WOW - what a fire !! I hope no records were lost.

There are auction houses who handle brass collections, including Sotheby's. And Frank Peacock's model collection was recently auctioned off. The difference with auction houses is that the BUYER pays t

Steve Wow, you're right they've really screwed it up. I haven't tried to sell on Ebay for over two years and I guess I won't be using it any time soon. However, I did an 'advanced search' for OMI [Ove

Just go to the HO model railroad top level page and select the BRASS material box on the left hand side after scrolling down a little.

Oh no!! I was just emailing back & forth with Hubert a couple of days ago. I am so sad to hear this. :-(

Dan What a great collection of photos ! Thanks for the links. :-)

A number of the A-50-6 box cars (as well as some 40 foot single sheathed cars) were converted into "hog fuel" cars (without roofs) in the 1950's. In 1959 there were still 222 of these cars listed as A

There are liquids that are far heavier than water and petroleum. You can probably find out a lot online about chemicals without consulting any tank car information.

Ed has produced MANY box car rosters so the one that you want is Ed's compilation of AAR Postwar R+3-4 IDN (1948-1954) tabloid format, or Excel spreadsheet format. Modelers and railfans love to make l

Cool. What year is that timetable for ? I think the trip is much shorter for birds. But I could beat the train on my bicycle. :-D

looks like ACF Type 21 10,000 gallons

Very weird. They're just a few miles apart -- 30 minutes at 10 mph :-D

Didn't someone create a model of one of these plants? -- I don't remember if it was MM or RMJ or MR or another magazine, but I do remember it was a printed article. Maybe 20 years ago? Paper and lumbe

Until the late 1950's "wood chips" were called "hog fuel" and would be burned as fuel in furnaces although many sawmills simply burned them outright ! ( Those giant cone shaped burners. ) The Southern

Also, the ground all over the place was covered ankle deep in wood chips.

Scott In Wyoming I observed a loading track for woodchips at a sawmill. There was an overhead bin, and the car was tied off between two winches on the ground, and they moved it slowly back and forth u

Any caption in a Morning Sun book is suspect until proven to be correct. :-D

thanks! :-D

Nelson I'm fairly sure it started after 1960, probably in 1962. Here is a repaint from the 1951 order but I don't know if it preceded the yellow repaints or not. Tim O'Connor

interesting shot from Mandan North Dakota shows a Southern double sheathed 36 foot box car with truss rods and Buckeye ends http://www.nprha.org/BRHS/BRHS_467_1_1901.jpg -- *Tim O'Connor* *Sterling, M