Could Mike Brock contact me off-list, please? Jim Ogden

I was under the impression that Magnolia was no longer painting their billboard lettering on cars in the early years of World War II and the cars that required painting during this period only got rep

Hi Ed, Are you providing the painting and lettering data to Branchline or Walthers? I figure the RPC data is probably considered public domain and will be used by both. Also, was there a lag between t

On the MoPac in the late 1970's, many of ART's bunkerless refrigerators (RBL's) in beer service (I think ARMX reporting marks) got freight car red paint just like the contemporary boxcars of the perio

I have their Southern bay window but haven't assembled it yet. It has a one piece body, an interior, and stainless steel etchings for a number of details such as ladders, a running board, and end supp

HI Group, I underastand Gary Wright is not limited to the deep south (athough I still hope he does some sort of L&N caboose or something for the "NC") before moving his focus out of those areas where

Hi Group, Before he caught narrow gauge fever, Charles Goodrich hand-measured a typical road caboose and tried to get Hallmark to produce one in the early eighties. I have two of the "short" drovers b

I would really like to see other equipment loads like a Ford 8N or 9N. I can even provide one for a manufacturer to measure, and I think the section aft of the engine is identical on the Ford Jubilee

I've had some problems with Testor's Dullcote yellowing on some plastic freight cars that have been in storage for about a year (I think the temperature has been over 100 F). Of course, it isn't that

I have heard it rumored for a number of years that the tooling for the Front Range four-bay ACF Centerflow covered hopper was initially done for either ACF or a leasing company with a lot of these car

According to Tom Stolte (Oddballs Decals), the owner of Herald King, a Mr. Miller died, and his son had absolutely no interest in continuing to produce the decal line. The son had no idea how much the

Hi Shawn, I went up to Lion Oil in El Dorado, AR to see if they had any company photos or information but found none. I also went to the Arkansas Oil and Brine musuem in Smackover and only found newsp

Hi Tim and Group, I believe the takeover of Warren Petroleum was some time in the early 1960's; I had an uncle working in management for Warren during that time period when Gulf took them over. Jim --

Hi Group, The T&P also used "marker paddles" since the kerosene marker lights kept disappearing. They quit using them in the 1960s after a disasterous accident and then went to electrical lamps. So wh

been used process) in photos? To those outside of sugar cane country, baggasse probably sounds a lot like results from a do-it-yourself liposuction on whose posterior resembles two VW beetles passing

Hi Group, Last year Martin Lofton was unable to attend the Oklahoma City Train Meet due to ice storms closing the roads in southwest Missouri. The sponsors of the show have evidently moved vendors who

trains I personally like some of the scenes in "This Property is Condemned"-- lots of early sixties 40' boxcars in Mississippi where it was filmed on location. It's not as bad as the 50' PS1's in "Bou

they Hi Ed, Like most early tractors, Ford's 9N and its successor the (virutally identical for modeling purposes) postwar 8N both had gasoline engines ( a newer model often had a lower number number i

Hi Steve; I think Chad Boas is not longer doing resin kits (which is a shame for me as well since I would have liked to have a couple of the bizarre IC "shortened height" hoppers he offered). Jim Ogde

I was wondering if there was a St. Louis area RPM meeting scheduled for late summer 2010. I know one was not held last year because of work conflicts for one of the organizers, John Golden. Jim Ogden