Fenton Wells wrote: "Could they be the C&BT or Front Range PS-1 boxcars ends, you['re] not old enough for 'years'." C&BT did NOT have a PS-1 in the line. The Front Range PS-1 was the same as the

Could they be the C&BT or Front Range PS-1 boxcars ends, your not old enough for "years" Just say'in 😙 Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

Mike Dietrich asked:  "At one time someone offered a short kit for bashing two Proto2000 cars. Anyone know if it’s still available?" That was Stan Rydarowicz's kit before he passed away.  It's

Why is there a resistance to FUBAR as the origin? One can readily describe a lame model with the words behind that acronym (whichever word starting with "F" you prefer). It has always seemed to me

I got a good chuckle over “when it was convenient” comment. Thanks for the dose of reality, Tony. Since we modelers don’t observe those instructions either, the stencils are purely

Roger, From what I was told just this morning, the MoT has not reopened yet. gary roe quincy, illinois

How 'bout a week at -20 deg. F? Guaranteed to freeze the contents and burst the cans. There is a reason for modern RBL's. Dennis Storzek

Looking in my 5 slang dictionaries i can't find foobie, it isn't in a dictionary of railway terms, or language of the underworld. Could it be derived from the US cartoon character Smokey Storer. who

A good place to look would be the GSC collection at Museum of Transportation Library in St Louis;They have a lot of photos, I believe I saw some of what you’re looking for while I was there a couple

There are also the 25 all steel cars Mathieson bought from DSI in 1947 ( MAWX5034-5059) Roger Hinman

Have you ever spent time inside a closed freight car sitting in bright sunlight for a week? Those canned goods could easily test the boiling point of water if it weren't for

Why were canned goods shipped in refrigerator cars? I have alway treated canned goods as something that do not need any special storage. I'm British and my understanding of canned means the produce is

"fubar" is an adjective. "foobie" is a noun. Sometimes you need a noun, and you make one up based on an existing, but appropriate, different part of speech. Ed Edward Sutorik

Thanks, Elden. I guess I'm being too obvious. Jim Hunter

I suggest that "foobie" may have some relation to "boobie." Jim Hunter

John, Looks like Intermountain PS-1 ends Rich Christie

Nelson Moyer wrote: I once asked a former car clerk, whether those kinds of car-side restrictions or "return to" legends were observed. "Sure," he said, "when it was convenient." Tony

GSC was located in Eddystone, PA, near the Baldwin Locomotive Works. GSC supplied the industry with one piece engine beds/frames with cylinders cast integrally, tender trucks, tender under frames and

Tom Here are two more with gray sides and red ends - we may need to compile a timeline of ownership! :-) -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

I am pretty sure the panel-sided MoPac gondolas carried sand a lot of the time, so 200 cubic feet of a dense material must have been worth it. The railroad had a lot of them so they must have seen a