Thanks for the heads up on the article in MR. This is the first MR I've found a reason to purchase in awhile. I hope they do some more detailed articles like this on preserved steam era cars. The sect

Don, I recieved this answer from Ted Doyle who is very familier with Springhill ---- Springhill coal was shipped by both rail and sea. There was a short line railroad (Cumberland Country Railway and C

Thank you Mike. I'm here because I do model steam era. Charlie

Jace, I checked my old decal Champ and Walthers diagrams. MP 7126 is the Champ MP gondola lettering set. So doubt any real prototype info was used in building this model. The car sounds like it will b

A guess of course, but possibly from running through self-guiding frogs. Charlie

He was certainly risking serious injury. Gondola loads do shift suddenly. Charlie

I generally use a dental burr to drill a hole sideways in a frame member if I could not drill before assembly (or just forgot). Charlie

I only get a "Not Found" message with this url. Charlie

John, Is the B&O boxcar available now? I do not find any mention of it on the SCMW web pages. Charlie

Well A.T., don't keep it a secret! Where did Pappa Ben's move to? Charlie

There are some great yard trackwork photos in that series. I was particularly fascinated by the three way point switch. What a fun project to build in 1/48 scale. Charlie

I've been in Bisbee and it definitely is not Bisbee, AZ. If the Arizona part is correct, perhaps it is Phoenix. Charlie

One wonders what the Ford Motor Co. was going to do with such logs in New Jersey? In 1929? Charlie

While at lunch yesterday, I noticed the restaurant had a large print of one of Link's? famous N&W night photos on the wall. This is the one taken from a drive-in movie theater of a N&W articulated cro

I guess the rule of thumb would be 'if it can be fit through the door, it was shipped in a boxcar at one time or another'. Excluding uncontainerized liquids of course. Charlie

I wonder how much the invention of the aluminum beer and soda pop can short circuited the aluminum industry's need to promote aluminum railroad cars. Charlie

And SP Overnight boxcars. Charlie

Tony, And I, for one at least, really do appreciate that extra step in your book. Awaiting the tank car book, Charlie

You can airbrush spray the solvent based paints like Floquil directly on styrene. I've been doing that for several decades. Just don't try to use a hand paint brush for a solvent paint without an unde

I used the MicroMark ink jet decal set to make a herald for a boxcar. I printed a black ink design onto the white decal sheet to make the heralds. It worked quite well. Note that a different decal pap