Hi Bob- A really nice job to say the least. May I ask if the sources youquote are available, i.e . the Richard Hendrickson articles and the Ed Hawkinsspreadsheets? I have a double door C&BT ATSF car

Tim O'Connor wrote: Kadee does recycle sprues etc. into virgin styrene, but only ONCE. The excess from THAT batch is all scrapped. Then excess from the following virgin batch can be recycled once,

A good portion of the DA parts were re packaged Grandt Line parts. Same parts, just less in the package. Grandt did use re-grind for some of their parts, not saying which. Before I bought Cannon and

The Fallbrook Railway was built from semi-bituminous coal fields in the Southern Tier of New York and Northern Tier of Pennsylvania to the Corning, NY area to haul coal for the Corning Glass Works.

Claus; THAT is one interesting gon, of course which there are numerous examples of. The RRs responses to the uniquely badly-treated gondola car fleets were numerous and varied. I am always

Photo: Fallbrook Railway Boxcar 1665 A photo from the New York Heritage Digital Collections: https://cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16694coll29/id/1935/rec/7 This photo can be

Photo: CCC&StL Boxcar 44759 With Banner A circa 1931 photo from the Grand Rapids Public Museum: https://www.grpmcollections.org/Detail/objects/163583 This photo can be enlarged quite a bit. Tree

Hi Elden, Thanks for writing – someone else said they thought it was Hocking Valley, and there was a second photo in the collection to support that suggestion Claus Schlund

Mont, Is any of that infrastructure still intact? My son is an assistant professor of military science at Ball State for Army ROTC and it might be a good field trip next time we go up

Group; On the subject of cool gons, has anyone built one of these? Thanks! Elden Gatwood

Claus; That is a different gon, and I am not sure whose. Note the end sill, grabs, and other details appear to be different. That jogged end grab and retainer location are hints, but I do not

Just FYI - the Zoom application allows gatherings of up to 300 people. This works quite well for lectures and presentations - ONE person broadcasting to many people.

The DA freight car ladders - very fine parts - are also extremely prone to breakage. I never knew it was just crummy (crumbly?) plastic. But since the problem never seems to

Friends, I have attached another clutch of C&O maintenance-of-way cars to share, along with what I think is their original class information from Carl Shaver's FREIGHT CAR EQUIPMENT OF THE CHESAPEAKE

Thanks Hunter, what a great and imaginative idea and I really appreciate this being set up. Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

Hi guys. We're thrilled and surprised that there has been so much interest in this even that we sold out in 8 hours. We're going to look into creating more capacity so that we can have more people

The car seems to wear a 1928 weigh date. Note the digits between the center and right men. Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

The X25 boxcar in this image seems to bear a 1915 weigh date. I’ve noticed the new paint on these cars did not wear well. Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

It sold out already. Organizers are looking to see if more spots can be added. Brian J. Carlson

Ted -- this is exciting, but I'll be dipped if I can figure out how to sign up. I'm on the page, but where to I click? StephenK