Assuming that the switchman is facing away from the loco: the signal is "easy goes it" "slow down" "one car length to stop". Charlie

That must be a staged photo or a lot of artistic license. Even when men were men, you wouldn't stand on top of an icy running board of a car being switched like that. Couldn't see anything from that

Hi List Members, The set of images linked below show a trainman on top of a boxcar giving hand signals to the locomotive crew. The title sez 'Switchman giving the "go ahead" signal on an Indiana

Thanks Bruce - for consulting w/ Rapido as well as the answer to my question. Nice to know I am starting weathering from a good place. Rob

Bruce, you have most excellent eyes! Rapido really did a fine job matching paints. Gary Laakso

Rob, Disclosure #1 - I advised Rapido on this project as a member of the PRRT&HS Modeling Committee team for the X31A. Disclosure #2 - I am chair of the PRRT&HS Paint Committee, so I have access to

Dennis that's outstanding and even more amazing that's it pad printed. Might be worthwhile to buy a laser printer... 😁 Tim O'Connor On 10/26/2021 5:56 PM, Dennis

On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 01:30 PM, Tim O'Connor wrote: try laser printing "ghost" decals that are so light the weathering shows through them... 😁Accurail actually did something like this a number of

Thanks for that information. How were the coal tar chips unloaded from the car? Jim van Gaasbeek Irvine, CA

try laser printing "ghost" decals that are so light the weathering shows through them... 😁 On 10/26/2021 4:11 PM, Todd Sullivan via groups.io wrote: -- Tim

Eldon, I thought your weathering of the X31 in coal tar chip service was right on. Somewhere, I found a photo of adingle door car tht had weathered right down to bare rusted metal, with that bluish

Bob; That particular car was in a small series of X31a converted from general service cars for coal tar chip service. They had hatches added to load the chips through a hatch, not the doors.

That is only the nominal capacity. Look at the load limit. Tony Thompson tony@...

Bob, Coal tar chips. Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of "Bob Chaparro via groups.io" <chiefbobbb@...> Reply-To: "main@RealSTMFC.groups.io"

I'm getting ready to do a MEC 1923 ARA (X29) car in the green with yellow logo. I know TCP makes a green color but I read an article about a better green paint that wsn't a railroad color in a

Amen Chuck-- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

Tanks for the memories. Chuck Happel The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. Albert Einstein

As equipped with roof hatch covers, what commodities did these cars carry? Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

They did it on cars that had leaks. The lap seam roof was prone to leakage after it had been under the stresses of heavy boots, heating and cooling, etc. When I was young, there were big strings

These are the M-103A2 version with the big Diesel engine package, giving them a big “bustle”. The original M-103 with the gasoline engine had a much lower and flatter engine deck. Sad to see these