Prototype Railroad Modeling Volume Two features a Bill Welch article that includes a picture of the steel frame, truss rods and trucks without the car body at page 63. Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Br

Tim, thank you very much! That is a rare picture of a car in this small class of hopper cars. Thank you David for the diagram of the cars. An order for kits will be going out for the New Year. Gary La

While Northern Pacific received no hopper cars from the USRA, it ordered 49 cloned designs in 1922 from Pressed Steel in the 70000-70048 series. These cars appear to have been camera shy and I have fo

The HV at the left top corner indicates, what Hocking Valley? Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

The truck springs are showing an empty car or one with a very light lading. There is enough space showing in the springs to be Kadee trucks! Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

Great find, Bill, thank you! Do we call it a “rebuilder end”? Here is the picture he referenced: https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/12296893056/in/photostream/ Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike

Thank very much Ed, your gracious assistance to all of us over the years is very much appreciated. There is a faded color picture dated September 21, 1957 of 30357 taken in Duluth, MN on page 11 of Ya

What is the build date on this boxcar and how tall is it: http://www.texaspacificrailway.org/rolling-stock/texas-and-pacific-railway-rolling-stock-30570-image-1158.html It appears to be tall enough to

Sorry, I thought that the picture on page 12 that really expands when you click it would appear. Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

From MRH: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/mrhpub.com/2018-11-nov/online/index.html What is the type of roof that is in the car closest the camera on the left side that has the rivets on the side of

Thanks, Jim. Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

The car on the left has a ventilator in the upper half of the end of the car: https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/12239518765/in/photostream/ Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

Bill Welch suggested a company that made bottles and caps about 2 years ago. I checked my supplies of bottles and caps and none had a label. Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

In the last picture, what is the gauge of the narrow gauge track, two foot? Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

Ajin, the builder, for Overland used an etched stainless steel for its poultry cars. Gary Laakso

All resonators owe you and the other leaders a large debt of gratitude for pushing us forward from the primordial past of early Atheran, Tyco and Train Miniature products. Thank you very much. Gary La

Maybe a sheet is needed for other resin vendors like Chad Boas, Protowest Scale Models, Jerry Hamsmith and others. Gary Laakso

LOL, you are right but they consist of 3 Milwaukees by Westerfield (only one with the inside detail), two different SLSF, NYC and PRR by Westerfield, and the Sunshine collection: MKT, CNW, PWV, C&O an

It is a real jewel, many, many hours of labor and thought before any work started. Your patience and planning show, congrats. It will look great coupled to the 36’ DRGW boxcars from Sunshine that I HA

Locomotive Quarterly Winter 1978/79 at page 69 features a picture of a T&P 4-6-2 pulling a 20 car train with the first car being a flat car (maybe a SP F-50- 10) with three drivers as the load. The dr