Having served a lifetime in the Navy, I can attest to Tony's statement. I would equate FUBAR with FOOBIE. Ed Robinson

Tim; Thanks for the fabulous photo! I have not seen that one. Wonder how the tank car ignited? I saw a lot of burnt cars on the PRR during childhood. Hot steel and wooden parts don’t mix.

Wood floors; flaming journal boxes? :-D I saw flames passing by under a box car once, in the late 1970's in Ann Arbor, on a Penn (old Michigan) Central freight along

A very nice looking car! Jim Brewer

Folks; I’m sorry if we discussed this before, but I may have missed it. What was the story behind this burning box car? Does anyone have any photos of burning freight cars they can

Friends, I've been perplexed for a number of years by several tank car photos I've scavenged for possible future models (Yeah, right!). Today I spent a couple of hours playing detective, and can offer

But, but, but you just added another post! And so did I, just now! Arghhhh..... Ed Edward Sutorik

ForThrowback Thursday I’m posting this photo of my new O‑scale Santa Fe express boxcar,a recent pandemic project. It startedout as an automobile car that the late Jim Pierce built from a vintage

Bill, Microscale did sets to letter the City Classics HO gas station kit. The Flying A set is 87-874 and the Gulf set is 87-902. Happy hunting. -Jeff Ford Sanger, TX

Bill Jolitz wrote: Until the early 1950s, the "insulated boxcar of the day" was the ordinary reefer. Everything from pharmaceuticals to dry goods to canned goods moved routinely in reefers if

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 09:14 AM, Clark Propst wrote: Red Owl foods had grocery stores in Minnesota and some in surrounding states. They had a warehouse in Hopkins Minn. on the M&StL. I was given a

Philip, I think the Roundhouse roof is a fairly standard tongue and groove wood roof. It doesn't appear dissimilar to the one on the ARLX 11000 series car. -Phil

The Mssouuri Pacific car I was referring to, was part of a class of 2,400 gondolas built in 3 lots for the Mopac and subsidiaries between 1937 and 1942 that were built new with paneled sides

I can't believe that there have been so many posts on such a useless topic!!

Marty McGuirk wrote: And of course "fouled up" is the euphemism. Anyone with any time in or around the military is very familiar with that other "F" word. An observer of the British army once

Marty McGuirk wrote: Full agreement, Marty. Tony Thompson tony@...

Marty McGuirk wrote: "Other Fouled has a specific meaning on a ship, No self respecting sailor would ever say Fouled Up when he or she meant Fu...." Concur. This thread is FUMTU. Ben Hom

Thanks Dave and Steve. This info works very well for me. Another great example of the shared help available from this fine list. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

Perhaps not; unless one were discussing the native birds of the Solomon Islands with the professor. :-D Do boobies build foobies? (desperately trying to steer back in

Gary; You are welcome. They were a dull grey from the factory, probably primer. They made so many, I expect they just primed all but the advertising one. Here’s a GSC cast F30A after the