Kevin, Look on page 164 (2nd ed.) of Tony Thompson & Company's PACIFIC FRUIT EXPRESS. You do have a copy don't you? Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Friends, Gene Autry was once a railroad telegrapher. He maintained a lifelong interest in railroads, and was responsible for the preservation to at least two steam locomotives. He also had a miniature

Good Friends, I am scanning up my father's and my railroad slides before the physical images go to a museum. As I was working on the enclosed image of a WP maintenance of way boxcar, I made an interes

Friends, I seem to remember that Lynn Wescott or maybe Paul Larson first popularized this type of layout. Way back in the very 1960s MR had articles on plug-in walk-around throttles and "progressive b

Good Friends, A few days ago I purchased THE RAILROAD PHOTOGRAPHY OF JACK DELANO by Tony Reevy (ISBN 9780253017772) from E.R. Hamilton Booksellers. I have found Delano's photographs which we have disc

Good Friends, As I contemplated how to add the piping and brake levers (AB brakes, as upgraded) to my small collection of Ulrich GS gondolas, I thought to look in my collection of Gregg Train Shed Cyc

Uh, Tim, Do you have a link to the 3-D printed model? Yours Aye, Garth

Tim, I would love to have a model of the WP's 70-ton 46' GS cars. These were more like the 40' Red Caboose cars than the Ulrich models, and came in three groups, all slightly different. WP 9101-9400 w

Friends, Could this tube have contained an elevator or other lift from the magazines to the gun turrets? Yours Aye, Garth Groff

Friends, Down at the local train store there is a Great Northern Ulrich/Walthers GS gondola in their used equipment case. The car's ends extend up to form heap shields atop the usual flat end with two

David, The Sacramento Northern still rostered a few revenue-service flats and gondolas with wooden end sills into the 1950s. Don't forget that MW equipment even on larger railroads might have wooden e

Friends, This discussion of the Kindl and now Cloud trucks has been very interesting. These trucks are, I believe, loosely called "pedestal" trucks, and seem to have a lot in common with the better-kn

Alfred, Tony Thompson, others and I batted around the question of WP R-30-12 clones several years ago on the old group (or maybe it was the old old USNET group). I don't believe we came to any definit

Friends, A search on Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rolling_stock_manufacturers#United_States ) shows that the Harrisburg Car Manufacturing Co. was active from 1853-1890. University

Rob and Dennis, No need to use typical dimensions. Here are the dimensions for the W&LE 27000-series cars from the ORER: IL--40' 3" IW--8' 6" IH--9' 1" OL--41' 7" OW (Eaves)-- 9' 3" EW--10' 1" OH (Fro

Jared, This has also been on my mind, particularly after my current health crisis. Consider making a detailed inventory of what you want to donate to each source and keep it with your other important

Bob, Are you familiar with these machines? Tony's book says Roseville had Preco machines. Taken by my late father, Glenn Groff, slide dated 4/66. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Friends, Wasn't his name actually "Minton"? I'm sure Mr. Cronkite is past caring now, but as Dale Carnegie said, "A person's name is their greatest treasure." Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Friends, I've used Kadee running boards for a number of upgraded Front Range and C&BT Shops cars. I carefully measure the spacing between the pegs and drill small holes in the car roof on the center l

Friends, The Kadee people told me these were coming several months ago. I've been after Sam to do the Morton RB for years. Nearly all WP PS-1s used Morton. I'm going to order immediately. Now all we n