Friends, A couple of weeks back we were discussing WP'S 29' coil gondolas here, and off-group as well. This month I am scanning up miscellaneous bits and pieces of paper, and ran across the attached

John Golden builds a boxcar mini-kit in the latest Resin Car Works blog post. http://blog.resincarworks.com/building-the-rcw-illinois-central-boxcar-mini-kit/

Interesting thread. I’ve learned a lot. I had Kalmbach “Freight Cars of the ‘40’s & ‘50’s” handy. The cover is a high angle color shot of a multi-track Chicago yard in 1942. If you have

Dennis Storzek wrote: Certainly all true, but perhaps oversimplified. I was intrigued, reading issue after issue of _Railway Age_ in the first years of steel cars (up to World War I), how many

I have always wondered if it wasn't an issue with the paints in use during different periods. During the era before WWI and 'tween the wars, the common freightcar paint was some sort of cheap pigment

I will look for the letters I read the following information from however as Richard Hendrickson used to say at the start of his presentations "to put all this in context". Context: The NP built 1000

Schuyler Larrabee wrote: True, unless you can seal the rust area so no more moisture gets to it (this is never 100 percent successful). But keep in mind that not being able to stop rusting, but

Great picture Bob. We don't get to see very much T&NO stuff. Thanks.

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Tony, whether they are “brittle” or not depends at some level on how thick the galvanizing was applied. I have seen galvanizing that would sheet off in large flakes, sometimes all the way down to

Also it depends on your time frame. It was renumbered twice and the door was changed during its life. J. Stephen Sandifer

Brian Shumaker wrote: "From photographs it seems one can almost assume that the all-steel cars probably were built with galvanized roofs and many wood-sided cars and some railroad

Schuyler Larrabee wrote: This is certainly true, though galvanized coatings are not brittle. Note also, though, that galvanizing often fails at sharp corners, for example along the edge of the

“The Santa Fe Modeler,” 2nd Qtr. 1989, p. 31 has an article by Keith Jordan on the model of 13000 that he made in HO scale. He laminated .010 styrene to an Athearn reefer shell stripped of its

Several photos and descriptions on pages 187-191 of the Santa Fe ice reefer book. Built in 1946, scrapped in 1964. “The Super Chief to California” on one side, “El Capitan Coach Streamliner

Ah, such is progress. I built the O scale model of SFRD 13000 in 1987, before desk top computers, home linked internet service and good digital cameras were available. So the 1953 19th edition of Car

Boston & Maine RR.

Photo: T&NO Flatcar 20553 (Circa 1912) A photo from the My Old Tulare County Pics Blog: https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZMa1pbyI8Es/VMg4faYA9HI/AAAAAAAABWU/-KR15UX_NB8/s1600/Untitled%2B(327).jpg Click

There are no models that I know of but this is a case of "I don't know what I don't know". Maybe someone else can tell us. I did come across an O scale scratch-built model by Ed Bommer. I know nothing

I has a freezer fail once when I wasn't at this house. It was a total health hazard and was scrapped. I can guess the same with all those reefers, I don't think they could