The ends are wrong too if you are in to fixing. If this was intended as a close enough model then it’s probably ok. Brian J. Carlson

Photo: SFRD 14106 (Rr-53) A photo by Ashley Rodriguez: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=4691447 This class Rr-53 reefer was one of 800 cars (series 13432-14231) rebuilt in 1953

Photo: Unloading A Fire Tuck Photos from the Walla Walla Project blog: https://tinyurl.com/3p9848f2 https://tinyurl.com/xd2hj65c https://tinyurl.com/u4ardmpa Description: “New fire truck for

Photos: Combine Shipment Photos from the Walla Walla Project blog: https://tinyurl.com/437jp8zw https://tinyurl.com/ts3w5jz8 https://tinyurl.com/2ax72cbj Ninety-six cars loaded with 288 John

Fox Trucks This subject has come up from time to time. The archives contain messages with conflicting statements so I’ll ask these questions hoping for definitive responses: Were Fox trucks ever

Thanks, Dennis. I knew better re the slanty herald -- just didn't do it. Maybe time for some really heavy weathering on it. Bob C Dennis Storzek

The West Virginia Department of Natural Resources still uses rail service to stock the Shavers Fork of the Cheat River. It’s not a traditional fish car but the work continues. Here’s a video with

Garth, One of the interesting things about the fish car (from the website) is that it apparently traveled just about every across the country and could be found in any pre-war model layout. Ray

Andy, Are you suggesting J-B Weld's 3,980 pound two part epoxy, the one sold in most DIY and hardware stores from a bulk box with the two tubes wrapped by the instructions with a rubber band? Or do

A good way to jump into the resin casting pond is to go to an auto parts store and purchase JB Weld original epoxy and a tube of Loctite, Permatex or other high temperature 1200 degree exhaust gasket

No, no extras in the kits I have. Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, Al

At the MoPac Wichita yard, one track was removed and the adjacent tracks re-leveled to slope toward each other. There was a dedicated MoPac garbage truck to collect whatever was cleaned out of the

The weathering job looks great, very believable. Too bad K4 doesn't include lettering diagrams; the Soo applied the "$" herald with the sides vertical; it was supposed to be a perspective view of a

In 1996 I saw unit trains of mill gondolas loaded with stone (for roads and concrete) in Houston. I asked how they were unloaded - by labor! At the time they could pay less than

Aren't there extras in the old Long's (now Intermountain) kit? -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Gary ATSF 7127 was an Fe-22 ATSF 146225 was a Bx-37 Tim O'Connor -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Ray, How about state fish trucks instead? Several NORTHWOODS LAW episodes have featured such trucks of the type with a rectangular box with hatches on the top mounted on a flatbed truck. Try a Google

Boxcars (and other cars) often used dedicated cleanout tracks. That is a whole different story however, not what is being discussed. The topic so far has been automated car emptying devices ... to

The GN, and other roads, had huge high-sided woodchip gondolas with end-doors. These were emptied by tipping whole car nearly vertical on a hydraulically-inclined section of track. The same idea is

At Corwith Yard (ATSF), Chicago we had a dedicated boxcar cleaning track gang until 1983. First the dunnage was removed, then the car was swept out and finally washed down with a portable power