I need some help identifying some 1920's vintage freight cars. I have created a new photo album, labeled "mystery gons", and loaded two photos. They are of a wreak on a trestle near London Mills, Ill.

Peter Ness wrote: That would be in Hercules, CA., on Suisun Bay, along the SP's Cal-P mainline between Oakland and Sacramento. The company used a 36" narrow gauge track to move stuff around the

Hi Al, The 4600P at this link indicates it has the imaging software -HP Photo and Imaging

I am sure more authoritative responses will appear and I hope to learn more about this company. My own very limited research shows Hercules has a very interesting history as the company began

I'll be interested to see how this plays out. Intermountain is distributing the release of the NE-5's and at Springfield a delay was announced due to breakage issues where the tops of the ladders

Your club-mates are watching, Malcolm! SGL

Michael - They have drivers but not the program. I can scan one item but then have to reformat to do the next. The program will allow me to keep going rather than reload from Widows Explorer for

What type of cargo would these cars have carried when owned by Hercules Powder? Thanks. Frank Brua

The HP web site has drivers for the 4600, p and v

Does anyone own an HP Scanjet 4600? I want to install it on a new computer but lost my program disk. The HP site has no download. - Al Westerfield

That is the usual story, I build one, and one is released. Maybe I'll wait. Thanks Ron etc... plastic in HO???? the riveted to

Ron, Detail Associates BW 6401 is the Equipco 3750 hand brake and it includes the most common version of the E-369 hand wheel. Kadee's Equipco hand wheel is also an E-369 but better detail in my

Sorry to be slow in responding, John. I've been working against a self-imposed deadline to get revisions finished for my presentation at the Sunshine seminar in Pleasanton, CA on March 5.Now that

Ron- I take it that you are talking about the NE5 design that they shared with the New Haven, etc... You are aware that DesPlaines Hobbies / Centralia Car Works is near to releasing one in plastic in

I'm starting a CGW brass caboose and find that I need some parts, maybe some one on the list can help. I'm looking for: Equipco hand brake 3750 E-369 hand wheel US gypsum running board caboose

I've seen seven photos of this series (the AF-3 class, BTW). Six had the "Courteous Service" slogan, the seventh had a 1960's paint scheme with billboard "SEABOARD" and no slogan at all. Al Brown,

Hello All, I've gathered the following info on Hercules Powder Co (HPCX) 8000g, type 21 tanks with the hope of modeling a couple circa 1952-53 using the factory decorated Proto 2000 kits. As I

Bob, Thanks for the link to those two pictures. I can't recall where I found it (somewhere in the ether of the www) but I'll post the photo of 1266 to the files section of the group when I get

I've seen conflicting commentary on which is the early Hutchins end and which is the late one. I know on the Westerfield site the square-cornered ribs are referred to as the late style, and the

Frank Valoczy wrote: enough with what's available in model form to decide what to use as a basis for models of these cars. There are two photo on Elwood's Fallen Flags site: Nos. 1233 and