Thanks, Dennis, for proving that my memory still works pretty well even if nothing else does, like finger dexterity, eyes and such! (-: My best, Don Valentine

Were some of these D&MIR cars stitting around in a yard at Duluth, MN in August of 1987? I seem to recall seeing some single sheathed and double sheathed cars there at that time and possibly a reefer

My feelings echo Fenton's, Dick. Had a wood model of one of these once in O scale when I used to operate on a friend's O scale pike every Friday night. Eventually gave it to him and later wished I had

Hi folks, I agree that the ends look black and the roof red to me but the white in the monad herald b may seem "whiter" in the newer herald only because there is more white in the larger size herald.

Thank you Todd. That's what I was thinking too and made most famous by Johnny Cash's rendition of it on Sam Phillips Sun label. Cordially, Don Valentine

If someone is seriously interested in ice harvesting it is still done on one day in February each winter on the pond at the center of Brookfield, Vermont, the same pond with the floating bridge, using

Hi folks, Can't recall, when did Mather really get it's start? This is the first Mather car I've seen that has not utilized commonly available steel channels, angles and such. It appears that they wer

Definitely a photo beyond our period given the steel I beams in the PC gon #598980. But not that the stacks of I beams have a vertical piece of scrap wood between each of them and along the sides, the

Bruce Smith, what class is the Pennsy #532885 boxcar seen in this photo? Is the roof slope really as flat as it appears or is it just my view of it? Also forgot to note earlier folks, not the sign on

There are several htings that stand out to me in this photo. Since the tank car is the primary reason the photo has been posted let's take it first. Were the walkways for this car designed by Rube Gol

Does anyone offer decals for a whole Santa Fe car that includes the "Buy War Bonds" slogan? while anything but a Pennsy fan I have always appreciated things like that slogan on an appropriate car as a

Hi folks, If memory serves Wright-Trak offers, or offered, a kit for the Tennessee Central with the PS-0 ends. Cordially, Don Valentine

Bill Welch wrote: "IRC the minimum order is $30 so you may need to recruit some people to fill out your order. This is fun and easy build to get to a GTW car. Richard Hendrickson had an article in RMJ

Hi folks, Does anyone have enough familiarity with Boston & Albany triple hoppers to comment on the Marklin B&A hopper listed on eBay as Item #372692339988? Not a bad looking car in which I have some

It was not just the reefer fleet that the BAR needed only for the potato harvest, it was also motive power. Until the BAR worked a deal with the Pennsy that sent BAR power to the Pennsy during the sum

Randy Hamill wrote: "Although I generally agree with the Gilbert-Nelson approach, along with Bruce Smith’s percentages, they are very dependent upon the road you model. Bruce models the PRR, so 75% ho

Most easily by going to a limestone quarry and choosing the proper size from those that are offered. I did that with an empty 2 lb. peanut butter jar and got a second one of smaller size for ballast.

I rode one of the C&O ferries from Manitowoc to Ludington in Aug. 1978 and got the shock of my life to watch a Milw. switcher put three 6,000 gal. GPEX milk cars then leased to Richter Vinegar on the

Hi Doug, The CB&Q stock car with the double decked load of sheep is a cocoker given the full height IC car behind it and a similar car to the right. Such photos really illustrate the diminutive size o

Hello Ed, I want to thank you not only for the full information on this ART car, which I had somehow looked right by in my 1931 CarBuilders, but more for the generosity you have continually provided t