Friends, Here it is, from the October 1993 RMJ. Sorry it is so small, but that's the way they often presented photos, to the irritation of some well-known authors. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆

Tim, You may be right. Ed's list has several listings for tiny lots, sometimes even just one car, and Southern seems to have been one of the worst for this sort of thing. Remember that many cars were

Sam, Still hoping you will do the 50' Morton running board. I do appreciate the 40' Morton boards, and bought a mess to upgrade my WP cars. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆

Elden, I bought their Southern 262053, part number 4324. It lacks the five little stiffeners under the running board, there are no ribs on the outermost roof panels, and the ends are riveted. These ar

Cap, As others have noted, these are Train Miniature cars. The Stark Trees boxcar with wooden ends might be convertible to a number of prototypes, especially if you shave off the grabs and don't count

Tim, Thanks much. I have heard of Molco, but never used any of their products. Sounds like it's time to visit their website. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆

Tony and Bruce, I would love to go the other way and lengthen a Kadee 40' Morton running board to 50'. Most Western Pacific/Sacramento Northern/Tidewater Southern 50' PS-1s had Morton running boards,

Steve, Thanks much for the ORER listing. I saved it in my "Scavenged Freight Car" file alongside the photo. Never can tell when this might be useful again. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆

Sam and Friends, My parents lived in Roseville, just a block from the eastbound yard throat. They were thankfully beyond the danger zone, which was closer to the west end where the explosions flattene

Friends, Mel pointed out that I had inadvertently posted the photo of TKX 700 as a tif instead of a jpeg. Well, I had the jpeg up on my screen, but clicked on the wrong link. In case any of you couldn

Friends, I've been perplexed for a number of years by several tank car photos I've scavenged for possible future models (Yeah, right!). Today I spent a couple of hours playing detective, and can offer

Bob, Not an answer to your question, but in the 1970s I remember seeing WP 50' boxcars in Sacramento Northern's West Sacramento Yard that were stenciled as restricted to scrap battery loading. Lead is

Friends, That is a neat history Rich Yoder came up with. Saltville, Virginia, was the home yard for at least some of these cars (says so in at least one photo) at the end of a N&W branch. Mathieson Al

Ben and Tim, IIRC the old AHM body with the separate ladders and a 7' door was 10' IH. I think this car was reissued by Model Power or somebody with the ladders and grabs cast in place. There was an a

Tim, As I said, Jim Eager's book shows photos of both a 10' and a 10' 6" IH car from the leased D&RGW series. It was apparently a mixed bag. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆

Scott, Let me add that AFAIK, the only Rio Grande 40' steel boxcars appropriate to our era of interest were Pressed Steel 12-panel, solid side sill cars with a 10' 4" IH and 6' doors. The closest mode

Mike and Scott, Correct. D&RGW 50150-50499 were leased from USRE in 1966. They were a mixed bag of rebuilt cars, some with a rare 10' IH from the New Haven, and others 10' 6" IH. There are photos of b

Ed, The C&H car does not carry full dimensional data, or does it have enough to meet some minimum standard for interchange in the 1936 time frame? Despite having incomplete information, it is marked w

Friends, Yesterday while thrashing around on the web in old copies of CALIFORNIA HIGHWAYS AND PUBLIC WORKS magazines, I ran across this mid-1930s photo taken at Roseville on the SP. It shows what appe

Claus, Before there were the steel covered hoppers we know and love, bulk granular and powdered materials were sometimes shipped in LT (with loading equipment) and LTA (without loading equipment) "tan