Thanks, Charlie! Gary Laakso

Here is a nice picture of a Great Northern truss rod stock car: https://donstrack.smugmug.com/UtahRails/Emil-Albrecht-Photos/1946-Jun-McCammon-and-Salt/i-SwLxDtG/A Is the floor between decks really th

Great job Lester. They have moved to the top of their boxcar class. The pickle car following them is worth a blog. Gary Laakso

Steve, how many or more likely, how few of the Type X cars had two compartments? It appears to be 6,000 gallon tank or am I off by a couple of thousand gallons? Gary Laakso

And a very distinctive two dome tank car in the picture. Gary Laakso

Thanks, Charles for the correction, amazing that ending the program required a $4 billion payment. During the period of our list, peanuts were shipped from the south to processing plants nationwide. G

Peanuts to this day cannot be grown anywhere without a license issued by the Department of Agriculture or you “rent” an existing license to grow them since new licenses have not be issued in decades.

Peanut growing still requires a license from the US Department of Agriculture or the lease of an existing license. Thus, the crops are located in the south and if Skippy has a plant on the west coast,

His steam engine models had both brake shoes and sand lines with turrets that opened! Amazing detail and the series was foreshortened by Model Railroader and that set back the detailing craze back 20

There were decals issued for these models, most of which were not NP. Gary Laakso

Thank you Eric! Pictures are worth the wait to view. Gary Laakso

Pre-USRA, too: https://donstrack.smugmug.com/UtahRails/Emil-Albrecht-Photos/1945-Nov-Train-Trip-Home/i-s5c9qW6/A Gary Laakso

Great build of one of my favorite eye candy pieces with metal 1.5 door and single sheathed. Gary Laakso

What a wonderful build! While it is a stock car, that is not a “stock” kit build. The additions to the pre-painted are real eye candy and reveal the detail exceptionally well. Gary “more the stock bui

Rocket Express made a resin car of a Rock Island stock car. Gary Laakso

Claus, it may not be unloading coal since there is no visible access to the pile. Gary Laakso

Great build of a very distinctive car. Gary Laakso

Thanks, Brian. The instruction sheet has Edgewater, Colorado as the home town. Gary Laakso

Were the Pittsburg Scale Models re-branded as Protowest Scale Models that were sold as two kits in one box? Gary Laakso

NP reefers that were clones of the PFE reefers. Gary Laakso