I concur. I met John the year I lived in Pasadena. I am not sure if this was ever noted on this list but Paige Porter was another person very well informed on railroading in Mexico. He gave one of the

Although the caption characterizes these as barrels, they are really more like cylindrical crates with slates to promote contact with cool air. I have accumulated several resources related to various

Yes, I plan to thoroughly overwhelm and bore people with information about the produce shipping containers, various methods of loading them into freight refrigerator cars, and the colourful labels app

For those coming to Cocoa this weekend, I encourage you to catch Mark Vaughn's clinic. It was one of the best at Naperville. Bill Welch

Dear Don:: I will be seeing someone this weekend who is a Southern RR freight car person and I will ask him. I have two photos of these cars as well, but with identical details and I think they were G

A couple of years ago at Naperville, I purchased some trucks from "Sunshine" labeled Dalman One Level. I don't know if Martin offers these through the mail. He said these were imported years ago by so

In my research into FGE, I have accumulated ads, photos and other resources regarding FGE experimentation with the Waukesha system. Part of the problem was they had so much stuff hanging on the unders

The InterMountain kit is based on FGE/WFE rebuilds after 1948 from cars with 8 inch sills, originally built beginning in 1926. The car in the photo you are referring to is from the FGE design built fr

I have been loaned a copy of a Fruit Growers Express Co. "Icing, Ventilation and Heater Service Record Book" dated May 16-June 2, 1950 and recording the cars iced on the ACL at their Sanford Fla. icin

I guess this maybe plausible but there are entrees for SFRD. I have not had time to check the car numbers however. The RD #'s are 14425, 3535, 8681, 14296, 9459, 31979, 7549. 10385, 31100, 15211 Bill

The decals come with the aforementioned Sunshine Models kit. Bill Welch

Mystery (to me) solved! Thanks Richard and Brian Bill Welch

Paul, to be prototypically correct, should not these hoses be connected to each other when cars are coupled to each other? Bill Welch

From March thru June of 2005 Mainline Modeler ran a series on scratch building a SS Virginian boxcar. I missed all of these except the last issue as my hobby shop at the time was having some sort of d

I think it is really guess work in terms of the actual end color but drawings I have seen call it brown. I go with a reddish brown on my models. I believe I have an end shot of one of the "HI" and wil

Thanks to those that responded to my request for help. These were interesting cars very similar to many of their era yet with some unique features, not to mention their bold stenciling. I don't think

I also missed many issues of RailModel Journal issues due to inconsistent hobby shop deliveries and have some questions about missed articles. The March 2007 issue of RMJ had an article entitled somet

The March 2010 Issue #31 of "Model Freightways" which deals with modeling trucks and trailers has an article by Mont Switzer on Trailers on Flat Cars and other truck models. A link to MF can be found

Trucks were not carried in reefers but trucks unloaded into reefers and were loaded from reefers. Oh you were making a joke Scott. Bill Welch

I would ask the publisher thru the link. Bill Welch