Tim, I just can't figure out what's so wrong with using historically correct terms. It's certainly more desireable than being historically incorrect. Using a correct term, if one exists, is more

Really? I've had my slides used by MSB before in other books, and if they opened them they did a bang fine job as I was never warned of this and I certainly didn't notice it when they came back. Is

Rich Orr asked: "The PRR acquired at least one former SFRD reefer (not sure of the class) for ice service at I believe it was Trenton. (A photo of this car has been published in several books.) This

Greg,B&M,CB&Q ?Armand Premo

I bought a friend 2 Sunshine gons at N'ville. A Wabash and an ACL. He called tonight and asked what trucks to put under them. These are his first resin kits. I think he described Andrews for the

I am not sure John ever said a car with the early PS ends is Tim, I'm not sure either, that may have come from Gene's CGW book. But, as we say at work, you knew what I meant. Clark Propst

South west of Hamilton. It was produced chemically (Solvay Process) at Amherstburg, south of Windsor from salt and limestone deposits. The plant, last of its type in North America, just closed in

Ted, Show me a dictionary that has a definition for Carbuilder's End. In fact, show me that all Car Builder's Cyclopedias contain not only the definition, but that ALL of them have exactly the

Or because he has been hoarding the photos for the past 20 years for the book he has written and is about to be published "any day now, I just have to finish a few things on it". Bob Webber

Unless they promise to remount the slides (since, after all, they are being borrowed, not sold, and this is all for their benefit), count me out. -- Brian Ehni

Very interesting Terry! Tobacco travelling to Hagersville (where is that?) in MC box cars? Where did it come from? And soda ash too? Isn't that a mining product, or was it produced chemically

This would be fine if Creco actually made the doors, but since they didn't it is more ambiguous than Pullman proprietary, IMHO. As far as terminology goes, I am in favor of someone scratching their

If the slides are remounted in plastic holders (rather than in the sliced and Scotch taped original cardboard mounts as some hobby magazines did many, many years ago), owners might be less concerned.

Tim, I am told that slides give better results. Again, I don't know. I'm not involved in that aspect of the publishing. That being said, I do know that I have used color slides larger than 35mm as

For those interested in seeing some complete freight train consists, I have added 11 trains from 1927 that operated on the Canada Southern / Michigan Central to my website. You can go directly to

Paul, I agree with you. Speaking only of Morning Sun, books a few years back were published without demounting the slides. I thought they were OK. The publisher told me a few days ago that they

Tom, I can tell you that there is more material out there to be discovered, color and black and white. And I can tell you how to find it! Publish a book on any railroad topic. Almost immediately

Armand, NP, SP&S, D&H, SAL, ACL, SOU, RUT, L&N all still had double sheathed boxcars in 1950. Many did have steel ends, and were indeed built with steel ends in the teens and twenties. A sizeable

They probably use a drum scanner or other device that wants the film directly up against the glass, to reduce distortion. (Although judging by the quality of several MS books this hasn't made that big

Clark, I am not sure John ever said a car with the early PS ends is a PS-0... When he first coined the term, he was referring to a very specific all-welded, radial-roofed PS design bought by a number