Photo of DL&W 46929 is attached ....Mike

Coming to this party late, but none of this series of cars were rebuilt by DL&W. They were retired as wood-bodied cars. This series had Youngstown doors. The F&C resin model for these cars is quite fa

In the 19th Century and the early part of the 20th the west end of the Lackawanna railroad was Green Bay, Wisconsin. DL&W president Sam Sloan was also president or an officer of nearly 30 other railro

Most of the DL&W boxcars with those boxes on the roof are lettered as "PAINTERS CARS" for maintaining everything from depots to bridges to signs or anything along the right-of-way. These cars regularl

On many roads a star on the door or near the number on a baggage or express car would signify that the car was equipped for a messenger, and that someone may be on board. We don't know the story behin

-----Original Message----- From: mguill1224@... [STMFC] To: STMFC Sent: Tue, Jul 12, 2016 11:01 pm Subject: [STMFC] Pennsy HO brass models for sale A list of 97 HO-scale Pennsylvania Railroad bras

Looks very Mather-like to me, which should narrow it down quite a bit. The letterboards aren't familiar, though I haven't had my head into stock cars in a while. ....Mike Del Vecchio

The tossing of hot rivets was a big part of the steam era, and one that the public doesn't appreciate today since few things are riveted. Here's a clip showing Rosie the Riveters doing the task: https

I'm generally in the one-piece-body camp. But if the kit is intended to represent a prototype that had roof and end variants and those parts could made separate to permit the modeler some options, the

Generally speaking the use of Railroad in a corporate name was an American term, and Railway was British. Canada, of course, followed British tradition. The incunables of railroading tended to use the

I had purchased parts from him over the years and thought highly of the dealings. I'll look differently at those models from now on. He was a credit to the hobby. I'm sure his family will have a hard

-----Original Message----- From: Ray Breyer rtbsvrr69@... [STMFC] To: STMFC Sent: Fri, Nov 20, 2015 10:13 am Subject: Re: [STMFC] Re: Prototype info for the new Accurail box car Bill Welch wrote

So much more of this must have went on than we realize. I see it today in our world of wayside scanners, railtrac computers and a bevy of expeditors following every move. We've received other company'

I didn't see it announced here that we lost Andy Sperandeo. Very sad news. As the former-editor of Model Railroader and a prolific writer about model railroading, he was very active even after his ret

The LS&BC caper was talked about by railroad managers for decades. Small world: A Conrail official I worked with was the PennCentral trainmaster at the time who discovered a long string of these cars

Generally the number of cabooses was determined by the number of jobs, plus a safety factor for out-of-service and non-revenue cars. When cabooses were required, each job that left yard limits had to

How about a lazy susan? This one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Multipurpose-10-Rotating-Turntable-Lazy-Susan-220-lbs-360-Swivel-Home-Kitchen-/301426740816?hash=item462e6f0e50 has grooves that will help hol

Roofage was brown; Glidden No.204 standard brown according to the bill of materials records via Ed Hawkins. IMWX offered the DL&W cars in the as-delivered 49000-series. I have a couple of sets of each

The ends on this series of car were brown. The black ends didn't start until the 54000-series. The running boards should be wood. The years 1953-1955 were squarely in the Phoebe Snow billboard era and

Lackawanna did, with flat roofs and square hatches, the additional slope sheets riveted much like those in the photo of the New York Central car in the link below. Since most of these conversions on m