Hi. In regard to Tom Olsen's message of Monday, May 22 quoted below: I sent an email to Aaron Gjermundson at the email listed on his website inquiring about the availability of the "30 sets of casting

Hi. In regard to Tom Olsen's message of Monday, May 22 quoted below: I sent an email to Aaron Gjermundson at the email listed on his website inquiring about the availability of the "30 sets of casting

Al, I just bought two old 3818 kits for NWP USRA DS Boxcars. How do you tell if they are "old" or "new" resin? (What or where is the "good news" note?) If old, any recommendations for revised construc

Back in November, Jack Burgess inquired about some 36 foot, 40 ton, wooden Hart Convertible Ballast cars with both side and bottom dump doors that the Yosemite Valley RR owned. (See his detailed messa

Rob: In Re: Need information about several freight cars, circa Nov 1955-Sept 195 Posted by: "Rob Erickson" pattirobpatti@... rdepennsyfan Date: Fri Apr 3, 2009 8:21 am ((PDT)) Group, I have be

Rob, Thank you for the more detailed information about the sighting of SP&S 98 in a NYC train in Indiana in November 1955. Also, Tim's point about its weight being too much is right on. Rob said: Davi

Hello, I have a copy of a photo of tank car E.C.X. 188 lettered for �Constantin Refining Company, Tulsa, Okla.� It appears to be the builders photo (Neg. 170141-A-1) for a car built by ACF under L

Claus, Thanks for the check of the Westerfield ACF builder's photo CD. Per your suggestion, I have submitted the photo for upload to a file named Constantin Tank car. I'm sorry that it is such a poor

I took detailed photos, especially of the side-door latching hardware, of the car at IRM in 2007. It matches the F&C 6800 " Rutland ballast car" kit which I have. The Spokane, Portland and Seattle rec

Good News from Winterail in Stockton, CA, this last weekend, Martin and Trish Lofton were there. When I visited their booth, Martin was away, but Trish said that he was doing well. News from Sunshine

On my workbench are: 1. F&C B&O P-11 flatcar being converted to SP&S X165 as the prototype did in 1944, along with a load to help bring it up to weight, 2. a GN NW-5 crosskit project, 3, some minor re

The main website for Norwest at Promodelbuilders no longer lists any HO models. However, if you try this one, it shows some items discontinued but still lists the GN caboose, as described below. I hav

Ebay item 260952445769 is an HO model of the Oregon American (Long-Bell) caboose by FED. It shows the correct trucks for this car which are, as far as I can discover, not otherwise available in HO sca

Guys, Thanks for the ideas. Jack, the wheelbase was 5 feet according to the Equipment diagram (GNRHS Ref. Sheet 247) for GN cabooses 90608-90670 built in 1916-17 (this one was 90669). Theoretically, i

Does anyone know who is the correct person or corporation to ask about permission to reproduce something from "Prototype Modeler" magazine; specifically the August 1986 issue? Thank you for any assist

For those of us who came late to the prototype modeling fraternity, and don't have a complete library of all past publications, I (and probably many others) would jump at the chance to buy a compilati

I have a list of refrigerator cars iced by the SP&S Railway in Portland' Oregon during October 1945. Among the usual suspects for car owners , I found several cars with initials "RD". They are car num

Has any one had experience lately with obtaining permission from Mainline Modeler/Hundman Publishing to reprint an article from the magazine? If so, what is the contact information you used ask them?

All, Thank you very much for the enlightening discussion of the procedure to obtain permission to reprint articles from Mainline Modeler. As modeling columnist, I was inquiring for the purpose of dete

All, I'm interested in the new tank cars from American Limited Models for one of the "other" railroads that ordered welded 16K cars from GATC in 1949. The SP&S 38600-38619 cars were 95" diameter, 44'