I seem to have less gray matter RAM allocated to freight car info these days, but wasn't the Kurtz-Kraft PS-1 kit a 10'-0" height car? If not, it would be easy to cut down, with its flat molded constr

Group, There's a discussion of PRR R50a and R50b reefers going on at the milktrains Yahoo group. If anyone has suggestions on building an R50a, you might want to join the fray. Walt Lankenau

I don't know where this thread started, but... The lack of mechanical acumen among the general population today is staggering. I once worked in a photo studio, where we were building a set. I handed a

Geez, I was afraid this would happen... So, anybody heard any news on the New England Rail Service Fowler boxcar kit? I'm looking forward to it, since the Proto 1000 model was a little disappointing.

Recalling a thread about what cars could be seen on which railroad (specifically N&W hoppers on Sherman Hill, IIRC), there's a diesel era (sorry) shot posted today on Trainorders showing an N&W twin f

the Central The "Maine Central" traffic could have been Nova Scotia coal going to Maine paper mills. Now, I wonder if it was an all-rail routing (CN Nova Scotia to CP St. John to MEC Mattawamkeag) or

Not to mention the corrosion of bridges! Walt Lankenau

That would probably represent, for example, CN, AC, BCE, PGE and other "foreign" cars on, say, CPR. In other words, cars from Canadian roads other than the home road in question. Interesting stats! Wa

On the Claremont & Concord in New Hampshire, a former electric railway, due to tight curvature a 50-foot boxcar could not be placed in the Coy Paper Co. spur unless the knuckles were removed from the

The caption accompanying the locomotive photo says 1941, at Millburn, NJ. Anybody care to speculate on the milk car colors? I wasn't aware that they used outlined lettering. Walt Lankenau

Judging by the responses to your question so far, the answer is "no." Might be time to buy a few sets, do some experimentation, and let us know your findings. Walt Lankenau

I don't think these date from the steam era, but Sandersville, Southern, and Seaboard Coast Line had roof-hatch boxcars for kaolin service. In the steam era, I think the D&H converted some USRA single

If a desktop scanner is used, there is usually no need to remove the slide from the mount, unless possibly the subject is cropped so tightly that the mount covers part of it. However, if a drum scanne

I have some nicely detailed rigid frame 5-ft wb archbars that I believe came off an old AHM car. Something similar is available from IHC. They're well detailed and cheap! Walt Lankenau

That's probably because the url was split into three lines; cut and paste everything from "www" through "jpg". It worked for me. Walt Lankenau

IIRC, the Central Valley Northern Pacific stock car model has a lumber door in the "A" end. Walt Lankenau

Right. Paper is forever! (Almost.) Walt Lankenau

(Armour) on ebay. The PCX cars are too new for me I have seen pix of similar Armour steel cars with ARLX, I think, reporting marks, numbered in the 1-999 (?) series. (It's been a while and I don't hav

Ah, now THAT's interesting. . . I plan to model the CPR Vermont lines in the 1949-54 era. There was an Armour plant on the B&M in Woodsville, NH, and CPR southbounds often had an Armour reefer on the