doors removed and the post looking things put in? Thanks, Scott

In a previous message thread, Schuyler Larrabee wrote: Although not freight car related, I'm in the middle of a project to caption over 200 photos of "Bingham Canyon Railroads", each with no less

My only gripe with the color books is just that, they only use color photos, so anything that was shot in b/w is left out. Clark Propst

A couple months ago I decided to scan and share the UP company photos I have collected over the past 35 years. John Bromley at the UP museum has given his permission, as long as they are credited to

Good morning all: Two observations here: First, good caption writing is an art form unto itself. Caption writing can be the step-child to good writing and photographs. The question in my mind is

List, A number of Lister's have praised the Morning Sun books because of the photos within. I agree that for the most part, the photos are excellent, but the fact remains that inaccurate captions