No. Americans don't write dates that way. It is month, day, year. So February it is. Not to mention it is obviously COLD, due to the ice on several cars. I will also note, as others have done, that Ph

Bill, No offense, but have you been sniffing too much solvent-based paint? 🙂! Wood and plastic are (obviously) very different materials and so require different approaches. Plastic looks like plastic.

Bill, Yes, the car drawing was published in the car builder's cyc at some point. Here it is. Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Claus, Why that is almost certainly the PRR FD2 “Queen Mary” flat car #470245. Give that it was built to haul loads specifically for Westinghouse, she was usually stored on Westinghouse’s property in

Folks, The Spring, 2021 issue (#116) of The Keystone Modeler is now available on the NEW PRRT&HS web site. To get there, simply click on www.prrths.org/tkm To download the issue, as well as several pa

Mike, My general impression of the transition in the coupler mechanism of the X29 was that the Carmer uncoupling device was considered to be less safe that the bottom-operated rod style. While not be

Bob, I have a few different interpretations: 1) the bag hanging from the roof is a balance for a drop gate to access the bed of the truck. 2) the material in the dump cart, being dumped in the truck,

Oily black (I have PolyScale, which is OOP, but there are others) Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Phillip, Yes, you do need to be careful around grain. Grain dust is highly explosive so limiting dust and sparks are really very important. FWIW, I think 5 minutes to unpoad a 50' car is pretty fast c

Yes, And in the second view, you see a multi-dome wine tank car. Note that the "many" PRR arch roof boxcars consists of 2 X31F cars and then what appears to be a yard FULL of X32, 50' cars. To see so

Claus, Don’t trust captions. It would appear that the fire truck was being unloaded from a GTW boxcar, on the Union Pacific and no UP boxcars were involved. I highly doubt that the firetruck was drive

No, no extras in the kits I have. Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, Al

Bob, I would concur with others who have said that this not really an "extreme" weathering job. Rather it looks to me to be a hard-working steam era freight car nearing its appointment with the paint

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Clarence, Given that the photographer’s notes are “Grain elevators alongside piles of materials at port” I think you are spot on and the archive misinterpreted that to be piles of grain. Regards, Bruc

Kevin, Colin, The tow is likely made up with all lines tight. There are additional lines out of sight to the other barge and potentially from the stern quarter of the tug to the barges as well. The go

Richard, Among the welded 40’ steam era reefers described in the archives are a batch of FGE cars circa 1947 described by Bill Welch. Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> o

Phillip, You're a few decades too late. The pallet as we know it, along with the fork-lift, were invented in the 1920s. By 1925, the pallet included bottom planks. https://www.1001pallets.com/the-hist

Folks, During WWII, the F37 was used to carry US Nave 40 mm bofors anti-aircraft gun mounts. I have yet to find a photo (or loading diagram) of this load on one of these well-flats, so if any of you m

As would the people of MUN-row county New York, the location of the photo under discussion - See what I did there, brought it back to the actual subject 😉 Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Charlotte (pronounce Shar-LOT, not SHAR-let) was served by the New York Central. While not a direct connection to the shops in East Rochester, given that the steel mill has been shut down for some 20