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

Tom Molsen, Thank you for those links. How about a product review? I built the Sylvan slabside a few years ago and it went together fairly nicely, except that I screwed up the horizontal plate of the

Bob Lucas asked: "Anyone know what trucks were found on CPR's smooth side covered hoppers (CP 380000-380200)? These were the original series with 10-hatches built by National Steel Car in 1948. Also,

Rob, In the Pentrex (née Video Rails) Great Northern videos filmed by GN employee Tony DeRosa over a 20+ year period, Mr. DeRosa allows his camera to follow briefly the passage of a WIF&S boxcar; IIRC

Jim, A quick perusal of the Microscale catalog suggests one or two choices for the Lackawanna DF that may or may not be close enough. One is from a Milwaukee set and is white italic: http://www.micros

On 2/18/09 Larry Wolohon posted: I think a disclaimer is needed here. Larry per his signature is modeling Whitefish MT, on the GN east-west mainline between Seattle and St. Paul. The vast majority of

I wanted to make the First Gear TD-25 dozer (q.v. http://www.firstgearreplicas.com/category.cfm?catID=2233, nice for a 50s-era layout or later if weathered) a load for a P2K flatcar, but the blade is