At the Collinsville RPM meet I "won" a Rapido NP Pre-War USRA DS box car. It is a beautiful model except for one thing, it lists to one side. I am not so great at troubleshooting freight car

It might simply be harder to get the railroad to carry your crate of stuff when there is no freight agent closer than Jacksonville or Omaha. The stations are closed, the agents are gone, the

LCL declined RAPIDLY after the end of 1945. Trucks quadrupled their market share of ton miles in just 15 to 20 years. Since railroads were Common Carriers, they were obligated to carry whatever

The Kato ASF trucks David mentions take .950 Reboxx replacement axles. The trucks roll far better with the Reboxx axles too - with a car on top of them! The Reboxx "roll

Thank you Ben.Armand Premo

Appreciating that there may still be some less-than-carload business on the rails, when were the railroads substantially out of the LCL business? Thanks. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Is the highlighted-in-yellow statement about half-way down the page that gives the axle length as 1.060" +/- 0.004" somehow inadequate? https://www.intermountain-railway.com/ho/hoacc.htm Dave

Denny S. Anspach, MD wrote: "I note that neither Tangent and Rapido (nor Intermountain for that matter) publish axle dimensions, so one has no idea -none, nada, zip- whether they are 0.990” or

Appears to be bundles of lath tied and stacked to the left, just inside the fence. There are also clay building tile to the far left and clay sewer pipes just left of the stack of lath bundles. The

Bob, The "covered structure" is likely a dump trestle for domestic heating coal, something a lot of lumber dealers also sold. I recently photographed a similar uncovered

Bob Chaparro wrote: Photo: PRR Boxcar 26705 Old but undated photo: http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-08-03-19/X7385.jpg Not that old in the grand scheme of things - Class XL boxcar,

Photo: PRR Boxcar 26705 Old but undated photo: http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-08-03-19/X7385.jpg The industry on the spur is

Well, that's what I was getting at - for instance, the LO of 1966 (albeit out of this group's time) is noted as grey, PPG UL-11938. I don't have the '57 PS-1 documents at hand - will have to check

Here's the painting diagram for the 50' DD and says 27" GRAY Chad Boas

All- Surely there are Monon Lettering and Painting Drawings out there that list the Paint Manufacturer, Color Name, and Stock Number for the band. Having that information might put the color used in

Responding to a report that Kadee HO wheelset axles measure 1.020” rather than my reported 1.015”, I hauled out a dog’s breakfast of stashed KD wheel sets of varying vintage, as well as opened

Armand Premo asked: "Does that include early post war lettering?" Here's Mont's list of decals. Set number 300 should have what you need. http://www.greatdecals.com/Switzer.htm Ben Hom

Bill,Does that include early post war lettering ?Armand Premo

Bill, Thank you for the response. I do have a couple of the IMWX kits on the shelf. Cheers, Bill Keene Irvine, CA

Bob I am not certain of it, but I think all of these PS-1 box cars were delivered with the white band MONON series 865 to 994 built 1957 PS 6ft YNG