Tom, The 1910 era 4 foot herald was discontinued in 1921 in favor of a 3 foot herald. These heralds used the thinner extended serif font similar to Bookman Old Style seen throughout the depression and

Attached is an aerial showing the SP lumber dock in 1939. John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696

Not quite. The SP lumber dock was on the south side of the steel bridge, in the approximate location of the Kevin J Duckworth Memorial Dock. The SP lumber dock is reference 51 on Sheet Two on the 1940

Jared, Are these still available? 4 MDC black plastic Santa Fe 12,000 gallon tender shells $20.00 1 Walthers tank car loading rack $10.00 2 Central Valley #1600 fences and ladders $7.00 2 Walthers pip

Bruce, The TEM's Railway Accounting Code was 754 and 33 of their 149 stations had agents and their remainder were prepay only for receiving freight. At Trout Mills Ont. Wm. Milne & Sons was the only c

Eric, Remember those hot, muggy days of summer when you walked out of the air conditioned house and your glasses fogged? The same may have happened when you brought the 50 degree models into the 70+ h

Bob, Nice find. 126439 was built by American Car & Foundry, and if the car behind is 126158, it was too. But I can't quite make out if the third digit is a 6 or an 8. If the latter, 128158 was built b

And the XM-25-26 series is the first entry in the CB&Q listing on page 557 of the Jan 1943 ORER reprint. It list the same dimensions for height of running board and extreme height as the folio diagram

I am conducting a clinic at this summer's Santa Fe convention on how to build the Santa Fe's Duryea underframe box cars and am in need of one of Ted's P125 mini kits for use on a Bx-27 model. If one o

While just beyond my 1944 modelling era, the line of condemned Alton 17xxx steel underframe DS boxes is relevant for me as the 17000-17998 40' IL , 8' IH 2730 CUFT boxes wer just over half of the Alto

Bill, In a word, YES! The Westerfield kits, nice as they are, represent the original configuration and the 10'6 IH raised roof (12" extension). There is no represntation of the approximately 1000 Bx-1

Steve, Tony, Since the Rock and SP proper only had the single interchange point which happened to be at Tucumcari writing the routing as RI-SP was also unambigous, at least as long as the T&NO was abo

Brian, Congrats on bringing a family photo into 3D! It's very cool that you could personalize part of your modelling with a bit of family history. I may plagarize your efforts a bit and redirect a shi

A positive example of "You Break It, You Own It!" John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696

Inspirational Paul! What decals did you use? John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696

Bob, The Oct 44 ORER lists NBCX assigned to National Car Co. John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696

Indian Red Way Cars are mid-decade in the future (1966) for those modified with cushion underframes on the Santa Fe. 1974 saw the demise of Mineral Brown in favor of Indian Red on the remaining way ca

Garth, The cars at Hills Bros are in fact on a State Belt spur served from the south as you surmised. The Santa Fe Spear St yard was behind the Marine building with a Santa Fe owned spur running on th

That is WP's San Francisco yard & team tracks. See the attached Google Earth image. Green track = WP, red = SP, yellow = joint ATSF/SP. John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lov

Bob, Those are Fe-U 50' SS Automobile cars. Within a couple years of this photo, the 500 cars had their left hand doors sealed converting them to single door box cars. When initially converted, the on