I unintentionally mislead listers about the RI Herald. When I said red, I meant red OUTLINE (aluminum background), not the expected red background. This is consistent with the referenced known as-buil

Friends, the consensus (both on and off list posts) seems to so far be that the cars were delivered with the red ...ROCKETS and *outline* ROCK ISLAND heralds, but when they were shopped, these were ch

The following post from the Milwaukee List on the handling of meat reefers in Sioux Falls, SD is of considerable interest. Sioux Falls was the home of a giant Morrell packing plant, the very largest c

I am about to stick my toe in the water-soluble paint waters. A question to those using the classic Paasche single action air brush: which tip have you been finding most successful with these paints,

Brian opines- Yes.

Regretfully, this (the Trix Reefer) is not the first product review that in recent memory is infused with ambiguity and absence of any sense of knowledgeable attention to detail. I do agree with Mike

Charlie Vik's remarks on Model Eisenbahn's objective model reviews, and likens them to Higgins' reviews that were in the NMRA Bulletin for years. Although I do not read a word of German, I have read e

The Sunshine Naperville meet over Halloween? Wow! What a truly great excuse to get out of town. Denny

Does anyone on this list have a master list of Silver Streak freight car kits offered over the years, and would be willing to share it? I am also looking for the same with Ulrich. Thanks all- Denny

Friends, I am interested in the successful techniques used by many of you in creating open commodity loads in your gons (or hoppers, for that matter) in a manner that does not ruin the car, is fairly

Does anyone make the Bettendorf steel underframe so common under so many house cars converted from truss rods in the first three decades of the last century? Denny

For those interested, BCRail has just notified all of its employees that the BCRail infrastructure has been leased for 60 years by the CN for $1C Billion. This is will be phased in over three years. A

The fascinating information about the blurring of craft distinctions in the operation of IC hot trains was totally interesting. How common would this have been on other railroads? Although the IC and

Ted Schnepf reports that the Milwaukee would run specials out of Dubuque for a few as seven cars delivered by the IC. Ted: were these cars picked up from the "Banana Track" in East Dubuque (i.e. the M

In my "collection" of ancient HO Athearn metal cars and car kits are two IC reefers (identical model numbers- #402), but with two different car #'s - 50456, and 50234. Both have yellow sides and green

Spen Kellogg inquires- Have just spent a tedious amount of time painting wheelsets and then polishing the treads to get the wheels to look correct. What methods are commonly used and how do you keep i

I am fascinated that apparently some of the IC steel reefers had dark green roofs and, possibly, ends. Again noting that the early Varney paper-sides cars of prewar had oxide roofs and ends, and the p

I grew up hearing from my father, my uncles, and my cousins countless personal tales of travels in Drover's cabooses, accompanying either cars of cattle purchased in the Nebraska Sand Hills for subseq

"Steven Delibert" <STEVDEL@...> writes- Judging from old Railroad Magazine stories, there was often some "friction" between drovers and train crews __________________________________________ I

Although slightly off topic, I have been long interested in at least starting to scan a large number of railroad-subject slides (steam era FREIGHT CARS are included in many of the photos) from the '50