The tender is an Oriental Limitied PRR class 210f82a Welded tender with the 3 man dog house and 8 wheel trucks. This version also has the "Trainphone" equipment on it as well. Matthew

Is the M1 tender a long distance one or a short one?

The Air Force also had its own Navy. Don't know if they still do, but the boats were part of Air Force Communications Service back in the late 60's. Ken Vandevoort

From David H. Grover's "U. S. Army Ships and Watercraft of World War II": In WWII, the Army had more vessels than the Navy--about twice as many (127,793). This included a number of stern and

Thank you; I’d forgotten. What I still remember is that San Francisco’s Fort Mason was the Army’s port of embarkation for the Pacific, and State Belt rails brought freight in from WP and Santa

And, the US Army's 'navy' included several ferryboats in NY Harbor, to serve the First Army base on Governor's Island. At one time, Governor's Island also had a railroad of sorts, operated by the US

AC&F built at least some of them. One is shown in Kaminski's AC&F book (not the tank car book). I have one of the models. I'm planning on using Archer rivets to make the car into a two-compartment

Nothing like them in the US. They are not two compartment cars; a standard dome of adequate capacity would not fit European clearances, so two smaller domes were used. Note only one dome has a manway

Higgins built ships for the Army in (or just outside of) New Orleans - they were large, ocean going vessels for supply. In addition, the Army had all sorts of small craft, they were the agent of

Garth, here's a pic of the lettering you refer to. Should your decails vanish in thin air (vaporated water..), Bill Kennedy makes new WP flatcar decals, including the text on the picture. Best

In 1944, after the invasion in Normandy, France, the US brought a large amount of engines & cars to Europe. Among those many Whitecomb engines and a large amount of double dome tank cars. These

Built both of Ron's SS RI kits, 50-ft and 40-ft. Yes they are flat kits but well done w/sharp decals. I keep urging him to to do other roads but understand his commitment to RI. Bill Welch

The 26th annual RPM Chicagoland event will be held October 24-26th at the Sheraton hotel in Lisle, IL. The event will once again feature three days of clinics on a variety of model railroad topics, a

Friends, When I visited the Army Transportation Museum at Ft. Eustus, Virginia about 35 years ago, one of these 45' tugs was plinthed along with some cool railroad equipment.

Picked up one at Collinsville RPM last month. Looks to be a very nice kit, no flash. I believe Steve Hile assisted with some of the prototype research. I’m traveling right now, so can’t go to

MSTS Forever! A good friend, Cdr USN Ret., did his time in that service. I need to forward the railbound tugs images to him. — ^<@<.@* }"_# | -@$&/_% !( @|=> ;`+$?^? ,#"~|)^G

The kit is their number 6.1 or 6.2 and it is a model of the stock cars that the RI purchased from Ryan Car Company in 1930 in the 75000-75249 series. The announcement noted that 6.1 is with AB brakes

Thanks Bruce & Bob, The Great Yellow Fleet was about the first place I looked but it didn't offer an thing of any use. The second have may not be good, Bob, but I also question the title. The

They had, and have, a variety of landing craft and combat engineering vessels. Separately, but don’t forget the Army Engineers with their fleet of dredges, snag boats, and support craft. Dan

Anthony is correct on all counts. Love to see that photo your friend took Don. Bill Welch