Photo: C.P. Flat Car 30257 With Two Waterous Fire Pumpers (Undated) A photo from the National Archives of

Photo: Grand Trunk Flat Car 60303 Steam Road Roller & Fire Pumper (Undated) A photo from the National Archives of

Suggestions? - Livestock Cars & Operations Books I'm looking for books on livestock cars and operations. So far, my very short list includes: Live Stock Operations: History, Equipment, Facilities &

it’s available: https://www.protocraft.com/category.cfm?ItemID=1127&Categoryid=36 norm buckhart

Here's a Hercules acid tank I photographed on the CNJ at Lake Junction, NJ in November 1961. UTLX 14505. Great lettering scheme. Tom Madden

I've got all the major roads on the spreadsheet and see that the B&O was missing. If someone can furnish the top 5 or 6 scales for the B&O I’ll add these and start scanning photos for Hubert’s

Those are cool looking parts, Rob! Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

Another great looking model, Bob! Nice work. What did you use for the Carmer uncoupling hardware? Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

Beautiful work, as always, Bob. And the resin castings and decals are available as a mini-kit from Resin Car Works: http://resincarworks.com/decals_parts.htm Tom Madden

The 2464 looks like it was taken in Burlington, Iowa. I used a lot of MNX cars for potato loading.

Bob that’s a great looking car. Paul Doggett

Bob another fine build. Nice weathering. Lester Breuer

Great looking car Bob! Love the weathering. Jim Brewer

Couple of additional observations: - the panel lap joint feels a little heavy and - the panel joint needs rivets. (They were on there, but must have been lost during editing.) Rob

Hi Craig, Attaching a couple of photos of the first version of the Hutchin ends for the Accurail kitbash. Here are the issues I see: - printed flat, the overall surface is good until one looks at

It seemed appropriate to work on Chicagoland’s 2019 Minikit the weekend of this year’s scheduled event. A thanks to George Toman, Lester Breuer, and John Golden, whose earlier posts offered

Andy: You are not alone with this affliction. Paul

I messed with it a bit & came up with this. Tom

That's good news. I use MicroSet and Badger Softening solution all the time over 10 year old future and it always dries back up clear again. Some stubborn decals have required many applications of the

Probably series 90000 to 99999 - yes, UTLX really did have THOUSANDS of these cars! But of course they were on hundreds of different leases. -- Tim