From the Carroll Schmitt collection I think everyone is missing my point. The B&W photos of the State of Maine cars establish the problem facing the photographer; Without a filter, both the red and

I am sure the notation on the glue bottle refers to the glue in that liquid form. It certainly does not refer to the glue when polymerized and set as an adhesive. I have had some challenging material

So I was going to start build on a couple of resin kits, thought I would try canopy glue this time, and then someone here (or another list) posted about taking models apart, putting them in the

Thanks very much for this photo, Brian. Aside from the question of stripe color, it looks like many of the details of this car differ from the Rapido offering. Dan Miller

Thanks for the clarification. I have shots of 5194 and 5196. 5194 has an X in front of the number so I assume these are probably company service numbers and not revenue cars. -- Charlie Duckworth

Let me add that sometimes gons of manure were just hauled to a remote yard location, ie in the country somewhere, and unloaded into a wet or swampy area. Of course this was all in the days before

Before motorized vehicles dominated the streets, cities had to clean up the waste left by horses and teams. An August 1912 photo if the Pennsy's Try Street team yard in Pittsburgh, PA, captures a

Before 1925 or so horses were the dominant form of "horsepower" in urban areas. Stables were everywhere to house wagon teams. And everyone who was upper middle class or rich had one or more. A horse

Charlie, The Westerfield GN 50' single wood sheath box car is Pratt truss construction correct for the 42000-42899 series, 42900-42999 with full end doors, and 43000-43049. The 43050-43499 had 3/3/3

I have never heard of a farmer selling or giving away manure, but that might have happened. That was a very useful fertilizer for the farmer. Usually the manure is a product of large stock yards or

The Resin Car Works minions have been busy. Updates on three kits have posted to the blog. http://blog.resincarworks.com/rcw-update-2/ Eric Hansmann RCW web guy

Rapido Trains is excited to announce its newest ready-to-run freight car – the Union Tank Car 10,000 gallon X-3 tank car. Modelers interested in accuracy know that most boxcars are painted red and

Charlie, For mineral red I use Tru-Color TCP-214. During the 1950’s, until October 1, 1956, the entire car including underbody and trucks would be painted mineral red. After October 1 the GN

I should have said every COLOR photo I have seen shows red on the bottom in State Of Maine paint. Black and white photos, on the other hand... Tim O'Connor On 9/13/2021

red is on the BOTTOM in every photo I've seen On 9/13/2021 10:58 PM, Dennis Storzek wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

There is at least one other photo of a Swift reefer in the Buy More War Bonds scheme. It is in the Hendrickson/Kaminsky Billboard reefer book and shows car 6306 and two other cars. In this view, the

On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 07:58 PM, Dennis Storzek wrote: And that brought me to the realization that, if the photographer chose a BLUE filter to put visual separation between the colors, the red would

I'm going to rock the boat a bit more. First, a photo to illustrate the problem, courtesy of the Protocraft web site: Which stripe is red, and which is blue? If you said the top stripe is red, color

I model the midwest and wanted some extra uses for my gons and hoppers so It was my conjecture that "bulk" manure loads might be an accurate bill for them? ---------------Here are a couple which were

According to the website/announcement, yes Joe binish