Still have my first HO loco, a Mantua Shifter I got in 1952. And the June 1948 issue of MR I bought as an 11 year old at a newsstand in Boston's South Station when my mother took me on a visit to her

This Ralph Hallock photo from the Colorado RR Museum collection shows three 0-6-0T locomotives on a B&A freight at Chatham NY in 1944. (Month and day not specified.) Ralph's caption: "0-6-0T tank engi

August 2013. Time passes faster than we'd like..... Tom Madden

Well, you can if you look at the eBay listing. There are several other photos, one of which shows the opposite side with several small crates in the door opening. So the large crates were loaded first

Jon's daughter, Stephanie, has sent this link to Jon's obituary: https://hayward.chapelofthechimes.com/obituaries/Jon-Miller-7/#!/Obituary It's fairly simple and focuses on Jon's railroad interests. F

For the car I photographed in 1961, it really looks to be gray. With red ends. Here's a cropped portion of the photo I took just prior to the other one, while the Baldwins were picking up the Erie cov

According to the on line list of railroad reporting marks, NX = Mathieson Dry Ice. Tom Madden T

November 1961 on the CNJ at Lake Junction, NJ. Matheson 8884, a fairly modern plug door dry ice car, follows Erie and LV covered hoppers behind Baldwins 72 and (I think) 74 northbound after picking up

My first thought was Palmer Lake, but I'm not a Q devotee. Tom Madden

Just heard from Jon's daughter, Stephanie, that Jon passed away on January 21. Jon was diagnosed with lung cancer in early January and it was too advanced to treat. I believe Jon was one of the origin

Thanks, Steve. As I said, it was our honeymoon and everything was rosy. And Ektachromey. Tom Madden

Here ya go, Bill. Taken at Grand Canyon on our honeymoon, September 1961. The Santa Fe reefer bible says it was formerly a Bx-3, renumbered from the 115xxx series of ice reefers in 1959.. Tom Madden

Steve Sandifer's excellent Santa Fe stock car book has a two-page spread devoted just to the convertible mechanism (pp 128, 129). The old AHM "cattle car" is actually a decent model of a NYC convertib

I think Aaron was working with Bill on those patterns. It definitely wasn't me. Would be both a tribute to Bill and a gift to the hobby if those patterns could be completed by someone with Aaron's ski

I spent over 20 years in commercial rapid prototyping (3D printing) and the primary purpose of 3D printing is to prove in a design. I've yet to meet a designer who gets everything right the first time

If I interpret the "Success Rate" correctly, the next one sold will be the first. Also the car looks to be available only in HO - there's a helium container available in both HO and N. Tom Madden

Second photo is a model. Or is Bob having a joke here?? Tom Madden

Works both ways. When Gail and I lived in New Jersey and were driving to Colorado for our two week vacations, a co-worker told me that his family was going to be vacationing "out west" too. When I ask

The front trucks on the third and fourth cars from the near end look to be sitting at an odd angle - derailed?? Tom Madden

Looks like he made another batch of 20. Once you get the printing parameters locked in you can set the printer to running and walk away. I assume the seller is using a Form 2 or equivalent - and proba