Schuyler, Like this one? https://brasstrains.com/Classic/Product/Detail/123023/HO-Brass-Model-Hallmark-Troop-Kitchen-Passenger-Car-Unpainted-Dong-Jin-Later-Run As you will notice, they have others, an

Schuyler, Like this one?: https://brasstrains.com/Classic/Product/Detail/123023/HO-Brass-Model-Hallmark-Troop-Kitchen-Passenger-Car-Unpainted-Dong-Jin-Later-Run As you will note, they have others, and

Jim, Silver Streak was a line of wood-sided freight cars, mostly boxcars, cabooses, a few refrigerators, and a Hart convertible gondola. The cars had scribed and pre-painted plywood sides and unpainte

Andy, Out of curiosity, I went to Google maps and looked for the C. Reiss plant. No such luck, though the building may still exist. A street address would help. However, a closed C. Reiss "coal field"

Elden, I'm not into the P&WV, but do you have Greg Martin's September 1993 MM article on modeling their boxcars? If you need a copy, please meet me off group. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆

Claus and Friends, These cars are a very rare find. Although the Atlantic & North Carolina dated to before the Civil War, it was under lease and completely absorbed by the original Norfolk Southern be

Friends, Here's a screen grab with a bit of Photoshop magic of the tank car at the Iron City Brewery. It is marked I. R. Co. 32, and appears to be an AC&F Type 7. Another very interesting tank car is

Bill, Have you considered Chad Boaz's kits? He has some neat stuff nobody else has done. They are pretty basic bodies and underframes, to which you add the details. I have a couple waiting to build an

Friends, Over the years I have acquired a number of locomotive photos originally from the C.C. Grayson collection. Can anyone tell me about this collector/dealer? All I know is that he lived in Longvi

Josh and Friends, D&RGW had 76 such insulated boxcars, 60000-60076. They were drawn from several blocks of Pressed Steel 12-panel 10' 4" IH boxcars which the Rio Grande began buying in the late 1930s.

Bob, I found a similar car on the RF&P around 1988. It would seem that the entire gondola part of the car can be tipped using train air. Even says "AIR DUMP" to the left of the coupler. Other than tha

Gordon, How about fat? Animal fats are a valuable byproduct of slaughter houses. They are used in all sorts of other products from cosmetics to explosives (think glycerine). Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆

Friends, The car in the photo is very interesting. It looks to me like an 1890s design, now of course downgraded to an in-plant car. Note that there is no air brake hose showing. By the 1890s most car

Ken, Alloy Forms used to offer a cast metal Studebaker kit, but it isn't on their current web pages. IIRC, these were 1950 Studebaker Champion two-door coupes, one of those cars with the really weird

Bob, Carnegie Steel Co. A car with similar lettering is shown in the 1931 CBC, page 239, or in Gregg Reprint No. 46. No, this isn't a lumber yard. It is a steel stock yard, though I'm not sure whether

Rob, If you need just one or two pieces, the $15 shipping charge makes this a rather expensive option. Order a pile of them, and maybe it's not so bad, but do any of us really need a whole stack of Ro

Schuyler, Mont Switzer wrote an article on FGEX family reefers in the March 2011 RMC. It is supposedly about a Kahn's reefer, but other cars are shown. One of his models is NX 6808. He did the roof in

So Bob, What about us WP fans? 🤪 WP caboose 778 is one of the original 50 Haskell & Barker cabooses built for the WP in 1910. It received a steel underframe in a mid-1920s rebuild at the Sacramento sh

Claus and Charles, It is a B-50-15, built for the SP subsidiary Morgan's Louisiana & Texas (ML&T) in 1925 as 53060-53559 or 1926 as 36210-36509. These were relettered to T&NO, probably around 1928, th

Friends, F&C offers a model of these cars: http://fandckits.com/HOFreight/8196.html Neat trucks, by the way. Question: Does the service restriction actually mean it was assigned to service from some p