Matt- I think you’ve done about the best you can do with the image of No. 13. I imported both images into Corel Draw and got the 23 sized about the same as 13 by putting a box around the AMERICAN STRA

All- More likely the box car was coupled to the end of the cut on the coal trestle. It had been unloaded (bagged coal or maybe stoves?) when somebody tried to add another car or maybe intended to remo

Sorry for repeating if this has been observed already, but even an “all metal” box car or reefer had a wood floor and liner that would burn very nicely. Charlie Vlk

Fenton- Yes, but I have no way to shrink them about 55 percent to N Scale!!! Charlie

All- Isn’t a three compartment tank smaller gallonage due to the extra tank bulkheads separating the compartments? That would make the 2K difference reasonable. Charlie Vlk

All- Note that the side number panels varied in size to suit the number of characters to be displayed. The early nose side number boards also varied in length for the same reason. The General Arrangem

All- I recall seeing such CB&Q cars in (probably) company service during the late 1950s and maybe into the early 1960s. Don’t recall the number series but it should be able to come up with them from t

All- Tony is correct….the Sanborn Maps often did not accurately or at all show railroad tracks as they had no direct impact on the fire information. That being said, the earlier ones can provide some

All- While the N Scale BLI K7a is nicely proportioned for some inscrutable reason the factory decided to cheap out and not cut the molds so the slats on the side had full gaps between the boards. Whil

Tony should be credited with being responsible for the creation of Broadway Limited Imports as well. Together with a Korean builder and QSI, he was behind the New York Central J3a and N&W Class A whic

All- Thanks to everybody who responded with their recommendations and experiences regarding slide and negative scanners! Thanks also to the moderators for letting the discussion run online for the edi

All- Does anyone have any experience with slide and negative scanners? My all-in-one copiers can do a decent job of digitizing photo prints but, even though a couple of them have slide processing capa

All- That door reminds me of the problem the CB&Q had between Cicero / Clyde Yard and Western Avenue Yard in Chicago for its trains and foreign road transfer runs. If a plug door or swing reefer door

Dave and All- The Erie had a freight house at 14th & Clark Street on the east bank of the south branch of the Chicago River which was south of the passenger terminals and the main business district of

All- The N&W boxcar looks like it has a door that closes to the inside of the car…I don’t recall seeing that arrangement before. It is also interesting to see how many early cars had what we would cal

All- I was just browsing on Facebook and found out that David Leider’s new book is available. http://boctbook.dhke.com/?fbclid=IwAR0Mfq20_JKSPeXHiJhridL-sEPakL8K3W9CXaJL3bAO0euRV81YfRLggzw Based on hi

All- Signode was one of the major suppliers of the strap systems IIRC. Charlie Vlk

How about stuffing in a block cut to size to fit the inside. Another way would be to use mastic like is used for lining fuel tanks or truck beds but I don't think it would be more effective than the s

Jack and All- Some retouched photos from “back in the day” are obvious but some were so skillfully done they are hard to detect. I have a couple that I actually thought about destroying because if the

Perhaps I misread that somebody was making a distinction between a flat with a well with a permanent floor and one with a well hole without a floor which inferred special sides that could support a lo