Decided to post this after reading comments about pledge... I am supremely unconfident about weathering cars and engines. Is there a way to apply overcoat to original finish that might allow for remov

...except when they were dried out and used for grain service?

Although, why not? An efficient way to load grain into a car, and the reefers may have been on return shipment, or simply out of season. Ery interesting, and another example of something that can be m

I've always wondered how many automobiles got squashed during shipment...

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This is very interesting. My mother's family is from Joliet, and her brother had a large setup in the basement (back in the old Silver Streak days). I have been accumulating EJ&E freight for a new yar

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very nice model. looking at a number of early photographs, what would determine whether the door would open to the right (which we think of as being correct) or opened to the left as shown here)?

another photo of the Columbus Hocking Valley and Toledo...

Anyone have photos of (similar) the three cars in the middle -- the L&N hopper and those on either side? Even better, any builder diagrams or modeling diagrams? This is Birmingham, Alabama. The blast

clip-on weights for balancing tires would be very useful for a variety of cars (once they have been flattened), as they come in assortment of weights/sizes

We know that different roads painted the car trucks in different ways, but I am wondering how we know what those colors are / should be? In some instances the information is pretty stable (Great North

not certain how many here would have heard of Tennessee Central Railroad (essentially Nashville east through Cookeville and Monterrey). Early shipments included sand for construction. It was shut down

Hello Tom, Yes, thank you. I have picked up three orders from Paul since we start homestay, and this is my preferred place to get things (even if I have to pay a little more, which usually is *not* th

wonderful photo/find, Richard.

This has been hit or miss on ebay, and difficult to get things from local hobby shop. I am looking for a good source for both wood and styrene car roofs, sides, ends, and bottom frames. Suggestions mu

I have been looking online for some definitive information, not finding it there, thought I would ask the following: In the first decades of the 1900s, there were two types of roof hatches for refrige

On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 7:49 PM Ray Hutchison via groups.io <rayhutchison2@...> wrote: Birmingham 1923 Ensley 1906 From Shorpy: On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 7:26 PM Todd Horton via groups.i

Birmingham 1923 Ensley 1906 From Shorpy:

apologies, I thought this was being sent to the group under new topics subject line.