I've been told, by one of my friends from the Great White North, that Andrew Merrilees was a dealer in used railroad equipment, and also a railfan, who used his contacts in the industry to cadge

Merrilees certainly had deep pockets from all I have ever heard about him. One tale I heard was how he bought the whole test department building in Altoona from the PRR, complete with it's

Cyril Durrenberger wrote: Cyril, reportedly Andrew Merrilees purchased a vast amount of archives from Simmons-Boardman, both material which had appeared in the Cycs, and material submitted but

I have a NPP X31b that I picked up somewhere years ago: dunno how many runs there were. Mine has flush roof, double doors, longitudinal air reservoir, but minimal underbody detailing. The floor is

Tony wrote: Buying new equipment which was already "out-dated" seemed to be the norm for the YV. They bought 3 wood passenger cars in 1907 along with small 4-4-0s rather than larger locomotives. So,

First, No-dashes-in-PRR-car-classes! (Ben is on active duty, so somebody has to pick up the slack <VBG>) Wabash, I believe, had 50' X33 clones, not 40' X31(B) clones. N&W's B2 class was a double

So where are they located, when are they open, and how does one get into the place?  Do they allow one to copy the photos or do they require that they do it?  What is their charge for this?  Or is

Steve; I agree with you, and other than "new" cars, I weather accordingly. My current take on trucks is to start with Grimy Black on all but treads, and then weather the sideframes

You need the entire link, Al, ending with "...459/index.html": http://web.archive.org/web/20010806091133/http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~bn 459/index.html Tom Madden

I keep getting Nationale Capital FreeNet and Red Cross requests with this link. Al Kresse

I agree with you, I've seen otherwise excellent models, nicely weathered, that have trucks and wheels that show clean body color paint in the deepest recesses and on the wheel faces, where you would

<durrecj@...> wrote: A huge photo collection ranging from about 1860 to 1960. It is unlikely to ever be totally "scanned" but all are available. John Riddell 091133/http: //www.ncf. carleton.

1870-1950 from what I saw Roger Hinman

The N&W cars were 49200-49299, class B2 built by Magor in 1936. You also could conside the DT&I series 12000-12399(Greenville 1937) or if you model the 1960's these cars were sold to the NP as

Guys, The National Archive collection is very wide ranging in terms of dates. There are a lot of pre 1900 shots, especially of passenger cars. I recall one box contained dozens of LS&MS truss

David Turner wrote: That was the standard design at the time, although 40-ft. cars were more common. The company name, incidentally, was Rodgers, not Rogers, as Jack spelled it. It's interesting

Back in November, Jack Burgess inquired about some 36 foot, 40 ton, wooden Hart Convertible Ballast cars with both side and bottom dump doors that the Yosemite Valley RR owned. (See his detailed

About what range of dates do these photos cover? Cyril Durrenberger

Jason, another possibility you should consider is one of the Red Caboose 42' flat cars, which - though most of the multitude of RC P/L schemes are bogus - are dead-on accurate for the NYC lot

Thank you for the information on the flats and the boxes.  I was going to add a couple of PRR FM flats to the roster for some mine machinery and some lumber but might need to rethink that.   Jason