Fenton, That's a scary good build. Don't you just hate the spell checker? Your subject line is Freudian...... John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696

The Liberty Ship SS Jeremiah O'Brien is home ported in San Francisco. The Victory Ship SS Red Oak Victory is across the bay in Richmond, and the SS Lane Victory is in San Pedro. The Gulf coast can als

Leopold to Aberdeen Leopold to Aberdeen Catching up on reading the Passenger train list today, the Troop Train discussion from last month stimulated me ... John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates

Armand, There is a small, but dedicated group of NYOW folks still active on Yahoo groups, owrhs@.... I discovered them while trying to sell my NicklePlateProducts NYOW 4-8-2. John Barry AT

OOPS I missed those 45' FGs. They are in the ORER table. John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696 PO Box 44736 Washington, DC 20026-4736

There aren’t many possibilities. We can eliminate the short FM and FG cars, as well as the FD and FW cars. That leaves the following FM flats from the Oct44 ORER list of Heavy Capacity Flat Cars C&O 8

I failed to catch a layout error on the S&T decals. The slogans for cars 140911 and 140317 are on the other cars sheet. 317 should be El Capitan and 911 should be Super Chief. Limited additional decal

Gents, I have uploaded the presentation and copies of the Santa Fe Bx-34 drawings to the Shake_N_Take files. John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696

We've discussed these cars in the past, but several of Jack Delano's photo captions at the Library of Congress add depth to the story. I just hope that they did a good job of tying down the loaded han

Bill, It depends, maybe, maybe not. If your car is in original paint, metal running boards should be galvanized. If they represent a repaint, it should match the roof, non-skid black prior to 51, mine

Bill, I respectfully disagree, Santa Fe steel running boards remained unpainted galvanized when applied new. They were only painted to match the roof in a repaint. Had the running boards been wood, yo

Alan, You may be able to obtain a scan of the Santa Fe blueprints for the cars from the archives in Temple Tx. Contact Craig Ordner, he archivist. I have obtained the sheets for the Bx-34 for this yea

Bill, The three foot Herald was standard, but a two foot version was used where a standard one would not fit between the riveted seams of steel cars or the bracing on single sheathed cars. John Barry

Speculation on: Apples, cherries, and other tree fruits that need a winter frost. Canned goods that needed insulation from heat or cold enroute. Speculation off. John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden

Bob, The other volumes are there too! Just change the # at the end of your link from 1 to 2 through 8. John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696 PO Box

Those are available on Shapeways and I too plan the IM Monon kitbash John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696 PO Box 44736 Washington, DC 20026-4736

Fred, From the 1936 tank car capacity tariff NIPX 6, 7 & 8 were heater coil equipped two compartment cars with shippers gauge shell/dome capacities as follows: NIPX 6 A-4951/226, B-4948/226, total-989

Nearly everyone on this list is eligible, no association with an academic institution required if they obtain a reader identification card from the Library of Congress. The process is found at their w

Bob, Many, if not most roads had forms like this. Such cards were used for movement and return of empties. Some roads didn't fill them out until the loaded car was at it's destination and the clerk or

Folks, Peter Aue created original artwork and made a set of Buy War Bonds decals for me a couple years ago. With the recent discussion we have teamed to offer HO versions of the slogan applied to 368