The tank car is sold. Thanks for saving me from Feebay. CJ Riley Bainbridge Island WA

I have an overland LP tank car (1936) for sale: $150 priority mail included : check or paypal. Please respond off list: cjriley42@...

One of the RR Cyc reprints includes ARA(?) loading diagrams for that gondola load and I built one myself. It's obviously more stable that way with much of the mass below the sides. CJ Riley Bainbridge

While not directly related to freight cars, I have a cautionary tale. In 1962 I spent a summer at Levinson Steel (working in the old Pressed Steel Car plant in McKee's Rocks PA) painting the plate gir

back in the '80s I started a Western Maryland Pacific using Bowser components for a NYC loco. Shortened the boiler, modified the cab, turned a couple of domes from brass rod. Now, after a move across

There are a number of early photos that I donated on the NMRA Kalmbach Library site. Unfortunately they are not identified as such but are under the CJ Riley collection. CJ Riley Bainbridge Island WA

Apologies.

I think it is a valid technique and worth including in AOI. Could you find a spot for the photo and write a cap? I would be delighted. You might remember Kline shading the indent in O scale hopper car

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Larry, Thanks for the "Little Giant "issue. I was intrigued by the Fogg painting that I was sure was a photo. It reminded me that I have an original bound set of Fogg P&LE paintings about postcard siz

Jim, I have had consistently good results using powdered color or chalk (and sometimes eye shadow) to represent faded (sometimes called chalking) paint. Since the oxidizing of the paint creates a slig

You can start with glossy black and work some powdered colors into it to simulate the accumulated dirt. CJ Riley Bainbridge Island WA

Could be flour in containers. CJ Riley Bainbridge Island WA

There was another Ford plant that I toured as a Cub (Boy?) Scout in the early '50s, in Milpitas, I believe. CJ Riley Bainbridge Island WA There was a plant at Richmond, Calif., right at the harbor. It

Just one major terminal along (near) the Allegheny River. CJ Riley Bainbridge Island WA

In deference to all of our advancing ages, may I suggest a Segway. Don't need another fall and injury. CJ Riley Bainbridge Island WA

I spoke with Bill an hour ago about one of my pieces and he was willing only to say there has been a revised printing schedule, but the lights were on, the phones worked and he was working on the Janu

- On Mon, 8/27/12, soolinehistory <destorzek@...> wrote: Back in the days of natural pigments, bright red was expensive, certainly more expensive than iron oxide as a pigment. Having been explor