We do have a figure of a station agent modified such that he is holding his nose with one hand and pointing to the track with the other. I've got a picture of him "in action" on the Atlantic Great Eas

I ran this by John Young, a friend who recently retired from a career at the Pepsi bottling plant in Howell, Michigan: In the early 1950's, CO2 would probably been delivered in larger (200 gallon rang

I have a couple of photos that may be useful to you but because of the way they were shared with me, I can't really post them here. Contact me off list: agecompanyphotog@... For general discussi

No speculation here ... a specific reference: At the Chicagoland RPM last fall I bought a nice color print whose main subject was a Duluth South Shore & Atlantic RS-1 taken in the late 1950's at St. I

Definitely ex-Wabash double-sheath cars rebuilt as steel-sheath cars. They operated in revenue service as AA 1100-series cars then became MofW/Company Service boxcars. Most were black as MofW cars but

Tom Hood (who started C-D-S) had an extensive collection of freight car slides. Years and years ago Ken Goslett introduced me and my friend Arnt Gerritsen to Tom and we spent an enjoyable day in his b

Asking for a friend modeling 1948-1952 timeframe - Albany NY - NYC Was the Delaware & Hudson using the circle herald with "Bridge Line - Serving New England" slogan in use during this time frame? Also

Chuck Geletzke (dtslman@...) is your best contact for all things DTSL. I recall that there very very yellow boxcars and they had special assignments - but Chuck would know for sure. Craig Wil

I am especially impressed with whomever painted that tree line on the backdrop of the cordwood photo. Craig Wilson

A lot of different tools to sort through on their site. Can you supply a reference to this specific tool you're using? I've got quite a pile of Yarmough cars awaiting assembly. Craig Wilson

The Athearn 50-foot flatcar has proved useful for kitbash projects too. Way back when the Intermountain 70-ton flatcar was just a twinkle in their eye, I kitbashed a couple of 70-ton, 15 stake pocket

Let's see if I can do this off the top of my head: 1. Pere Marquette/Chesapeake & Ohio Badger - still in service at Ludington (autos and trucks only) Spartan - laid up at Ludington / spare parts perio

Beyond the scope of this list but . . . these cars relate to the subject line and the cars have built dates prior to 1960. In 1965 Canadian National modified 40-foot boxcars with roof hatches for pota

Tom Marsh lived in downstate Indiana. However his draftsman, Arnt Gerritsen, lived near Valparaiso in northwest Indiana. He drew many, many projects that got produced as Overland Models and some that

Hendrik Arnt Gerritsen . . . first met him in the early 1980's at the third-ever Ann Arbor Technical and Historical Society annual meeting and developed a long and close friendship. He had three car f

A question from "the bunker" as I dig into the pile of long put-off projects: I'm starting to work on a model of a specific Ann Arbor RR boxcar. Fifty cars that were originally built by the Wabash RR

That answers it ... thanks. I was hoping you guys would chime in. The project moves forward. Craig Wilson

Fenton ... I have purchased a few of the K4 decal sets and applied a few. I bought samples to study their accuracy to prototypes for which I have studied/collected data (specifically DT&I and Ann Arbo

Bob Schleicher (Model Ralroading/RailModel Journal) was very fond of a photo of the prototype DT&I car with a load of Ford tractors and used it often for his "Wish List" articles. One day I got a Walt

Good point . . . and I've found this very useful when determining the heritage of a "repurposed" car. Attached photo shows what was probably the last surviving Ann Arbor 74000-series boxcar. It was be