Dick, Nice work! What gets coupled to the “a” end? Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn, AL "Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield."

Dick You made a great job of that. Paul Doggett. England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Nice!! AL B.

Great looking car Fenton

Here's a photo of my most recent pandemic project, an O-scale model of L&N boom and tool car 42296. I built it from a vintage Train-Craft Products kit, with many modifications and some added details.

Well, Guy, I knew if I stuck my foot in it on this one, and the trap got sprung, it would probably be by you. As always, I have learned something both interesting and important. Just curious: is

Dave Parker were: “It would take some compelling photographic evidence to convince me that there were non-compliant cars in interchange in 1920 (or, perhaps, even in 1912).” From the list

And that mini-kit was the inspiration for the gorgeous FM-11/11A kits offered by Jerry Hamsmith, due largely to the artistry of Ed Rethwisch. Having built ten of these kits I speak from experience.

With regards to the CB&Q Flatcar. I built the Sunshine Mini-kit and Chad's NP flatcar. Both are great kits. My method of weighting was to measure the cells on the bottoms of both cars, Rule up a grid

There's an end shot of SWTX 7949 (or maybe 7940) in Canfield, "Erie Lackawanna in Color, vol 5", p 96. AL B.

Bill, Have you considered Chad Boaz's kits? He has some neat stuff nobody else has done. They are pretty basic bodies and underframes, to which you add the details. I have a couple waiting to build

Eric: I think you need to go back and read the history of the 1911 SAA amendments. These were not the stuff of MCB Standard and Recommended Practices, but rather Federal laws adopted by Congress on

Bruce Smith wrote: True as far as it goes, but I feel impelled to expand a little. After about 1875, tank cars were NOT just tanks on flat cars, but had frames that would not be suitable for flat

RE: Sullivan County Yes, that was a B&M leased line, along the Connecticut River. Can anyone discern the #? Looks like “5x5” to me. If 525, then this series (sorry for lack of data…)

I’d received the ID of the load after I’d posted the photo on my blog. Obviously I forgot to update the post! My car is a Sunshine Models kit that was one of the registration door prizes Martin

Bruce, Thank You. I need a few flat cars and this one looks like a good candidate. Cheers, Bill Keene Irvine, CA

Bill, The car is CB&Q 91243, an FM-11/11A class car. The reason that Marty's blog had the prototype photo was that he was building a model. http://centralvermontrailway.blogspot.com/search?q=cb%26q A

This is good news. Any chance of there being a model in HO scale? Thanks, Bill Keene Irvine, CA

The location is Pittsburgh, almost at the Point. The Allegheny River is on the left. The cars are lettered for the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, and Chicago (PRR Lines West), Alabama Great Southern

 Hi Bill, Model Power makes a plastic model of this car in N scale. I don't know if they paint/letter it for CB&Q though... Claus Schlund