Hello- Found on the cover, a photo on Ted Cullota's book "Focus on the Freight car, vol 10", of a 1935 photo of a West Coast gasoline company tank car. Cover picture was taken in Los Angeles. I had a

One more ride on the horse from me advising the use of the Branchline Models' Yardmaster '37 AAR kit; its use for a Chad Buckeye end. Unlike the other two formerly easily available '37 AAR box car kit

In 1928, the Barnsdall-Rio Grande Oil Co. built an iconic gas station on the edge of their site of the very profitable Ellwood Beach oil field. Their colorful RGOX tank car, featured on the cover of "

Maybe 4096? ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Chris Barkan <cplbarkan@...> I am thinking it looks like 4085. See enhanced photo attached.

I saw that the image was somehow dropped out of my message.Try this again. On Friday, May 7, 2021, 8:15:53 AM PDT, Andy Carlson <midcentury@...> wrote: Maybe this has been shared before, but

Maybe this has been shared before, but a color shot of a framed type X tank car in LA's Taylor yard deserves some re-viewing. WCHX 4095 with AB brakes, believed to be circa 1958. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

As Tony stated, "......rebuilding on most railroads faded away after 1948." A notable exception was the Great Northern--whose large rebuilding programs came to be with a warp speed after the early 195

The sheer knowledge, accompanied with huge willingness to help, makes this io group especially great. Our own truck specialist, Brian Leppert helped me years ago quickly ID the two most common post wa

A good way to jump into the resin casting pond is to go to an auto parts store and purchase JB Weld original epoxy and a tube of Loctite, Permatex or other high temperature 1200 degree exhaust gasket

Oakview, California is pronounced 'Oak View' Fresno California is pronounced 'Fres No' What a wacky state this is! -Andy Carlson Ojai, CA Pronounced 'O-hi' _._,_._,_

How long has it been since we heard from Mike Brock? -Andy Carlson Ojai CA On Monday, April 19, 2021, 10:08:59 AM PDT, Benjamin Hom <b.hom@...> wrote: Nelson Moyer wrote: "It must be a pretty slow

Looks like N&W 95762 to me. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA On Monday, April 12, 2021, 1:23:19 PM PDT, Claus Schlund \(HGM\) <claus@...> wrote: Hi List Members, We get a nice view of N&W coal hau

Years ago, when prolific author to model magazines, Jim Six, offered detailing diesel locomotive articles he was a huge advocate for AccuPaint painting. I was influenced and based largely on his recs.

Bill- The comperisons of inside folding stake pockets with Wine tie-down straps show that they are not very similar in appearance. They both are close to the same size, but are very much different. Th

From research done years ago I seem to remember these being supplied by the Wine company. 1/2" round bar bent into a loop and the distal ends were bent out to about a 30 degree angle which separated t

And that fuel terminal survives to at least 2 years ago when I visited the town. Tracks have been gone for quite a while, not going beyond the Sierra Pacific lumber mill which still feeds lumber by ra

Schuyler asked about the stock car kit Jim Hayes had partially assembled. It is a 55xxx series of GN, rebuilt from a box car, stock car done in 1958. These were the only 40' GN stock cars with steel d

Before his passing, Jim Hayes sent me a picture of a kit he purchased from me decades ago. It is a GN 1958 built stock car, rebuilt from GN's 31000 series of 40' Z-bar Pratt truss SS box cars. GN conv

Hello- I found the cover photo on Ted Cullota's "Focus on the Freight car, vol 10", of a 1936 photo of a West Coast gasoline company tank car very sentimental. My interest in this company relates to h

Thanks Dave and Steve. This info works very well for me. Another great example of the shared help available from this fine list. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA