Charlie, My bet would be dirt over B&O freight car paint for that roof. Note the roof under the longitudinal running board. And btw, this is one of the arguments for "getting it right" with respect to

Whiskey. Green (not Great) Valley Rye (Whiskey) was a product of Casey Bros. Pennsylvania (or Pennsyltucky, as some like to call it), used to famous for its Rye whiskey. Here is a match case advertisi

Charlie, Why does the wooden roofwalk appear to be the same color as the metal roof? Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Tony's comments are spot on. Paint pigments are not UV-stable long term and so the fading seen in steam era freight cars is in large part due to the action of sunlight on the pigments (yes, there is a

George, Well, picking nits, we like to think of PRR's freight car color as an oxide RED, not brown 😉 GN plywood boxcars - Omaha orange and green Georgia RR - silver Regards, Bruce Bruce Smith Auburn,

Tony, Thanks! One of the delights in modeling 1944 is that I get to have the "slogan" cars (or at least many of them!) Regards, Bruce

Folks, I finished up a Des Plaines C&EI "Buy War Bonds" car. This is a plastic kit with a Des Plaines Viking roof and 8-rung ladders included in the kit. Based on discussion many years ago on this lis

Folks, The Summer 2022 issue of The Keystone Modeler, our 121st issue, is now ready for download from our web site at: https://www.prrths.org/content.aspx?page_id=86&club_id=171391&item_id=112154 The

Tim, The Temiskaming & Northern Ontario, predecessor of the Ontario Northland. The ORER contained specific cautions not to mix them up with the T&NO. Regards, Bruce Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Claus, You can get it HO scale too 😉 Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Lester, Al, I was puzzled by the initial question and the response. The kit builds an 8K gallon, 6 radial course tank car, as built by the Standard Tank Car company and owned by General American Tank

Philip, Hahahahahaha! No. They transported fuel, and bomb components. It was a different era and today's safety rules were not in effect. Regards, Bruce

Richard, Just to clarify, you're either talking about an AC&F type 7 (1907 design) or an early type 11 (1911 design). Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Oh those pesky decimal places!! 😉 A handy rule of thumb is that one real inch is approximately 0.01” in HO (it is actually 0.01148”). Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> o

Jim, Broadly speaking, it is possible. Two situations resulted in lease fleets owning a competitor’s designed car. First, mergers. Cars from absorbed fleets often came from a wide variety of builders

Alex, I don’t see the photo you mentioned… can you provide a link? The NYCHS basically decided to become a competitor of other on-line hobby shops. Accuracy has never been a big issue with them and I

Glen, That's a little too absolutist. In fact, the practice of treating with lime was not as widespread in the US as it was in Canada, where it was required, as has been noted earlier in this thread,

The train in the background is quite interesting, with what looks like a couple of boxcars, a tank car, a boxcar with windows (MOW?), a hopper, a State of Maine car, another boxcar, a caboose and two

Bob, I am most familiar with this subject as it relates to the PRR, in no small part due to Bob Johnson's outstanding PRR Cabin Car book. The downfall of the 4-wheel bobber can be directly correlated

Actually, I think that it is too short and the roof is wrong for the X30. Rather, this appears to be an X33A. Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL