Friends, FWIIW, Jack Delano probably used Kodachrome Professional sheet film with an ASA of 8 or 10. Such slow films were all that was available until the 1950s. When I was a military photographer in

Dunno why some people focus on the flying gondola; Mather made his first fortune (which paid for the freight cars) with a patented glove clasp that's still in use today. You'd think that his 1905

Rob, A couple of points and then I'll be quiet. The Delano boxcar snip looked to have a color cast. I took it into Lightroom and as small as the PNG is, it still revealed a blue cast over the entire

Photo: NYC&HR Gondola 81888 A photo from the National Archives of Canada: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/CollectionSearch/Pages/record.aspx?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=3277265 This photo can be enlarged

On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 11:06 AM, Ray Breyer wrote: I'm currently working on a new study of Mather, from the company's incorporation in 1882 to its sale to North American in 1956,Be sure to include

Dave, Tony, and all; I agree with everything being said, with the addition that while true for the PRR (I grew up in Pittsburgh in the sixties and seventies, and well remember the air, water and

Re: Delano film color I thought Delano's WWII color film was Kodachrome? Arguably the most accurate and stable color film of that era? What better reference do we have? I am not a color expert, but

The heading for this photo is incorrect. This is MP 73799. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Is that an odd load, or an expedient extended side? Jim Gates On Thursday, November 12, 2020,

And a resin model of that "beautiful" N&W Class B-5 boxcar is available in HO scale from Yarmouth! http://www.yarmouthmodelworks.com/index.php/ResinModelKits/Index Jim Brewer

While it is not the same as a N&W hopper climbing the Wasatch , here is a B-5 class on the UP, behind a 2-8-0

The photo attached is of a car from the 73501-74250 series, built by Pullman and Pennsylvania Car in 1925. Ron Merrick

Hi Bruce - yes - I recall your model era, and I’d like to see that clinic! I appreciate how the Delano colours are not accurate/real. There are all kinds of biases in there. Colour correction in

I wish I could have sat in on one of those clinics; and look forward to the next time you can update that clinic. Mustn’t have been in the few years I made it to Cocoa Beach. It’s exactly what I

Thanks for finding this photo Bob, it seems to be one I haven’t seen from Library and Archives Canada. IOX 7044 was actually built by AC&F in the fall of 1920, and reweighed in 3/1937. Following

Rob, As you may remember, I model 1944, so Delano’s photos are a very important resource for me. Like Bill, I have spent some time following the works of military modelers and continue to do so to

Pay close attention to Richard's modeling notes for these cars, keeping in mind that they're biased towards the last decade for this group (1950-1960). Ignore ALL of his corporate history for Mather.

Rob, you must have never heard the clinics that Richard Hendrickson did on this topic, nor the joint clinic he and I presented a few times (and which I recently updated and revised for presentation at

Photo: Missouri Pacific Gondola 23724 (Undated) A photo from the National Archives of Canada: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/CollectionSearch/Pages/record.aspx?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=3933073 This

Photo: CN Boxcar 511477 (1931) A photo from the National Archives of Canada: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/CollectionSearch/Pages/record.aspx?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=3520060 This photo can be