Mel Perry wrote: "that BR&P [gon] can't still be in active service?" https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt%3A715.122961.CP/viewer Why not? The photo is dated 1912, and you can make out

Claus Schlund asked: "In the image linked below, I can see a partial view of a double sheathed boxcar with a herald. Reading it as well as I can, it seems to be proclaiming CH&D&PM SYSTEM GREAT CENTRA

Scott McDonald wrote: "Any guesses on the car behind the locomotive? Possibly a wagontop of some sorts?" https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt%3A715.4369051.CP No. The car has icing hat

Charlie Duckworth wrote: "I just received two of Chad Boas MP flatcar kits. What methods are you all using to add weight so a flatcar can be run as an empty?" Plan ahead. Figure out what will and won'

David Payne asked: "A friend asked the subject question and rather than speculate, I thought I'd ask here." Assuming the question concerns double door boxcars, it's to facilitate getting a long load i

Charlie Vlk wrote: "All of them wrong way, left hand, southpaw doors!!!" Tens of thousands of left-opening door boxcars on the PRR. Maybe it's YOUR railroad with doors that open the wrong way. Ben Hom

Marty Cooper wrote: "Any one who has been a model railroader for only a short time will have knocked over a 2 ounce bottle or left the cap off the pint bottle of solvent. Plan for the worst, hope for

Bruce Smith asked: "Shouldn't a USRA undergrad have a deep fishbelly center sill? The Tichy is straight." Yes for the DS car, but the SS cars have straight center sills. They are not the same. Ben Hom

Claus Schlund wrote: "Zoom in to check out SP 66094, a truss rod box car. Appears to have ‘wrong way’ doors, opening to the left. https://oregondigital.org/catalog/oregondigital:df71zw41m PRR and PRR-

Don Valentine asked: "Speaking of watermelon cars did someone other than Sunshine Models offer an ACL Class O-17 as an HO kit? I've not had much luck finding one at a 'reasonable' price from an source

Paul Doggett asked: "Do any one know when the T&P changed their 40000 series boxcars from Youngstown doors [to] the Superior type doors...?" The Hawkins 1937 AAR boxcar spreadsheet (which you need to

Schuyler Larrabee asked: "Looking for confirmation: Are those X29s?" https://digital.library.temple.edu/digital/collection/p15037coll3/id/49797/rec/1204 Yes. The X29 class marking can be clearly seen

Ray Hutchison asked: "This has been hit or miss on ebay, and difficult to get things from local hobby shop. I am looking for a good source for both wood and styrene car roofs, sides, ends, and bottom

I wrote: "HO scale kits from Funaro (resin) and Rail Shop Models (styrene); the Bowser model is Class H30A but can be used as a stand-in if you don't want to deal with a resin kit or find an out-of-pr

Clark Propst asked: "There are some CGW train list sheets laying next to the computer. My wife is transcribing them to an excel sheet. I noticed empty PRR covered hopper 254288 headed from Randolph Mi

Les Sittler asked: "May I ask if the sources you quote are available, i.e . the Richard Hendrickson articles and the Ed Hawkins spreadsheets?" The Hawkins spreadsheets can be found here: http://www.st

Ed Sutorik asked: "I'm having trouble seeing where the Atlas rebuilt USRA cars are wrong for the SL-SF 127000-130499 cars. They look to match in the photos. What am I missing?" The Atlas models with M

Ken Adams wrote: "Accurail has announced this. As I am a sucker for double door 40 foot box cars and know little about what is accurate for eastern railroads, I am asking if this is too much a foobie

Bill Pardie wrote: "That was the first and last time that I took a model to an event." Well, that's a true shame. Ben Hom

Richard Townsend asked: "Does anyone know of a source for HO decals for UP stock cars, late 1950s, yellow lettering on red car, gothic face?" Microscale 87-512. http://www.microscale.com/Merchant2/mer