Question for the group on this photo cited by Bob Chaparro back on the 17th: https://californiarevealed.org/islandora/object/cavpp%3A112263 The brake wheel arrangement (vertical staff or horizontal mo

Follow up: As of 12:30PM Eastern Time, the railcarphotos.com site appears to be to be back up and running normally. A search I performed worked correctly as well. Cheers, George Irwin

For what it's worth, at 9:30AM Eastern Time on August 20, I tried to access railcarphotos.com and was met with a "500 Internal Server Error." These problems usually get straightened out relatively qui

With respect to the Oscar Mayer car, if I recall correctly from my late father's accumulation of HO trains, the folks at Athearn did a car similar to the retouched photo Claus referenced. It had red s

The ORER for April 1952 shows the group Erie 7220 to 7224 with five cars, AAR Designation FM, capacity 180,000 pounds. (Just visible in the photo.) The next set, 7230 to 7234, are FMs with a capacity

This is great! Researching history can be fascinating. And incidentally, one of the overhead shots in the full blog post shows a neat switching puzzle for, of course, Steam Era Freight Cars. Thanks fo

Could that be a Lehigh Valley "wrong-way" boxcar first in the line of cars on the track near the center of the photo? --George Irwin

Bruce Griffin courteously provided the link to the MRH color matching guide: The link to the MRH Guide is https://www.testors.com/~/media/DigitalEncyclopedia/Documents/Testors/ebook/MRH-Acrylic-painti

True, K4 has both their own website and an eBay store. I purchased two sets directly through their website since I'd rather support them that way-- fewer "deductions" if you know what I mean. There is

As I said, the [2010-2019] discs are copy protected. You cannot copy them to any memory device. Nelson Moyer Well, that just saved me a few dollars. I guess I'll stick to the Paper-Based Archives. --G

Most Dollar Tree outlets (somehow still considered "essential" here in Western New York) sell four small tubes for -- yes, a dollar. I consider them to be "single use" containers. Use caution with the

I don't know if this will work with the 2010-2019 archive, however I installed the 1934-1999 archive from the four (!) DVDs onto a USB 64MB "stick." I then access the entire archive from there. It is

Unloading 'coal' (looks like cinders or gravel to me) - MP USRA gondola https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsa.8a03846/ I dare say (and it IS "dare" in this group!) that the 1960's tooled Bachmann/

In case anyone missed the Special Notice posted here, the Toronto RPM has in fact been postponed. George Irwin

A "recommend" from me for the Toronto RPM. It's relatively small but has been growing. Several historical societies are attending this year. This is the geographically closest one to me (international

Hi Gang, The Gibson Wine Company of California leased a number of tank cars, at least single and four-compartment versions, from General American. Given its colorful paint scheme featuring a depiction

I'm particularly intrigued by the location of this photo since I can trace my heritage to Hoboken. If I'm not mistaken, this is the southernmost end of the Hoboken Manufacturers Railroad, later known

Seymour also had at least one leased refrigerator car from the Northern Refrigerator Car Company. It's pictured on Page 105 of the book "Billboard Refrigerator Cars." Not surprisingly, the paint schem

Going back to the original question for a moment, if the Classic Trains digital version is anything like the Model Railroader digital archive on DVD, I would probably advise against purchasing it. The

Thanks for sharing. I just did a compare to the N Scale Roco aka Atlas First Generation / Roco / Walthers tooling... The 1:160 car is not bad for a model first offered more than fifty years ago, but n