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

Hi folks, I'm hoping that someone on this list might have a photo of an ART #200 - #299 36 ft. reefer in the postwar period. Supposedly these cars had truss rods, if one can believe the Athearn/Roundh

Thanks Bruce & Bob, The Great Yellow Fleet was about the first place I looked but it didn't offer an thing of any use. The second have may not be good, Bob, but I also question the title. The Great Ye

Hello folks, I'm trying to assist an old friend who is not computer literate but is a serious New Haven modeler. In the postwar period the New Haven had four Shoreline freights that left Boston every

Actually Richard if you take a trip to the Smithsonian you can see a silk purse that Dupont IIRC made from a sow's ear. I do not know if it was transported there in a STMFC freight car. Cordially, Don

Thank you Steve Hile not only for coming up with the reporting marks and car number that I could not quite make out but also for the reference to a great site for freight car photos. I've just spent a

Thanks for that photo Curt. I never cease to be amazed of the great freight car photos that turn up on this list. This one is a real surprise. But look at the end of the next car to the right. I can't

Nice to see those ends become available but I'd be a lot more interested in seeing the Yuma Car & Foundry Seaboard Airline CLass B-3 boxcar offered in HO that they offer in TT and S gauge. Cordially,

Ed Mines wrote: Duco cement uses acetone as solvent; it is very fast to evaporate. I've learned to use it in place of Ambroid cement which is no longer available. What kind of crackpot nonsense is thi

The Susie-Q had 49 cars that were 36 ft. DOMINION cars by April 1948, never mind the Fowler car nonsense as in the photos I have seen NO Erie Dominion cars used the unnecessary, and expensive, Fowler

The end is made of three pieces and the fat part is where they are joined, either riveted or welded, I can't tell for sure in the photo but it looks like they are welded. Cordially, Don Valentine

Congratulations Bob Webber because if one can't laugh at themselves they have no right to laugh at anyone else! My best, Don Valentine

OK folks, Bill Aldrich, whom as I mentioned has a doctorate Inorgamic Chemistry, kicked this cement business around for about 45 minutes. For small plastic parts/pieces and such Bill uses ACC for almo

Jon Miller wrote: I've never had any luck using MEK to join Plexiglas. I use a acrylics cement from TAP plastic. The can says Dichloromethane contains; Methylene chloride Trichloroethylene Methyl Meth

Thank you, Bruce, for your response to my question about the early container cars. Petty much what I expected but was never certain of. My best, Don Valentine