Hi Lloyd, I checked the Kadee website for past and current tank cars, and doggone, you are correct, they have never done a Phil Gas or Skel Gas car. We are rapidly closing in on our closing date for o

I would guess ATSF from the curved line map. The truck (auto) is filled with Ruppert beer. I can't imagine how they got into that situation. The near end of the boxcar is off the track, so there must

They look like Train Miniature double wood sheathed steel end 40ft boxcars that have no particular prototype, AFAIK. Todd Sullivan

Thanks for several informative replies, the most informative of which is Chris Frissell's about Great Western in Billings. Now I have a shipper if I want to model sugar shipments. Thanks!! Todd Sulliv

Hi Clark, Wow! That Excel workbook is a labor of love. It also raises lots of questions about where cars came from and where the loads out were going. E.g., where did all that sugar in NP boxcars come

Interesting place to have a headquarters. Hancock, NY was on the NYO&W line on the Delaware River deep in the heart of NY State's Southern Tier. A pretty small town, well off the beaten track, near Ca

Dick, That's a really nice 'conversion' from the old Athearn metal kit. When I first got into the hobby as a 14 year old, the first kits I built - or tried to build - were some HO Athearn metal boxcar

Bob, Another form of an answer to your question about penalties is this: We had a Manager of Clerks, R. H. Blackburn, who would likely be the person to have a conversation with you if you screwed up a

Hi Bob, Neat photos. In the 1960s, when I clerked for a RR, it was unusual to see such stenciling unless the car was a hide car. Hide cars were unfit for anything else, and were so stenciled. As a Car

You might want to check Corey Bonsall's products on eBay. He sells the D&RGW/UCR heavy duty gondola trucks which appear pretty similar. Todd Sullivan

Bob, Innovative approach, very convincing model. Thanks for sharing. Todd Sullivan.

Phil, These gons are fairly well represented by the Proto2000 model (need a few detail changes), and by the old National Car Cast (1960s Canadian very small company) ABS moldings of a rebuilt PC confi

What fascinates me the most is that two masted fishing schooner tied up at the wharf. She looks like she might have been a fast fisherman in her day. (Boston and Gloucester were the principal homeport

I am hardly an expert in loading cattle into stock cars, but (common sensically) it does occur to me that loading full size livestock on an upper deck would raise the center of gravity for the car and

OK, I'll play dummy here. What makes these tank cars USRA tank cars? They have underframes like the Gould/Tichy model, but the tank shells are 3 course rather than 4 course. I thought the 4 course she

All - Chris Frissell's article is really well done, with a variety of weathering styles from moderate to 'is there any paint on that car?' His techniques are to be commended. I have just started weath

Yes, if you needed a car NOW, you'd find the closest one that fits the requirements. The only exceptions would be not loading feed (bagged or bulk) into a car assigned to hide service, or flour into a

Thank you, Johannes, for your additional comments. Todd Sullivan

Jeff, I own several of the Trix UP 'ACR' 40ft boxcars, and the springs are associated with the Trix couplers. You can remove the couplers, draft gear boxes and the springs with no danger to the operat

I have seen photos of similar flat cars owned by the OWR&N in log service in WA state. Does anyone know if they were a Harriman std design or built by Std Steel Car? Todd Sullivan