John, looks like Staffan's photo got stripped from his message, but Ron Merrick is correct. I checked all the photos I had where you could see the end, and only the cars that had been rebuilt after 19

Those are fabulous, Eric. The only things I know about NKP are from Emery Gulash's 1960s video footage and Tony Koester's articles on his own layout. What might these have hauled? Doug Polinder Lowell

Charlie, Portland Car & Foundry has decals for GN scales and repack data: https://www.myhotrains.com/PDF/140923/02-DECALS1-Standard.pdf?x24143 Doug Polinder Lowell MI

Andy, I don't disagree. But GN had a few series of 10'2" IH cars and as far as I can tell the only source is C&BT 12-panel 40-footers. Other manufacturers offer either 10'0" or 10'6". Put a 10'2" car

Bill, that is a splendid model. Please tell us more about how you built the rest of it. Doug Polinder Poquoson VA

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Andy, might you be referring to Snoqualmie Falls? I'm not aware of any falls on the Snohomish River. The Snoqualmie and Skykomish rivers converge to form the Snohomish. The Skykomish is known to steam

Alex, thanks for the post. Some of us remember and lament the loss of the MIGN and Chief (I rode the former from Rockford to Cedar Springs). Are you saying Chicago was a gateway for MIGN? How did they

Alex, thanks for this amazing anecdote. I rode a Michigan Northern excursion in 1983 from Rockford to Cedar Springs. Also rode the C&O car ferry to Kewaunee (or maybe Manitowoc? don't remember) in 198

Tom, I think the line from North Van to Squamish along Howe Sound was completed in 1955. A 1970s article in a Carstens pub (Railfan & Railroad, most likely) also described the furor when PGE started b

Tony, couple of possibilities. The yard in Vancouver is not identified. Walter Frost took pictures in various yards belonging to CN, CP, and GN. If this is a CP yard, the load could have traveled via

I found the attached photo of a poultry car in a book that the Lynden Tribune published in 1976 for the bicentennial celebration in my hometown of Lynden WA. I believe the original photo either belong

The Emery Gulash Wabash video (from Green Frog) has footage of St. Louis cars moving east in a Wabash train in the late 1950s or early 1960s. Doug Polinder Poquoson VA

This is only a month late, but PF&S is indeed the Prantles. I asked Denise (daughter, I believe) if it stood for Prantle Feed & Seed (their address on Ione in Eltopia WA, outside Pasco, is a typical E

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My observations of Pacific Northwest lumber traffic agree with Chuck Soule's sightings in Tacoma. GN received interchange cars from CN at New Westminster BC, and I believe CN forwarded cars from PGE t

Warren Wing's _A Northwest Rail Pictorial II_ (Edmonds, Wash.: Pacific Fast Mail, 1991), p. 95, shows an NP banana train heading south at Black River WA (between Seattle and Tacoma) on July 16, 1962.

I second Ian Cranstone's suggestion for a GS gon. The Detail Associates model, out of production these many years, nicely lent itself to modeling almost any Western road with its choice of Dreadnaught

Paul, In Four Ways West's GN Equipment Color Pictorial vol. 2, p. 77, there is a picture of a GN "well" flat, #60029 from series 60000-60032, with a propeller load being unloaded in Seattle c. WWII. I

Doug, Wonderful interview; thanks for preserving that for us. Note that the origin of feeder calves to which the gentleman referred is Marfa, Texas, not "Marva." This is on the Espee just west of Pais

Allen is referring to, I believe, the sidebar on p. 89 in Ted Culotta's fourth installment of the Essential Freight Car series in the July 2003 RMC on NP's double-sheathed boxcars. In the same issue o