All- As promised, here is a letter from the American Railway Association dated September 12, 1923 making assignment of the reporting marks for use of the John H. Grace Company. The business of the com

All- Guy is correct. I have a copy of a letter that granted Grace Tank Car line their reporting marks. I'm not at my main computer to access it right now and it was likely predecessor ARA given the au

All- Aristo-Craft was one of the main importers of "New One" so Eric might be correct. The crew members have been very loyal to the #234; they should be rewarded with a new assignment or get a nice re

All- 'New One" in Japan made zamac cast locomotives. The boiler/cab is reminiscent of a Roundhouse /MDC 0-6-0 but it would have been too short for a 4-6-0. Not Varney, Bowser, Penn Line or Mantua. A m

Even more helpful would be mention of scale and track gauge given it is lettered for Rio Grande. A grab shot with a cell phone would take less than a minute and might get an answer without a flurry of

All- My comment was from the perspective of a student of Model Railroad product decisions. That somebody decided it would be a good decision to seemingly randomly flip open a Cyclopedia and tool up a

Anybody notice that the PFE express reefer has the Lionel MPC weird trucks! Charlie VLK

I still to this day do not like car ferries on Lake Michigan.... .....we were returning from a cruise to Door County and were in a very dense fog on our sailboat Aeolus (named and lettered for the CB&

All- Thanks for the side trip into Railroad Terminolgy. Turns out that the question was raised by a faulty memory on the part of the researcher…he remembered “magazine” when the reference was “journal

All- What item pertaining to railroads would be "a magazine". This is in the context of an item of value that could be sold by a thief.....not a publication. Asking for an author who is attempting to

Ben and all- It is more complicated and probably beyond the scope of this group to do a complete genealogy anyway… Some McKean cars went through other owners and Con-Cor ended up with a couple of item

All- Note that the kit is rendered differently in the HO and N Scale versions. In N the car is too small to be trying to straighten spaghetti Z framing and seems it would have been better to do the si

Ray- Thanks for providing the photos! I think the one that I remembered was one of them. I will share this with Rupert Gamlin, our resident (New Zealand!!!) CB&Q Freight Car Roster Expert. I will have

Of course I can’t lay hands on it at the moment but I recall seeing a photo of a Armour or Swift stock car that was of CB&Q heritage, possibly a SM16 36’ steel framed car or one of the wood framed loo

Wiliiam- I am a CB&Q guy, and just mentioned the PRR and Reading cars because I appreciate their architecture as opposed to some other road’s cars which can be awkward appearing. Thanks! Charlie Vlk

Bill- Thanks for the update! The PRR cars, along with the Reading, are pretty attractive examples of the type. I hope to eventually get the 2D drawings into the hands of somebody that can work them up

What Bobber Caboose? The recent eBay offering of a J. Harold Geisel pencil sketch (different from another that I picked up at a train show shortly after his passing) of the CB&Q NM2 that appeared n MR

All- I would be interested in learning more about the NP bobbers based on the Q design. From the photo it looks more like a 20’ NE1 than the 25’ NE2. The NE2 was the one that appeared in MR in a 1954

The improper securement of tracked equipment on flat cars was the cause of a serious wreck on the CB&Q. On April 3, 1947 at 10:40pm a International Harvestor TD-18 fell off of Southern 51327, a 54”-2”

All- Horses today must be different. Most all of the horse trailers / transport trucks I pass on the highway have horses looking out the window seemingly enjoying the scenery. But I agree that horse c