The decal work (including the chalk marks) is absolutely outstanding on the CNW boxcar. [Clicks 'jealous' button] George Irwin Rochester NY

Print isn't dead yet... I have had several suggestions and offers to take the MM issues, for which many thanks. I have a relatively local person who will be able to pick these up. I am retaining the o

Particularly for those of you in the Rochester NY area and surroundings... Some years ago I received for free an accumulation of Mainline Modeler magazines, beginning with the Charter Issue, Jan/Feb 1

Well, I can't take credit for knowing what I'm talking about, since it's Bob Chaparro who cited the original photo of the gun barrel on RDG 99048 (and thanks again, Bob!). I can take credit for a "you

Reviving this thread as Micro-Trains has among its December 2022 releases an N Scale rendition of this very car, Reading 99048, and with a battleship gun barrel load included (assembly and painting re

What, no mention of "tankage"? (You don't want to know.) I did need to look up "copra." "Copra refers to the dried coconut kernels from which coconut oil is expelled" -- thank you, Wikipedians. --Geor

To go around the Facebook page, try this link: https://www.prrths.org/content.aspx?page_id=86&club_id=171391&item_id=112154 Note that only the last four issues are available now for free download. All

For what it's worth, Micro-Trains released a series of N Scale Baby Ruth cars... https://micro-trains.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=63_68_143 The source for most of their paint scheme sele

I'm helping to spread the word about a new Railroad Prototype Modeler's Meet scheduled for April 3, 2022 at Batavia, New York (about halfway between Buffalo and Rochester). It will be held in conjunct

Mel Perry wrote: the only place yo find this copy is epay or rrtreasures, the current owners thrashed everything that carstens produced Off topic, but this is not accurate. Carstens did not have any a

I have a friend whose seven year old son "purchased" an N Scale layout complete with equipment that is in the future for this group. I needed to attach a Micro-Trains 1015 coupler to a Life-Like/Walth

For orientation purposes in case anyone is curious about exactly where these STFMCs are in Jersey City... to the left is the Erie's passenger terminal, and to the center right at the Union Terminal Co

Jim Ogden wrote: "Speaking of Foobies, was the white Varney (later LifeLike) Frisco Norge boxcar based on advertising artwork to promote the new appliance factory in Fort Smith, Arkansas? I know no re

Somewhat off topic, but "on another network" there is a thread called "More eBay Follies" which is approaching 400 pages in length... In general, I think the overall defection from eBay by model railr

Question for the group on this photo cited by Bob Chaparro back on the 17th: https://californiarevealed.org/islandora/object/cavpp%3A112263 The brake wheel arrangement (vertical staff or horizontal mo

Follow up: As of 12:30PM Eastern Time, the railcarphotos.com site appears to be to be back up and running normally. A search I performed worked correctly as well. Cheers, George Irwin

For what it's worth, at 9:30AM Eastern Time on August 20, I tried to access railcarphotos.com and was met with a "500 Internal Server Error." These problems usually get straightened out relatively qui

With respect to the Oscar Mayer car, if I recall correctly from my late father's accumulation of HO trains, the folks at Athearn did a car similar to the retouched photo Claus referenced. It had red s

The ORER for April 1952 shows the group Erie 7220 to 7224 with five cars, AAR Designation FM, capacity 180,000 pounds. (Just visible in the photo.) The next set, 7230 to 7234, are FMs with a capacity

This is great! Researching history can be fascinating. And incidentally, one of the overhead shots in the full blog post shows a neat switching puzzle for, of course, Steam Era Freight Cars. Thanks fo