My first “guess” would be Parrish/Dana in Reading PA as they manufactured auto and truck frames. The Reading did serve Mack Trucks in Allentown but I don’t recall ever seeing any truck frame cars. I h

Sorry I have NOT priced these yet. Just digging them out as part of a move of trains from one house to another. Would consider selling everything... you may offer but please give me a chance to work u

Barry, We quarter inch scale modelers are blessed by a complete series of the different variants of NYC and clone cars in brass thanks to the late Pat O’Boyle and Pacific Limited. They include the NYC

Clark, To turn the car into the standard NYC car you’d need to replace the N&B’s 3-panel door with the reinforcement plate with the standard NYC three panel door or an appropriate NYC Youngstown repla

Thank you gents. We're O scalers so some of us don't get out as much as we should. I'll mention this all to the gentleman who asked the original question and he will most likely have to apply the find

I did a search but could find nothing conclusive - is there a specific time period or car series for the UP change from FCR to yellow for stock cars? I'm a right coaster but a fellow O scaler asked th

Perhaps someone can school me - with Shapeways is it possible to order items upscaled? I’d surely be interested in a set in quarter inch scale for the IM O scale gon. Rob Mondichak

Ted Schnepf of Rails Unlimited offers the Wabash car in O scale resin. You might contact him and see if his decal source can downscale and print you a set in HO. Rob Mondichak

In lieu of the RPCYC- From one of our own: https://old.atsfrr.org/Reviews/HO/Freight/IRM%20BX-37%2043/Index.htm Rob Mondichak

Interesting. The Memohead must be post-1901 since it has an "Automatic" telephone number for the Chicago exchange. Automatic Electric was related to the Illinois Telephone and Telegraph and the Chicag

I usually justify my SP/GN/Milwaukee single sheathed boxcars since they were often seen spotted at lumberyards in my neck of the woods with lumber products. I know (or think I know) I've seen pictures

We in O scale are blessed to have a wonderful and accurate scale model of G-50-9/12 GS gons in brass courtesy of the late Pat O'Boyle and his Pacific Limited. Beautiful models and a signature of the w

My, my. Bulldog Macks and fabricated steel everywhere. The end shot of the gon on the curve is interesting. The off-tracking due to the radii is oh so evident (photo *5042). Rob Mondichak.

In one of the postwar atomic testing videos online (can't remember which one) there is an absolutely beautiful waterfront scene with an SP steam switcher working a cut of cars at the dock with carload

Not sure that Pat O'Boyle had volumes of FGEX material but what he did offer in O scale brass freight cars was pretty impressive in the fidelity arena for the time period and still well sought after.

If we only had an SU with these in O scale! https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/36164589165/in/album-72157649155982802/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/35360614223/in/album-721

To me they are new news. ! Some pretty interesting finds in there Peter. Thanks! C&IM and MRS Mathers, an HCRR NYC steel clone and a wild looking Illinois Northern double door single sheathed car. And

Nice work with the photos, Claus. Always something interesting in your treasure hunts. Looks similar to, if not the same car, that Norm Buckhart just had done in O scale: https://www.protocraft.com/ca

Bill, Will you be covering this in your upcoming book? Those of us in O scale are blessed with a nice ACF type I that was done in an as-built configuration by WBM in brass at the behest of Mike Hill.

HI Tim, I just found my C&NW MOD-1 decal set and it has only the ACF and PS cars builders photos. The ACF car 73348 was built 5/42 with the Route of the 400 and the PS built 71342 was built 11/41 with