So I was going to start build on a couple of resin kits, thought I would try canopy glue this time, and then someone here (or another list) posted about taking models apart, putting them in the freeze

fun work on 95 degree day on the prairie...

Tony Thompson has a page devoted to the Associated Flying A Oil Company at his Modeling the SP website: http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2013/12/associated-oil-company-background.html If you google "

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=4961135 http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=4961135 http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=4961123 http://www.rrpict

Whoa! You found he long lost Cheech and Chong movie!

I think we did this 4-5 months ago? Photographs of wheel factory in Denver, one of several of a company that started in Chicago. Tichy has very nice model of wheel car (like the one shown in photograp

FWIW, I noticed yesterday that in the Hickox GN Steam & Freight Pictorial collection, the color for the wood cabeese is given as scarlet (and the color for locomotive jackets is given as light olive)

(Jim, My note was in response to Josh, who was using that information in the compendium, citing the news article, to suggest a particular color for the GN cars; my point was that the compendium specif

Josh, Evan shared this document on this (or another list) a short time ago. The reference re: GN caboose indirect; the full article is copied here: The Wenatchee Valley & Northern Ry. Co. has received

I know that the answer for individual railroads will differ, but I am wondering when the "caboose red" started to be used? Color photographs (there are not many) of older cabeese show a boxcar red or

The third tank car has platform on top... I've most often associated this with (later) chemical cars?

would anyone happen to have a diagram of this (or similar) operation? If the loading of the coke is from structure in the back, how was finished coke transported to the loading bin?

Very interesting photograph/car. Were there other railroads that made similar modification to hopper cars?

... in other words they would have to be quartered to make them anywhere nears usable. would have been a better project back in december or january!

I hoping that someone might be able to tell me what HO scale size a wooden matchstick might be? In addition to modeling scrap wood for lumber cars, I'm wondering about stakes for gondola loads and the

Book (above) and there was an Athearn model of three-dome tank car. Not certain how true to prototype it might be. https://www.pwrs.ca/announcements/view.php?ID=9181 rh

https://www.ronsbooks.com/SHORTLINES-INDUSTRIAL-RAILROADS-OF-NEW-JERSEY-VOL-1_p_18637.html

Garth, One of the interesting things about the fish car (from the website) is that it apparently traveled just about every across the country and could be found in any pre-war model layout. Ray

I misread a section of the website (and the sentence that I quoted) that made it clear that transportation is now by tank truck. So I will be looking for metal trucks out on the highway labeled "live

This is pretty interesting... need to find out where to get Department of Commerce decals! I noted the following at the Catskills website in Garth's post: "Nowadays a fleet of modern tank trucks trans