Tim, The reason the Martin has never attended the West Springfield show comes down to one thing: They cannot promise to have a table for him! The Amherst group has been after him to come to West

Guy's I can use some advise on finding the proper size decals for some SP and PE flatcars in HO. I am slowly scratch building a few of these and I have just completed an F50-8 for the PE and my next

Hell's Highway (1932, Richard Dix) contains scenes of highway construction utilizing a narrow gauge construction train consisting of industrial diesel and small dump cars. - Al Westerfield

Several nice cars in context photos in the Spring 2010 Classic Trains "50 years since steam" issue: A nice color shot of a Southern freight passing by a CofGa E7 south of Terminal Station in Atlanta

For what he could sell, it's probably not worth his time. I know what it takes, I've created TTF fonts from tracings but don't worry about kerning because I use CorelDraw which lets me space letters

Dennis and other interested parties. Tracing the letters on the photo seemed like a good idea so I thought I would try it. I enlarged the VENTILATOR AND REFRIGERATOR photo enough so that I could

President Obama today called it "Snowmageddon". I like that description. Tim O'Connor

I think there was recent chatter on this list re: Hi-Tech Details' #6036 air hoses being too long and the new ones (#6038-6040) being the corrected length. If so, how much are the 6036's too long? I

Yes, the Santa Fe had photos of the cars that GATC built for the ATSF, and many of those survive in the collections at Temple, TX and at CSRM in Sacramento. CSRM also has a sizable number of GATC

My children have lived for some years quite near Wytheville, are quite accustomed to the weather, and they tell me this morning (smiling while doing so) that the relentless continuing snowfall

Rob, The 34th annual International Railfair will be held November 12-13 2010, at the Placer County Fairgrounds in Roseville, off I-80 northeast of Sacramento. Last year's event netted me over a

Railroads sometimes kept them. There was an Ebay seller last year dumping a collection of Santa Fe builder's photos (prints; I think she had the negatives), including a bunch of excellent shots of

Rob, I cut and pasted your question into Google, and their website was at the top of the list. On their website, it says, "November 12 -13, 2010 Rain or Shine". There

Tim O'Connor says: I second that. I can handle the bitter cold...why it's only gonna be 68� today and way below freezing tonight...44� I think. Why would anyone... Think positive. You

When is the Roseville CA International Railfair? Thanks, Rob Simpson

I should have added to my previous post that both of the PH&D box cars were standard Mather cars leased from the Mather Stock Car Co. Richard Hendrickson

Frank, I don't have anything on the other cars you inquired about, but here are a couple of images of the PH&D box cars. PH&D 1168 was at Washington, D.C. ca. 1940, Ernest Stefan photo, Kalmbach

Joel,           John B. Corns in the author of the 2 W&LE books you asked about.   Fred Freitas

Gentleman:Im looking for anyone modeling the A&S in Missouri(either before or after it came under the GM&O)need a station list from KC to Springfield Il. Also who is the author of the 2 books on the