Ron Christensen's photo of NJI&I #4233 brought back a question re a NJI&I boxcar project I posted a while back -- anyone know why the prototype went with "wrong side" reporting marks on the

I'm getting impatient waiting to see if these will ever come up on ebay or the hoswap group, hoping perhaps these may be floating around on someone's shelf looking for a good home. Sunshine Models:

Magnifique!!! -- Michael Gross Pasadena, CA

One more comment: In my experience it was not uncommon for car repair tracks to have a small gasoline powered mobile crane ( about 1-1 1/2 ton capacity)on solid rubber tires to handle heavy material.

GeneI I went to your blog and viewed the outstanding model. Also enjoyed the build of running board post. Thanks for sharing. Lester Breuer

I can assure you that Richard Webster's description of a wheel change in a railroad shop or car repair track is accurate. You can not remove or apply a solid bearing wheel set without first removing

A couple of pictures of cars the 40 foot NJI&I boxcar was in Rantoul IL. in the 1960s The Wabash 49114 is in North Judson IN. The stencil reads "when empty return to NJI&I RR South Bend Ind" Ron

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Richard Webster wrote: As experienced riggers and workmen will tell you, when there's no crane, you use the tools the Egyptians built the pyramids with: wedges, levers and rollers. There is a

Here is the best I can offer. All have a small pulley outside the car door, which routes the pulling cable. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

Unless that one man is superman, he couldn't lift those side frames or wheels by himself let alone line everything up. I will grant you there is no crane, but those wheels are close to 2000 lbs. so

Cool photo. I need to model a boxcar with the door open. Scott McDonald

The top photo the truck is either already back together or it's being taken apart. The bottom photo is a disability waiting to happen with both wheel setout out of the truck and the side frames barely

Does anyone have a picture of the other end of the winch equipment? Virus-free. www.avast.com

Simply outstanding, Gene! I follow your blog quite regularly. Rich Christie

Gene wrote: “My scratch building project to create a replica of the Northern Pacific 9480 boxcar series is done. I was fortunate enough to have Lee Turner paint and weather the car. He used a

That is a beautiful looking model. Thanks for sharing George Toman

I'll be by there next week, those vertical cylinder structures (grain?) look very familiar. I did just realize that you can see the Tarrant County courthouse in this photo, which you can't do now

There was one called Japanese black. Normally it came off with mineral spirits, but it was eventually reformulated with something that was almost impervious to solvents and almost needed to be taken

Hi Lloyd, The common rust inhibitor used for decades was Cosmoline. Not sure if it is still in use today. Regards, Tom Palmer