The SFRM&HS' SANTA FE OPEN-TOP CARS, by Richard Hendrickson, has photos of the GA-53 cars on pages 146-148. While most of the underside stuff is hidden in the shadows, a couple of the photos do show w

no photos :-( Bill Keene Irvine, CA

This PRR … Panama Rail Road … dates from around 1849. It was constructed with 5’-0” gauge track. The current railroad is the Panama Canal Railway that started operations in 2001 after rebuilding the r

The link took me to FB … but … there was a button asking if I wanted to leave FB. It got pushed and the web site linked page came up. Not a problem. As I want nothing to do with FB I am very pleased t

I have been told that the MKT also shipped cantaloupes north from Texas in stock cars. Unfortunately, I do not have any documentation on this. I believe that cantaloupes and watermelons were loaded on

WeTransfer is also a very good service … easy to use … and free. Cheers, Bill Keene Irvine, CA

Charlie, Lookin’ Good! Thank you for adding to my meager modeling knowledge base. Cheers & Happy Modeling Bill Keene Irvine, CA

I have been away from this thread for a day, but someone mentioned that the lumber was being unloaded … I assume the statement referenced unloading from ship to rail. Looking at the photos and the mar

Thank you for sharing your RIP Track work. Wonderful. Thank you also for setting a bar to work toward. It is great to have good examples to follow. Cheers, Bill Keene Irvine, CA

All of this talk about unbuilt kits got me to thinking about what is still on the shelf… At present there are 35 unbuilt resin kits + 47 unbuilt plastic kits + six kit-bashes in various stages of modi

Thank you Mike for your additional comments. I understand what you are trying to accomplish. It is most likely that these cars by the time they reached 1965 did have a number of modifications and repa

Lookin’ good. Not sure that I would thicken the decal very much or at all. Remember, in HO scale the patch plate of 1/4 inch thickness would only be 0.00275 of a real inch when reduced to scale size.

Tom, Yes. This may turn into a small scratch building project. Drawings would be a great help. Thanks & Cheers, Bill Keene Irvine, CA

Easy to answer… First, I was looking for a car that required the least revision to the factory lettering. Using the car I purchased would require only revising the reporting initials and numbers. The

I recently picked up a Kadee model of their 11,000 gallon 105A pressure tank car to model a car in the SHPX 1800-1941 number series, ACF Lot 3365, as a car leased to Phillips Petroleum Company. I chos

Doug responded before I was awake this morning. Thank you, Doug. Cheers, Bill Keene Irvine, CA

I will repeat that during the 1950s — early 1960s the oil distributors in the Oklahoma town the family lived in were without fences. But there is always an exception… The attached photos—kindly provid

Please. Please. Yes. And Thank You. Cheers, Bill Keene Irvine, CA

They grow ‘em big in Kansas! Interesting about the car side boards. Perhaps non-seasoned lumber still with a high moisture content was used. Cheers, Bill Keene Irvine, CA

When I have purchased a couple of Clark’s offerings I have told him that he can keep the Kadee couplers as I use Sergents and would just be tossing the Kadees. Better that they go to another use than