Rob, Folks, The handout from my clinic was already in the FILES section. I have created a folder entitled "Weathering techniques" that includes both the presentation (featuring Brianna, age 5 at the t

Dave, Folks, Lots of people have chimed in, but now, as the son of one the three most senior research scientists at Eastman Kodak, who spent 90% of his career working on film dyes, let me address this

Elden sez: "Kodachrome…..they are the only slides I took that looked like the real thing." Actually, Elden, they are the only slides that look like your MEMORY of the real thing 😉. Memory is a notorio

Rob, As you may remember, I model 1944, so Delano’s photos are a very important resource for me. Like Bill, I have spent some time following the works of military modelers and continue to do so to try

Tim, We've talked about a number of times, It is called Vee center Vee. The board are milled so that there is both a vee at the joint and a vee in center of the board. Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn,AL

Garth, Folks, In addition to the AAR/ARA loading books, I have found that an excellent source of equipment loading diagrams for military equipment are the technical manuals. There is usually a railroa

Ken, Got that, but... the mounts in question are naval twin 40s. And the car is a well-flat. Supposedly, the PRR's fleet of these cars was used to specifically move these mounts. None of the diagrams

Also some pretty nice 40 mm bofors in HO on Shapeways. I have 2 dual mounts for loading on a PRR F37 flat car, if I could only find a diagram/photo to guide my blocking and tie downs! Regards, Bruce S

Charlie, After extensive review (over lunch, looking at some photos), the PRR's top scale codes are: Hands down winners, as in the VAST majority of cars show these three (Which makes sense, given the

Richard, 3 radial course. There is only one longitudinal course, the bottom one. This is typical radial course tank car construction. For example, the same is true of the 1917 GATC 5-radial course tan

Yeah, one of the drawbacks of the Champ sheets is that the style of the letters and numbers does not match some of the newer, finer, decal efforts. But it is way better than nothing. I have thought ab

Champ decals did this. They subdivided the railroads by region, and then provided reweigh codes for each railroad. They also provided a separate sheet of reweigh dates. Get Outlook for Android

Ray, I'm curious to know what you think was applied to those food crops, to help them grow, in that era? It was probably the same thing you would find inside those stock cars! Regards, Bruce Smith Aub

Bill, It's mostly an early thing, and allowed the stock to be fed and watered from the roof. It mostly went away when the stock transportation rules began to require resting stock after so many hours,

We now take you to Buford, Wyoming. Two “men of the road” are sitting at their campfire arguing about this car, as it was set out by a freight on a siding for a bad bearing around a week ago. Fortunat

Folks, The PRR T&HS is planning a virtual PRR Day on November 7, 2020, through zoom, rather than traveling for an in-person meeting. Thanks to Auburn University, we will be able to host presentations

David, What are spotting characteristics for this car? I would have called it just about anything but AC&F! 😉 Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Tony, I've thought about it. It wouldn't be hard, except for the lettering. Two obstacles. One is the assigned location being Jersey City and not knowing where it might travel to get there from the ic

Tony, Neat car, and I like the back story of why an ATSF car would be on the SP! One of my favorite ice service cars is shown in PRR Color Guide (1). While it is incorrectly noted as an "RB23" and wor

Why on earth would I ignore the flat car? It is PFW&CRW 931651, class FM, which will eventually be incorporated into the PRR's fleet. What a great load too! The boxcars are both class XL, lettered PEN