Steve and Dennis, I suspect the toy tractor from Tractor Supply is an International Farmall A. Since my earlier post I found a near-match in a photo from Peter Henshaw's book THE ILLUSTRATED DIRECTORY

What a beautiful model! Elden Gatwood

Lloyd the WCFN was an interurban in eastern Iowa. http://www.r2parks.net/WCF&N.html They had a small fleet of freight cars. The Jan 1941 ORER shows a total of 87 cars, 25 gons, 29 Auto boxcars, and

I once stole this shot from ebay I think it was. After a bit of research I found a company called GHQ, making these model tractors in HO: http://www.ghqmodels.com/store/60001.html Fred Jansz

I probably should add that I have seen this text on retail structures. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

The whole Letter series of Farmall tractors were lettered A - M by size, with not all letters used. The larger ones, the M's and H's were built in Rock Island at the Farmall plant. Some of the

George Courtney asked: "I've lost my "Essential Freight Cars" RMC copy of Culotta's article on the MP, Georgia & Florida & KCS among others Alternate ARA boxcars. And the Sunshine reference site is

That offset body with the steering column running past the right side of the hood is the hallmark of the Farmall "Cub", which was sold as a light duty tractor for plowing the garden etc. Too bad they

Photo: Purina Chows Mill Structure, Minneapolis A 1939 photo from the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017809755/ This photo can be enlarged quite a bit. This is the first

I think after 1948 (+/-) open grid steel walkways were required. Previous to that time walkways could be wood or SOLID steel (e.g. diamond tread). As far as I know there

I've lost my "Essential Freight Cars" RMC copy of Culotta's article on the MP, Georgia & Florida & KCS among others Alternate ARA boxcars. And the Sunshine reference site is off-line. Does anyone

The short answer is no, the search capabilities here are almost nonexistent. The one exception is that you can (usually?) search the ACF photos by lot number. For example, the first photo in David's

I would like to know more about that flat car. It appears to be on Andrews trucks Lloyd Keyser

Some great stuff here, but everything is all mushed together in this collection. Does anyone know if there is a way to search or limit by type, railroad, year or anything? Tom E.

Don and Dave, I suspect that these items are too low-value to list, and are also more like impulse items. I have two identical pieces I picked up at TS a few years back, and I think they are still

You might try: https://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/k+s/k+s815003.htm Joe Melhorn Sahuarita, AZ

Clarke, If you need a set... I have some. Matthew Hurst

Hi Dave, Sorry but I don't have a link to anything from Tractor Supply. The two of their stores I've been in have always had a display case fairly close to the checkout counter in which I first

Hi Clark! You describe the B&M 71000 series (the first group) from late 1929. Use the Red Caboose PRR X(no hyphen)29 2D-F8 (ARA Type Y) trucks. They might be hard to find but that's the one. Mike

I'm really to decal a F&C early version of a B&M XM1 box car. I don't have any trucks in my inventory that match whats under the prototype. Can anyone offer me assistance? As always thanks for any