On the other hand, I recall when Life-Like brought out their initial HO kits there was much bitching and moaning about the price…don’t recall the exact price point, but it was a few bucks more than th

Tony- Kadee and Micro-Trains are legacy Made in the U.S.A. businesses and God bless them for being able to keep them prospering. They were fortunate to be in places and circumstances outside of the cu

I certainly can’t argue with Dennis as he has intimate firsthand real experience on all sides of the discussion and ocean. I think the consumer might underestimate the system design and supervision th

This subject comes up every so often…..and the answer is not going to be any different. Packaging kits, especially nowadays with products with many discrete add-on parts of differing media, is more th

Please excuse the off-topic cross posts but somebody might be able to help me with a search for a book I fondly remember from my childhood. In the 1950s I used to spend hot summer days in the air-cond

All- Just to complete the off-topic part of this jaunt, the design was used for a bunch of 2-8-2s for different South American countries and even for Africa. Getting back to rolling stock, apparently

Eric and List- Here you go…Chilean State Railways meter gauge built in April of 1923: 56379 1923 4 2-8-2 19 24 48 Chilean State Railways 3511 meter ga., 56381 1923 4 2-8-2 19 24 48 Chilean State Railw

All- Probably the highlighting added was so the section of fence would show up when printed in a newspaper. The real alteration was likely in the facts…the fence section looks to be about 10 feet long

There is a cabinet card currently on eXxx showing an early Great Northern caboose with dark color drop shadows on lighter color lettering. The car body might be varnished natural wood or perhaps a sha

Without a side by side comparison of the myriad of such 40’ gondolas I would be hesitant to state that it is the old XXX tooling. In fact, I wouldn’t necessarily credit (blame) Varney for starting thi

All- This wreck picture has drawn comments from both the STMFC and EarlyRail groups so please excuse the dual post…. The CB&Q leased in late 1878, then purchased, ten National Steel Tube box cars buil

All- It looks like it reads: Loaded From “This Side” (caps and lower case as typed, quote marks on lower line and centered). Charlie Vlk

All- If anyone has the stenciling drawing for CGW alpha and numeric characters I would be happy to work up the lettering for both cars. I don’t have any immediate project for them but a couple of frie

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All- I could not tell from the photo if the car had riveted sides. I sent out the reply before looking at Clark’s post. Charlie Vlk

Schuyler- It doesn’t appear that the entire issue was copied, just the pages relevant to the Milk Run article. Charlie Vlk

Brian- It appears you need to look for a 10’-6” IH AAR box car with a Youngstown door. Need to check if the roof is a Viking or some other type. You might get lucky and find a C&NW that only needs to

Schuyler- When I saved it I saved each png page individually with the name Milk Run A etc. Charlie Vlk

All- I was away from my computer when I made my post that the “car” was a CB&Q Bomber Box. They were included in BRHS Burlington Bulletin #15 along with O Scale drawings of the box and the FM-14 flat

All- The “car” in question is not a car at all.....it is a CB&Q “bomber box” which was a housing applied to Q flatcars to carry B-29 fuselage sections to final assembly. There are drawings and a full

Nelson- Even though their were 1500 composite GMs built they were largely gone by our lifetime. A few survived in MOW service. The first batch was built by Western Steel Car & Foundry in 1925 as GM-1