After reading previous messages and while searching for Louis Marre (U. of Dayton) on the web, I found this link to an obituary of Charles E Winters IV (see page 2 of the pdf) from the Fort Smith Hist

Just a suggestion -- Perhaps these 1/4" wide sanding sticks would be of interest for detail sanding. Reviews on the site are 4.5 out of 5. The 1/4" sanding belts - the loops are shifted to bring fresh

The photo RVN01407 that Al Brown mentions is posted at the Ronald Nixon Collection of the Museum of the Rockies, with the caption provided by Nixon, "Thought you might like a couple of unusual shots.

Clicking on the thumbnail at this link will give you an image of Gene Deimling's Lackawana caboose in Proto:48. http://lists.railfan.net/listthumb.cgi?erielack-10-12-08 Rufus Cone Bozeman, MT

Dear Frank, In case you do not have the Culotta "Tank Cars" book, page 65 shows NDX 608 which appears to be like the ACOX 5259 Semet Solvay Div Allied Chemical one we discussed yesterday. This one is

This was functioning as an auxiliary oil tender for the oil burning SP&S locomotive on this move across non-oil-burning NP territory (to or from NP Livingston shops, I believe). If it was an NP car, i

Cars were pulled up to the top of the coal dock with a steel cable. Rufus Cone Bozeman MT

Nice restoration job on the car, Richard. I remember seeing the car in 1986. Rufus Cone Bozeman, MT

Enhancing that photo and its neighbor (use left arrow), these appear to be X ��� UTLX 1836�� 6100 Gal��� 3-compartment X-3� UTLX 3841 � 6500 Gal��� 3-compartment Rufus Cone B

In Ron V. Nixon Collection Image Record - RVN07837 http://morphotoarchive.org/rvndb/rvnjpeg_img_rec.php?objno=RVN07837 Caption: "SP&S 701, 4-8-4, similar to NP Class A locomotives is shot at Paradise

Go to the equipment pages of the NPRHA website http://www.nprha.org/Pages/Equipment.aspx Select freight cars and go to the second page of box car diagrams (scroll down to the bottom of the first box c

1949 rwy. equip. register... The double-door car NP 38332 you ask about is from a series leased from AA Morrison beyond the STMFC period (1962) as shown on the NP Freight Equipment diagram #53. The di

I believe the NP cars with PS components to which Tim refers are shown here: http://www.nprha.org/NP%20Box%20Cars/Box%20Cars%2040%20Ft.%20Steel%20Sheathed%203000-3399.jpg General NP Freight Car Link:

Bill Welch wrote, asking about the modeling article: A separate earlier issue - Volume 6 #2 - of the NPRHA Mainstreeter magazine is available to anyone from the NPRHA company store as a reprint; it fe

Regarding the exceptional NPRHA set of decals for this model, I am told that "They have been reordered, but the lead time is not known"

The group built at the NP's Laurel Shops had an Apex brake. While equipment diagrams are not always definitive on details, the brake is shown in the sketch here in NP freight equipment diagram #122. (

Today, I was informed that the NPRHA decals for the Central Valley stock car model are back in stock at the NPRHA company store. http://www1.storehost.com/stores/xq/xfm/Store_id.615/page_id.17/qx/stor

The image of GATX 4121 reads ARA III AC&F 7-26 Anyone know of STMFC-era (say 1950-ish) copies or downloadable editions of Tank Car Capacities?

In the NPRHA's The Mainstreeter, Vol 8 No. 4, Fall 1989, I with Matt Herson covered the "Acquisition of Covered Hoppers" by the NP, using primary sources from the NPR corporate records at the Minnesot

All About Tank Cars published by Standard Car Construction Company, 1919, can be viewed here. http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc1.cu55808360;view=1up;seq=7 Downloads of more than one page at a