Very nice article on ventilated boxcars in 30:3 issue rh

Excellent and very useful post. Thank you, Lester.

The legos are a permanent part of the build? (It looks like they must be)

I was looking to order Northeastern Scale Lumber HO car siding from our local hobby shop, but was not able to locate specific information at the Northeastern website. I am hoping that someone would be

There was an Illinois Central aluminum box car on E-bay last week. Not so interested in the car, but it did get me to thinking... Great Northern had one (only) aluminum box car. Ebay had a NP aluminum

I've taken to using (new) exacto blade, scoring the cut, and then repeating the cut 7-8 times until I am all the way through the plastic. Seems to work fine. Mostly because I am not trusting myself to

Could some one here offer a brief tutorial on the size of tank car domes? This query comes from a recent comment about wanting to 'cut down' domes to shorter size for specific cars, related to car cap

Time to finish up barrel car project, which means that I have several dozen wooden barrels to stain. Any suggestions would be appreciated; coming out new from barrel factory would likely be a light oa

Very nice information, Charlie. A lot of ideas to draw from! rh

I was able to pick up two packets of the Juweela zuckerruben (sugar beets) from Ebay. The company is in Germany, you can easily get to the website through google. Shipped from EU or UK, but arrived in

Very interesting idea.... we could take photos of our layout, attach the bottom banner (not hard to create, white font on grey background), then we have a new WPA photograph!

So.... any builder diagrams, train encyclopedia, or other diagrams for Riverside Oil car? The Ambroid instruction sheet is nicely detailed (as always) but I don't know if the dimensions are correct? R

There is an interesting Ambroid kit of an early insulated tank car, shown below, also released as a Northeastern kit. (Brass Trains has a built model of this, listed as brass but clearly the Ambroid k

I would like to get just one and then make a mold for other copies…

Note also that there is a different rooftop ventilator that runs the length in the photographs rh

Fascinating photograph of loading the Roma Wine car... I have often wondered about these, and did not know that there were the large vats inside of the cars.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2022/04/15/nevada-northern-railway-museum/

These are very nice. I have several Ambroid and Main Line kits in process -- practice for scratch building a group of 34' and 36' cars for early Great Northern layout. Ray Hutchison

Several months ago there was a brief thread about the Menasha Wooden Ware freight cars. There is a "rebuilt" 40' car here in the National Railroad Museum as well as a model of a 40' car (forget the ma

This photograph, from the Midcontinent Railroad Museum link that Doug sent, is worth a thousand words...