Hello everyone- I recently restored some patterns I made for the Great Northern's rebuilt-from-boxcars 40' stock cars. The 55200-55450 series, totaling 250 cars, were rebuilt from 31000 series of sing

Hello everyone- I recently restored some patterns I made for the Great Northern's rebuilt-from-boxcars 40' stock cars. The 55200-55450 series, totaling 250 cars, were rebuilt from 31000 series of sing

I have the 10 cars reserved. Thanks for those folks. My plans don't have me making more than these 10 cars. Thanks, -Andy On Wednesday, June 9, 2021, 5:53:19 PM PDT, Andy Carlson <midcentury@sbcglobal

The Great Northern had 1000s of early 1920s wood side box cars which had fishbelly structured underframes and early style of steel ends. In 1952 the GN initiated a rebuild of these cars into more usef

I saw that Q car years ago (around 1991) while visiting "Red" Vilryl Davis, a great RR freight car photographer who was a great sharing person. I believe his job was as a radio D.J. Sad news hearing o

It has been sold. Thanks, -Andy Carlson Ojai CA 93023 On Wednesday, June 2, 2021, 7:14:27 PM PDT, Andy Carlson <midcentury@...> wrote: Hello- I have an older, new unbuilt Red Caboose undecor

Hello- I have an older, new unbuilt Red Caboose undecorated kit, RC-8002, a single 6' door W-corner post '37 AAR box car kit. This is old and dates back to when the undecs were cast in a box car reddi

Thanks, these have all been sold. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA Hello- Found on the cover, a photo on Ted Cullota's book "Focus on the Freight car, vol 10", of a 1935 photo of a West Coast gasoline company ta

Hello- Found on the cover, a photo on Ted Cullota's book "Focus on the Freight car, vol 10", of a 1935 photo of a West Coast gasoline company tank car. Cover picture was taken in Los Angeles. I had a

One more ride on the horse from me advising the use of the Branchline Models' Yardmaster '37 AAR kit; its use for a Chad Buckeye end. Unlike the other two formerly easily available '37 AAR box car kit

In 1928, the Barnsdall-Rio Grande Oil Co. built an iconic gas station on the edge of their site of the very profitable Ellwood Beach oil field. Their colorful RGOX tank car, featured on the cover of "

Maybe 4096? ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Chris Barkan <cplbarkan@...> I am thinking it looks like 4085. See enhanced photo attached.

I saw that the image was somehow dropped out of my message.Try this again. On Friday, May 7, 2021, 8:15:53 AM PDT, Andy Carlson <midcentury@...> wrote: Maybe this has been shared before, but

Maybe this has been shared before, but a color shot of a framed type X tank car in LA's Taylor yard deserves some re-viewing. WCHX 4095 with AB brakes, believed to be circa 1958. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

As Tony stated, "......rebuilding on most railroads faded away after 1948." A notable exception was the Great Northern--whose large rebuilding programs came to be with a warp speed after the early 195

The sheer knowledge, accompanied with huge willingness to help, makes this io group especially great. Our own truck specialist, Brian Leppert helped me years ago quickly ID the two most common post wa

A good way to jump into the resin casting pond is to go to an auto parts store and purchase JB Weld original epoxy and a tube of Loctite, Permatex or other high temperature 1200 degree exhaust gasket

Oakview, California is pronounced 'Oak View' Fresno California is pronounced 'Fres No' What a wacky state this is! -Andy Carlson Ojai, CA Pronounced 'O-hi' _._,_._,_

How long has it been since we heard from Mike Brock? -Andy Carlson Ojai CA On Monday, April 19, 2021, 10:08:59 AM PDT, Benjamin Hom <b.hom@...> wrote: Nelson Moyer wrote: "It must be a pretty slow

Looks like N&W 95762 to me. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA On Monday, April 12, 2021, 1:23:19 PM PDT, Claus Schlund \(HGM\) <claus@...> wrote: Hi List Members, We get a nice view of N&W coal hau