Dennis Storzek wrote: "The first in depth article about a prototype freightcar I recall was on the X29 boxcar in the original Prototype Modeler magazine sometime in the mid to late seventies. It was

Mike, I can add a little more detail to the disposition of my line, for what it's worth. Beginning in 1983, about a year after Al Westerfield started, I ultimately offered five kits, some in multiple

Actually, that car was only marketed by Cameron Scale Models also. But as the discussion is going on about resin manufacturers, in O Scale, a few years before Rails Unlimited started selling resin

Peter, I don't know if Frank Ellison really fits that image, from the articles he authored that I recall reading in back issues, his mantra was realistic OPERATION, where instead of running 'round and

The Delta Lines!! Hugely influential. My Dad's HO scale dream layout(never built) was based on the Delta Lines design (O scale). When I bought my first house,I also came up with a ridiculously

I don't remember those articles (I was an avid teenage reader of allthings railroads) but I do remember being very impressed in those days by the models ofPaul ...[?? damn another brain cramp] and his

Great stuff, thanks Bill

CJ - you are correct! I remembered it wrong. Richard said the models werestolen from the trunk of his rental car in Philadelphia. Given that fact, thenit probably is the case that it was a random

YESSS!!!! Thank you so much Tim. This is exactly the kind of gon I need for my Willapa Harbor branch. Milwaukee, and 41 feet. And I appreciate you answering my question even before I asked. Talk about

As a impressionable teenager, I remember just being entranced by the March 1971 Model Railroader cover which featured Bill Clouser's O Scale boxcars on the cover. The detail for freight

All- I am trying to find what information the Northeastern / Ambroid CB&Q Dynamometer Car Z HO Kit was based on. Back in the late 60s or early 70’s I called Northeastern asking about it and they

The first freight car dinner occurred at the Milwaukee NMRA convention in 1985. Jeff English, John Neihrich, myself and one other had dinner together. We met informally each year after that, the

I likewise agree that it's a Milwaukee gondola, and came to that GUESS prior to reading the other posts. And yes, an idler car would be in order, perhaps it was uncoupled prior to the photo being

Mike, I’m glad you mentioned articles. A lot of the conversation has focused on resin car kits, and manufacturers (which I think may be cause of the majority of the conversation since that

To add to the list – BGR Group (John Newland) produced resin kits for passenger cars Norwest Kits (Brian Pate) produced resin kits for both American and Canadian cars. Point 1 Models Kaslo

Guessing at the numbers, it looks like 302x9x Ffrom the 1940 ORER, CMStP&P series 300000 to 302499, 41 footall steel drop bottom gondolas with drop ends! In 1923 the reporting marks would be CM&StP

It was an excellent presentation, for me the most memorable of the weekend. She had a wonderful selection of photos and videos, some I had not seen before. And her research was top notch giving us

Dennis An excellent addition to the conversation! As I said, we'd need a real (serious) publication to do the subjectjustice. In the meantime, let us not forget the launch of FRIENDS OF THE FREIGHTCAR

The presentation that my wife, Kristin Dummler, gave on Poultry Cars at RPM Chicagoland along with her handout is now available for download at: http://trainmodeler.com/clinic-handouts/ There are only

Since Steve Hile started his diagram with Clouser as generation 0, I'll take your input as more of a confirmation than a nomination. ;-) Here's the timeline slide, that was published as one slide of a