OK kids, lets try "freight car" as a search term. Way cool!! Ed Edward Sutorik

Also of note is the use of brass rail on some of the through tracks. I'm thankful that I still have some brass flex-track tucked away, though it's sadly Code 100. Maybe I could make up a jig and mill

In comparing the itty bitty pictures on the website with photos of the B&O and NYC cars, it looks to me that the drawing is closer to an NYC car. I'm basing this on the size of the triangular void vis

1956, or maybe 1958. That's when the GN put together their first 40' plug/slide boxcars. The 1956 date is supposed to be a group of only three cars. The 1958 date is for a larger batch. The cars were

I do not believe IM has done a 12 panel car in mineral with EB lettering. If you wanted to do one, Microscale supplies the lettering in their set 87-185. Champ used to have it in set HB-308 which appe

Regarding the problem of truck mounting screws removing themselves: I am a big fan of what I call the "Athearn" truck mounting system, where there is a sleeve for the mounting screw to snug up to (sor

GREAT picture! I see over on the left one of the GN boxcars with the orange sides. Neat! And over on the left is an SAL 40' double door box (see Red Caboose). And that's just the start..... Ed Edward

No, Ed, it's on the right(ish). I guess the foam got to my brain. Ed Edward Sutorik

And ohmugawd, there's some kind of boxcab diesel switcher behind the curved building over on the left. At least, I think so. What else could it be? Certainly not a steam era freight car, I'll wager. S

In the rightmost photo that Dave Evans sited, there's what appears to me to be a pretty strange car. It's three cars from the left side and about 3 tracks from the rear--in front of the white-sided re

In the same photo, other cars of possible interest: a "50'" Santa Fe reefer peaked end hoppers from both C&O and N&W Virginian coal GONS (I think) and the easy one, a wood express reefer Ed Edward Sut

OMI made models of both the regular Canton GN hoppers and the ones that were modified with a steeper slope sheet (73700-73764). I am wondering if anyone knows what GN used the modified cars for. Ed Ed

It looks like there would be some stunningly increased loadings on the axle bearings when this truck experienced lateral forces in curves. One could also wonder how often a railroad worker would crawl

Also of interest is that the high angle photo of one corner of a car shows wire grabs, while the full-model photos show cast-on grabs. One can be charitable and conclude that they still have some deci

Explanation: I'm really un-fond of cast on grabs/ladders. Ed Edward Sutorik

I called up Life Like to rag on them when they came out with the BN U28B and put on black handrails. I don't recall the "higher-ups" name, but he said he regretted not knowing very much about the west

A fantastic book in a fantastic series! Mr. Hendrickson, on page 102, wonders why the class LG-3 car didn't work out. I note that the previous class LG-2's (and LG-4's) were designed for crane unloadi

The wood decks on my Red Caboose SP flats seem to be removing themselves, so perhaps it will not be a big problem. Ed Edward Sutorik

I just checked the edges of some Evergreen strips from .010 to .250 and found tooth marks on all of them. Ed

On the prototypes, the triangular cutouts in the sides of the bulkhead supports are smaller on the B&O car than the NYC--the bottom of the triangle is higher. I called Intermountain and asked which th