Last week on the IO group OScaleYardsale a guy was selling these same decals in 1-48th. They should work perfectly on your HO bulk tanks. davo in Orlando

When I was stationed in Norfolk in the early 70s and would head home to NC, I'd take US13 through Suffolk and would sometimes take the alternate and turn left on Factory St. I always thought it was so

Sub bulkheads for 585 up through 688 classes would've been 33 feet in diameter and even larger with the newer ones. They would've been fabricated in the building yards along with the frames. See attac

I stand corrected. A faulty memory to be sure. A lady at Habley responded to my question and corrected the picture caption, but said, there was/is a hydrogen cyanide plant at that Dupont plant in Memp

Notice the picture caption says Hydrogen Cyanide. Seriously doubt that since the guy on the tanker has no respiratory protection. It was a hydrogen cyanide disaster at a Union Carbide plant that kille

What I think is cool about this photo is something I've never seen. The towers at the left across the tracks from the ship to which the ships rigging has been attached to allow a further reach for the

Agreed, on rolling stock I don't think the herald was ever used on any freight car or MOW equipment, but was used on observation car placards. It was used on diesel engines from onset of cab units and

I think these were giraffe cars. If you look closely, you can see the word "Lionel" in the corner of the car end. davo in Orlando

Good info. I could find nothing on it. davo in Orlando

I thought perhaps they changed from yellow to red when they changed from Atlantic Coast Despatch to Atlantic Coast Line on the cars, but I've got color pictures of ACD cars in yellow and red. Also, co

A buddy of mine built the car from ACL blueprints, so I assume he was correct in building the screen door on the left. The attached photo also shows it on the left, with the solid door closing the doo

Here's a shot on my 2-rail O-Scale RR of an ACL watermelon car. davo in Orlando

A little to the left, which would be east, is where the USN used to have three Minesweepers live. They were tied up next to a group of warehouses and were just down (west) the tital cut from a power h

ACL had Pullman Standard build them some boxcars with roof hatches in the 1960s to haul kailin. These steel cars had the bracing on the outside, were painted white or light grey and had red lettering.

In terms of ships at sea, they exhibit stresses caused by wave action. Two of these are longitudinal stresses; sagging and hogging which caused by a ship heading though waves and troughs. Sagging is w

The image was provided by Lockheed Martin which is a merger of Lockheed and Martin aircraft companies so it could be any of their planes, not Boeing planes. Agree wtih previous comment about wing cuto

Can anyone identify the structure with two or maybe three levels of track loading? I presume the top level is for trucks. Davo in Orlando

One thing I did notice, is that on the far side of the freight house, the switches have self guarding frogs; no guard rails on them; at least on those closest to the station. The one on the near side

Yes, that one definitely fits in my memory as opposed to the Reading elevator in my earlier post that was right on the water. Good job in finding that photo as I could not locate it. Your picture is o

That building the photo was taken from may have been a grain elevator. In May 1999 I flew up to Philly for a class in Trevose which is NE of Philly. Heading north on I-95 before getting to the Walt Wh