Thanks Jim for your response, Good info!! I should need to get a copy of Johnson's L&N Color Guide. I first had an HO model of an L&N 40 foot,(PS-1 [?]) boxcar from, Varney (?), Athearn (?) back in 19

I failed to mention that the CSX line through Salem, IN used to be the old Monon, and that the color of the old L&N "Box" was old L&N blue. Paul Hillman

A few months ago someone posted all of the G-scale, "scales", with respect to G-gauge track. I lost reference to that post. Could someone please re-refer the scales/gauge data. Thanks, Paul Hillman

Tony, and all, At first this may seem "off-topic" for this group,...but since you mention "railroad music",...did you know that Merle Haggard, the famous country-music singer, is a big railroad-fan, b

I have an HO wood/metal ATSF boxcar that I built about 20 years ago, from a kit. I don't remember the manufacturer, but could it have been something like "Suncoast Models". It was advertised back then

Richard, I thought it might have been "Suncoast" but I wasn't sure. Wonder what ever happened to them? The reason I put BX3(?), [with the question mark], was because of wanting to know about the dimen

Richard Hendrickson wrote: The definitive reference on Santa Fe box cars is John Richard, I went to the SFRH&MS and apparently the book is sold out, OR, ALL of their books are sold out, OR, their page

ALL of book billing and **************************************************************** Jon, Well, I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but when I click on "Add to cart", a page comes up saying, "You c

Wow!! Hello-world!! Gee,...... I guess I'm not as smart as I thought after all!!! I don't shop that much over the Net, but yeah, that makes sense. Thanks for the help. I'll try again. Paul Hillman

With all of the "strange" car/engine/train stories, it reminded me of one incident that I overheard a railroad engineer telling another engineer of what happened to his train. This was a few years bac

Anyone know of any photos/info for C&WI freight cars? I grew up along the C&WI tracks in Chicago and remember seeing about a 36ft wooden gondola, with either drop-bottom floors, or hinged side-doors.

Durn,....sounds like that could be the car. I went to the IRM page and found it in their freight car roster. No picture though. Built by, Haskell & Barber, 1913, 40ft, Wood Side Dump Gondola, #1185. N

wrote: and found it in their freight car roster. No picture though. Built by, Haskell & Barber, 1913, 40ft, Wood Side Dump Gondola, #1185. *************************************************************

Schuyler, That's a pretty unusual roster. 6 Ice Cars, 11 Passenger cars, and 600 gondolas. By the description, "H&B Ballast" would be "Haskell & Barker"? Where does one get ORER's? I may still have a

Atlas is producing more and more "O" freight cars, like USRA boxes & gons, etc. What scale are these cars being built to? 1-1/4" scale bodies w/7mm scale-gauged trucks? 2-7mm bodies & 7mm scale-gauged

Ben Hom wrote; ",the handbrake detail on the B end was wiped out by a ham-handed moron." I like that Ben!!! a, "ham-handed moron" !!! Reminds me of an old model railroad friend Roger. I was about 15 a

Tyler, Labelle Woodworking has HO & O wooden combine kits, plus freight cars. www.labellemodels.com Paul Hillman

Before Mike gets mad about an OT passenger car subject;.........since combination-cars carried LCL, etc., freight, wouldn't they be considered as being, at least, a pseudo freight-car? Paul Hillman

OK Mike, I should have used the word "concerned" instead of "mad". But,.........glad about your Admin.-decision. Paul Hillman

What's curious to me is, after the last few years of all these greatly done RTR efforts and special issues of these various manufacturers, all of a sudden a sell-out/merger is necessary. Did the tooli