Thanks Brian. As the car body and roof are cast as one piece, how would you recommend removing the roof? Razor saw? My assumption would be that a Dremel would do a lot of collateral damage. Also, did

Hi All -- I was able to score a cheap kit for the above car at the Springfield show. The one I bought is decorated for Nickel Plate; is the wood running board correct for NKP cars, or do I need to fin

https://www.micromark.com/Xuron-Micro-Bending-Plier Has anyone tried these pliers from Xuron? They look like they'd be especially useful for bending cut levers. Paolo Roffo

So I'm gearing up for my first crack at building a resin kit. I've had a couple F&C kits in the closet for way too long now, and I thought the Pennsy X37 would be a good one to start with since its a

Would these have travelled off-line much by the 1950s? Or were they mostly relegated to company service and other niche uses by then? Paolo

Al, what was the market for the westbound C&O and N&W coal? Home heating and power generation in the Midwest? Paolo

There is a strong possibility of this being a dumb question, but I'm going to ask anyway. During the tome period covered by this list, was there a "standard" rivet spacing used on freight cars? Reason

Tony -- Any idea what Richard used to replace the stock Mantua ends? TIA Paolo roffo

To All - This may be a stupid question, however, does anyone know where I could get my hands on an ORER, preferably from the 1950-1952 timeframe? I tried searching the archives but either there wasn't

Sorry to dredge up an old topic, but... When did the PSMX tank cars go into service, and roughly how long did they last? thanks Paolo Roffo

In the environmental lab where I work, nitrile gloves are used as protection against acetone and several other (stronger, nastier) organic solvents that we use in the prep lab. The ones we have are pu

Would anyone here happen to have any more details about this odd tank car at museum in Saint Louis: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=436730 http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPic

Sorry I'm late to the game here. Were these tank-cars-turned-covered-hoppers used exclusively to transport the slate granules from the quarry in Vermont to customers elsewhere? I'm trying to determine

Good evening all - The ridiculous eBay price aside, how late would such a car have lasted in service? I just joined this list about a month ago, and thus far its made for fascinating reading (case in

Hello all - I'm new to this list, so pardon me if this has been covered before. Before the advent of center-beam flatcars (let's say early 1950s), how would finished lumber en route to a distributor h