Besides Tacoma, Pennsalt had plants all over the country, including Natrona Pennsylvania, Calvert City, KY and Wyandotte, Michigan that shipped by tank cars. Products included: liquid caustic soda,

Ike and all, Please don't forget the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac RR Historical Society (www.RFandP.org) that helps to keep alive the history of the RF&P and the memories of the people who

Bill Pardie asked: "Does anyone know the name and contact of the company in Nashville that took over Railpub?" Karen Stephans. It's on Railpub's old website... http://railpub.com/ Ben Hom

Although they are not strictly model railroading magazines, many Railroad historical groups produce high quality publications that are extremely useful to modelers. I am most familiar with the

I seem to recall water pipes made of redwood lasting up to a hundred years. https://www.mendorailhistory.org/1_redwoods/redwood_pipes.htm

There is a magazine store in North Vancouver called McNews that carries a good selection of American and British model and prototype RR magazines. I always stop in when I am in BC (6 or 7 times a

I meant mid 1990’s. Brian J. Carlson

Does anyone know the name and contact of the company in Nashville that took over Railpub? Bill Pardie. Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

Since the Penn Salt operation was in Tacoma, perhaps the routings for caustic soda, chlorine and or ammonia would not have taken the cars over the SP&S? But they did use the Milwaukee, as seen in this

Thank you, Todd and Tim, I now know far more than I did before. It just struck me as odd that they would have so many paint schemes when Hooker stayed with their classic. I've noticed that it is not

Two towns that I am aware which had wood water lines are Eureka and Fort Bragg, both in California's Redwood country with large mills. I am confident that many more towns had these as well. There was

While not the ones in the article we had some in the ground through the mid 1900’s in my hometown. They were being replaced when I was an engineering intern. Brian J. Carlson P.E.

I can’t imagine they lasted long in service. Thanks! Brian Ehni (Sent from my iPhone)

Model Railroaders to me is a recurring thing for beginners. No more plans, kitbashes, etc. RMC RMC RMC Francis A. Pehowic, Jr. Sunbury, Pa.

Thank you Mike.Armand Premo Virus-free. www.avast.com

My local B&N only has RMC sporadically or maybe they only get a couple and they disappear quickly. I'm not impressed with the "new RMC" anyway and don't like the larger pages as I keep any useful

My daughter works at a bookstore in a suburban mall here in Toronto. They still get RMC and MR plus a number of Brit model magazines as well as US and Brit prototype mags. They have a significant

Armand, An easy way to add a Monon car from that era is the '37 AAR 9000 series car that the Monon Society had Red Caboose run. Caboose Hobbies is now the vendor for the Society models:

Frankly, I get far more out of RMC than I do MR, especially since for any half decent content, you have to pay extra for with the MR Video Minus ) ; [ Take Care, Brian R. Termunde Midvale, Utah

Charlie Vik, Today there are so few LHS that it would have to be a "virtual" countertop. Sad, but true. Allen Cain