A few data points that might help: My beat-up copy of the RPI compendium of railroad data has 1950 as the change to the wording within the circle herald to "Bridge Line to New England and Canada." The

Bill, I can't take credit for posting the link to the Vallejo catalog... earlier in the thread Charles Happel posted it. Giving credit where it's due... --George Irwin

https://acrylicosvallejo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/catalogue-vallejo-fine-arts-CC012.pdf is their catalog, the website shows most of their colors. Charles, thanks for this information. I've only

The STMFC and the RPMs show that we can aspire to great modeling without feeling superior about it. (And boy, would I need a lot of aspiration to get anywhere near what RPMs display.) As much as I enj

Brian and all, It's this Saturday and Sunday (29 and 30 September 2018) and it's been renamed the "Greater Toronto Train Show". I missed last year but attended in previous years, and I will be there S

FWIW, eBay does have a process to block sale of infringing items. It's called VERO for the Verified Rights Owner Program. Most if not all of the companies that participate in this have gross revenues

Thanks, Garth. I can confirm (for what it's worth) that some of these photos could have been source material for Micro-Trains' releases on their Civil War Era body styles. One of these is the NYC&HR 2

For what it's worth, Micro-Trains has done a "Merchants Despatch Four-Pack," a "White Line Four-Pack" and a "Red Line Four-Pack" in N Scale on their Civil War Era cars. I anticipate there will be a "B

Thanks, Richard! Knowing the class really helped, as I was able to check Lee Gautreaux's "Railgoat" site, on which there's more information: http://www.railgoat.railfan.net/spcars/byclass/box/b050-30.

First, let me start by saying that the search function works, and works well, on groups.io. I've successfully done some homework in the archives before asking this question! Micro-Trains has announced

This article about the contemporary re-purposing of the former Central Railroad of New Jersey warehouse in Newark, NJ also has a reprint of the 1907 Railway Gazette article describing that same freigh

A modest suggestion from a lurker here on this topic... A group of N Scalers have used Trovestar to put together an online database of more than 40,000 items, including some 30,000 pieces of rolling s