Bob, The "covered structure" is likely a dump trestle for domestic heating coal, something a lot of lumber dealers also sold. I recently photographed a similar uncovered structure at the Montpelier ma

Kevin, I have good photocopies of Extra 2200 South Issues 51 and 52, and can scan the pages with the plans for whatever phases you need. I cannot guarantee they will be in perfect scale, but you shoul

Friends, Kadee is offering a custom decal service: https://www.kadee.com/custom.htm . I have not tried their decals and so cannot comment on their quality. They also offer blank decal paper: https://w

Friends, Back in June when I last ordered from Kadee there was a teaser on their web site saying a new type of car would be announced, I think, at the St. Louis RPM. I've been searching their site, an

Dan, Ah, fussy trucks! I had one of the metal cranes picked up second-hand as a youngster. It had some non-sprung metal trucks, which I now gather might have been a substitution. They were always loos

Dan, Ah, fussy trucks! I had one of the metal cranes picked up second-hand as a youngster. It had some non-sprung metal trucks, which I now gather might have been a substitution. They were always loos

Friends, Attached are two photos of WP 37, as steam and as diesel, plus two of the SP's Roseville wrecker (the whole train was painted in faux-Daylight colors). The B&W shot of 37 is from my collectio

Eric, Is this a Pullman lightweight car? Yours Aye, Garth Groff

Don, F&C did the Buckeye end, but only on their Erie milk car. AFAIK, this car was also based on the ARA 1932 design. I have a pair of the milk cars which I bought to use on another layout concept, an

Friends, Here's the Atlas list again, with car block numbers. The D&H cars were all welded, so they have been removed. Note that only one of the three WM blocks matches Style 1 (and the tabs over the

Don, Indeed, according to Ed Hawkins' and Ted Culotta's list all four blocks of the D&H cars had welded sides. These were built by the D&H itself, the first block at Oneonta and the remainder at Green

Curt, Yes, WM did have Duryea underframes. I ignored this on purpose, since were were only talking about body styles. CP was not on the list because their cars had a radial Murphy roof, something Atla

Steve, Don't know. But like I said, these cars seem to be "more-or-less" correct for the indicated prototypes, which outside of resin is probably the best we're going to get. Yours Aye, Garth Groff

Friends, It is time for a new printer. I have pretty much settled on an HP Laser Jet Pro M254dw, which according to the Ghost White web site is compatible with the white toner M254. Do any of you have

Friends, I did some work matching between Ed Hawkins' list from the old Steam-Era Freight Car pages ( http://www.steamerafreightcars.com/prototype/frtcars/1932aramain.html ) and the Atlas body list Do

Don, Thanks. Your list is excellent, but I was hoping to find out which roads had various body types. I suppose I could match your list with the list on STMFC, but that looks like it would be a projec

Bill and Friends, I see that Atlas will be offering their ARA 1932 boxcar in an undecorated in "Body Style 2" (with the flat plate ends). This is essentially correct for the Seaboard class B-6, though

Reuben, Our local Barnes & Noble still carries RMC, NG&SL GAZETTE, MR, HORNBY MAGAZINE and MODEL RAIL. Given that the two British pubs seem to be a month or so out of date, I suspect we get the unsold

Armand, KCS 21001-21300 (AC&F, 4-56) with 8' doors and 4/3/1 late Dreadnaught ends can be done with the Front Range or later Atlas(?) models. A builder's photo was in Ed Hawkins' article in the April

Friends, Note that the Dalman Andrews truck has two different styles of journal box covers, one clearly marked "National". Yours Aye, Garth Groff