Ben, The X37's that were in Tyrone yard in 1970 were in PRR paint and were stored servicable. Tom benjaminfrank_hom wrote:

I¹m sorry; I didn¹t realize this was replying to the group. -- Brian Paul Ehni HMFIC Bryan, Palestine & Eastern Railroad "Serving All East Texas" [Non-text portions of this message have

Here you go! Brian

Quoting Larry Lee <jlawrencelee@...>: I'd forgotten about those others but you may well be right. Take care, Don Valentine

Doug Harding writes: Doug, you are some glutton for punishment... Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2942 Linden Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

<snip> < More important what The really tough part is going to be duplicating the aroma. Larry Lee Auburn, AL

To shift from our "discussion" of cement, I want to throw out another "rural legend". I have heard a story about meat packing plants shipping offal(?) (packing plant remains) from one plant to another

Scott Pitzer asks: All tank cars in revenue service had placard boards, and though the UTL type were unique, those on many other cars were metal and had clips to hold the placards in place. The most

Are these "standard" from tank cars to other types? I've seen them on passenger express cars and plain box cars (in later years) and Atlas molded them on their (1960s) Center Flows. I guess ANY is

Brian, I'm an interested party. Would you send the pictures of the tank cars you've scanned? My thanks in advance. Virgil Young Amarillo, TX vyoung5622@...

Sorry to use this list in this fashion, but i need to contact George Walls of Iowa. Geoge, if you are listening, please contact me off-list. My emails to you are being bounced back undeliverable.

Jace Kahn Mostly Fairbanks Dear Ben I take second place to no other model railroader in contempt for Lionel, despite having a smallish set in my youth, but they have come out with some full-scale

Jace Kahn wrote: Ah, sounds like PS-5's! Now I have to decide whether I want to go to the expense of buying another Lionel car, converting it to two-rail, and sacrificing the fairly nice

Ah, sounds like PS-5's! Now I have to decide whether I want to go to the expense of buying another Lionel car, converting it to two-rail, and sacrificing the fairly nice paint-scheme to make it

As did American Flyer (S) and Athearn (HO) with 40-footers. Larry Lee Auburn, AL

re: too many MT eastern gons out west, I suspect that a good use for these may have been shipping utility poles back east. I recall seeing many loads of poles headed east when I was a kid. I never

All five of the test cars built by Pressed Steel had Murphy rectangular panel roofs. Regards, Ted Culotta

Good morning, I'm working on an HO scale PRR FM flat car model to use as a Carrier Car for a crawler crane. While both F&C and Sunshine make FM kits, I'm using the Sunshine kit for this project.

f.y.i. don't know seller. 1. Car Builder's Cyclopedia Of American Practice 1949-51: Definitions And Typical Illustrations Of Railroad Adn Industrial Cars, Their Parts And Equipment; Cars Built In

Hi Chris, This is a interesting question. I have interviewed trainmen that have walked the top chord of empty hoppers balancing as they went. Of course the train was pulled by a Shay and was doing