As I recall, on of my models I slightly increased the visible depth of the walkways (from side view) with a narrow styrene strip laminated to the outside and inside underside edges of the etchings. Ch

UTLX 103W Red Caboose tank car with Plano walkways. Steve Hile decals, outer edges of main deck walkways reinforced with 0.010" styrene strip. I should have reinforced the dome access walkways that wa

Apologies, that was me. Though I prefer to think of myself as medium well. ;-) Chris Frissell Polson, MT

Thanks. You helped at the time with a photo and some thoughts as i recall, TIm. It has a few little boogers, but turned out nice enough I've got another one in the lineup to do. Chris Frissell Polson,

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15878835/cheswick-and-harmar-railroad/ Looks like there was a mine on the line. Interesting little road. Chris Frissell Polson, MT

Todd: "E.g., where did all that sugar in NP boxcars come from?" Pretty sure the answer to this is Great Western Sugar's central sugar beet processing plant in Billings, Montana. Chris Frissell Polson,

I can't speak to changes in sugar shipping economics between the 1940s and 1960s, but I can offer evidence that in 1969, from a study of conductors wheel reports, the NP was shipping plenty of loads o

Are the Kadee 40ft pre-1950 PS-1s molded with separate roof castings, by any chance? And might an undec kit version be available any time soon? I ask because these would be ideal for modeling a series

HO scale can load for a PTSX (Proleride Transportation Systems) recycled steel quad hopper. Aluminum foil tops from canned drinks, mainly Sanpellegrino, and a few other miscellaneous foil sources slic

Eric and others: I'm fairly certain the date and captions provided with the Montana Memories Project photos of bison in the post at 4:53 (#188898) are incorrect. Other sources confirm these photos (pr

Allen: Looks like there's a slide on eBay right now of a Molesworth batch plant that might be helpful: https://www.ebay.com/itm/124206352514

Rich, if I’m not mistaken, the most visible difference between the earlier and later version of this roof is how far the narrow leg of the raised impressions in each panel extend toward the roof’s eav

Bob: Pretty sure that's salt--herring were/are brined in oak barrels as the first step in preservation.

The lake herring or cisco of the Great Lakes, Coregonus artedi, might more properly be called a whitefish. They were brined in barrels same as Atlantic herring, hence the common name. They were and ar