Friends, Quite a bit of military railroad equipment was distributed to museums across the country when declared surplus. Attached is what I remember as an ex-military car at the California State Railr

Jim, Relee was never incorporated, and is now part of Pentagon City. It would be interesting to see if Relee ever had a post office or a railroad station under that name. I would not be surprised if t

Tim, A more interesting statistic might be how many of Al's (and Martin's) kits were actually assembled, and how many still languish in various "unbuilt" piles. ;-) Yours Aye, Garth Groff

Ben, Thanks for the link to the N&W FE. Seems to fit the type nicely--12 stake pockets, nominal 40' deck. I wonder how Richard missed it? There were still about 200 of these in revenue service circa 1

Friends, Before this gets out of hand, could we stop this thread. Private opinions about people are supposed to be off-limits. Thank you. Garth Groff

Don, Agreed on the Ertl boxcars. Since there weren't many of these left in near-original condition by 1958, I confined myself to just two: one SP&S and a somewhat modified GN car. The flat cars are al

Doug and Ben, While most USRA DS boxcars rode on their original Andrews trucks until scrapped, a few did receive AAR sideframe trucks. There is a photo of TH&B 4612 on page 72 of the December 1997 RMC

Scott, It occurs to me that the Greenville 65' gondolas would likely have ends and drop doors similar to the Proto 2000 models. The Proto cars included two different drop doors, so these extras might

Ed and Ron, WP series 9001-9050 had 20 panels, five panels on the slope and all ribs extending to the sill. These were 1949 Greenville cars. Does this match up (I don't have one of the ECW kits to com

Friends, I have just added a new album to our pages for your enjoyment and approval. It is located at https://realstmfc.groups.io/g/main, on page 9 of the photos section as "Garth Groff's Photo Album

Tim Thanks for posting the photo. Those PAs are nice too. Coming back to my second photo, the end of one of what appears to be a General American car is to the left of the AC&F car. Note the two-level

Friends, Today the BBC has a photo feature on abandoned items. The 12th photo is a view of a turn-of-the-century UP side-door caboose in the desert at Rhyolite, Nevada: https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pic

Brad, I did a Google Map search with satellite view this morning for the Radio Island/Beaufort/Morehead City area. The Radio Island tank farm and ship unloading area are quite clear, as are the tracks

Friends, I just turned up another photo of the same car which more clearly shows the details, including the car number (DODX 12100). This car is from series (DODX 11635-12374) that Richard Hendrickson

Friends, If you've ever wondered where prototypes for the old Red Caboose tank car operated, look no further. The attached photo was taken circa 1983 in Beaufort, North Carolina on the Beaufort & More

Steve, To paraphrase Obi-Wan, "Are these the gondolas you seek?": http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/sout/sout52347agd.jpg Yours Aye, Garth Groff

Good Friends, While scanning up some of my old negatives, I chanced upon this view of the brake end of a flat car on the now-defunct New Hampshire & Vermont Railroad at Whitefield, NH. The Carmer cut

Friends, I actually have two airbrushes. I do have a regulator/moisture trap, if it works (from an estate sale), but no tank or compressor and really no place indoors to use same. I tried propellant,

Friends, A few days ago I saw a TV ad for the Luminess airbrush make-up system. This includes a cup-type airbrush and a small compressor for a list price of about $40: https://www.luminessair.com/Home

Don and friends, That definitely is the same car, or one in the same series if there were more. Is there more information about Pinsly's Travelers Express Company (other than Facebook, which I don't u