Al, Thanks for the pointers, but I've been unable to access the photo. Any chance of a scan for personal use? John John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490

Bob, I would hazard that these are inbound parts based on the apparent fixed racks inside the three single sheathed cars with open doors nearest the plant. The first two of those three MIGHT be ATSF F

Mine was in a locker at the post office downstairs from work. I brought it back upstairs and restrained myself for the rest of the work day. I did peruse a very useful set of photos riding the MARC ba

Bill, A number of presenters mentioned folks to whom they were indebted, including you. I finally got to meet Eric, although at the Blenko's layout on Sunday rather than in the midst of the meet. Shar

Bill, Your name was used in vain by several presenters. John Barry

Dave, The 66122 would have been one of 500 Fe-S built in 1926. All of the cars would have had A.T.&S.F. reporting marks. The Fe-R likely had one inch lines above the reporting mark and below the car n

Bruce, With your partial read on the # it has to be 907x5 which would make it a Ft-P. A 50 foot car built by AC&F in 1930. All ATSF revenue flats in 1945 were in the 9xxxx series with the Ft-P numbere

What's the difference? The directions I followed to white wash the trunks of my fruit trees called for dissolving lime in water to make a thin paste. It was a common California practice seen in the or

The Ethyl cars look good! Soon they will be transporting motor fuel anti-knock compound from Baton Rouge, Louisiana to North Bay refineries: Standard, Richmond via Santa Fe Shell, and Associated refin

Jim, Covered in my blog: Locomotive Sand at Richmond Locomotive Sand at Richmond The Richmond Roundhouse was the locomotive servicing facility for the west end of the Valley Division and the Sa... and

Garth, Thanks for that pointer. I have from another source that Columbia received pig iron from the mills in Utah. The jury is still out on coal needs prior to the end of the war. The mill was sited i

Gary, Bob, Thank you for your clarification r.e. the GN hopper count. Yes, it does include all the H class cars listed in the ORER. When I constructed my index of the Jan 45 ORER, I broke out the XMs

Columbia Steel at Pittsburg, CA got most of it's coal from Utah. Originating on the D&RGW, it went via WP to either Sacramento thence the Sacramento Northern or Stockton for ATSF delivery. Rio Grande

Jon, Walthers also makes a less detailed one, Walthers Part # 920-2031 p. 171 2017 HO Scale Reference Bookp. 207 2016 HO Scale Reference Book John John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast F

Jon, Try the Kadee 583 for an unpowered or 593 with pick up leads if you want to light your marker lamps/interior. John John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 70

Dennis, I concur that as an out the door kit, it won't fit your business model or the majority of the public's expectations from your line. However, it is an opportunity for some enterprising soul to

Eric, I had to run to the post office and neglected to add that the short box was 57917, 9.4% of the US XM count. The 119,727 in North America was 16.3% of the continental XMs. When you look at the XA

Jon, Hopefully our wait won't be too long. The NKP artwork shows a 1945 re weigh date. I can easily change that last digit or ignore, but the remainder of the paint looks spot on to this ATSF modeler.

All models are compromises. They are representations of the full size thing and have varying degrees of fidelity through the choices of the mold maker. Accurail has a fairly consistent set of compromi

I don't know about the reefer, but from the background, it was truly a Corn Field Meet! John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights 707-490-9696 PO Box 44736 Washington, DC 20026-4736