Richard Stoving is very much alive and I hope to confirm this on the NYCSHS conference call tomorrow. We are more than pleased to have his knowledge and humor. Frank Bongiovanni

Judging by the appearance of those cars and the date of the picture, they could very well be Virginian “battleship gons” that were sold by the railroad and used as storage bins or scrapped. The railro

Apologies for dragging this out. A few years ago we developed a clinic on Estate Planning for Model Railroaders, and I ended up giving it at several conventions, including the National here in Clevela

Apologies if I've posted this before, and apologies to those of you who need another list like root canal, but: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/traintools/info Yep; exactly what it sounds like. Ab

At the risk of opening up a can of worms, for those of you not familiar with it: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/traintools/info Frank Bongiovanni

Mike; took forever to dig it up. We were working on a book on the High Capacity Gons of the three Pochahontas roads [the term "battleship" for these is another discussion], and our best information on

Since Ben says his library is in storage, and since he helped me when I was researching VGN coal cars, I think I can help. Based on the best information we've gotten on these cars so far: VGN leased a

Dennis: modeling the Virginian, I'm very glad you did the Canton hopper. [yes, it's not quite correct for Virginian, and yes, the Virginian only had it in the original configuration for a few years. I

Ben, Fred, thanks for the info. Kitbashing one of those monsters is way down the road. We're doing a comparison of the three Pochahontas road's HiCapGons, and also a look at the models. The one-off's

Haven't found this in the archives, and my black letter on white paper sources are unclear. I'm doing some research on high capacity gondolas (Gene Huddleston has convinced me not to call them "battle

Thanks Chuck. Haven't found what I was looking for, yet, but there's a lot of good stuff there. Appreciate it. Frank Bongiovanni

Tried this on the Virginian group without success. Working on a clinic for the NWHS convention next year. Are there any photos out there of a) the 70 ton H-5 three bay hoppers after they were rebuilt

Does anyone know anything about Pennsy H21 hoppers that might have been leased by the VGN at some point? We have heard a photo exists, but we have not seen one. This has been kicked around, and what w

Just uploaded a spreadsheet and a writeup on Virginian hoppers. When I did this last fall for the NWHS and Virginian groups I said I'd post a copy on this list, but there was no room. Now there is. A

On September 28th, 2006, through October 1st, the Cleveland area will be host to the first Van Sweringen Advisory Mechanical Commitee(AMC) joint convention. This convention will include the annual con

Bill, as a quick answer: The H-12 is a 55T "34 foot" 8 panel hopper, and, to my eye, the Accurail or the flat end Athearn works. Marty Swartz's VGN resource guide suggests the Walthers, with some rese

This information is believed to be current. VGN diagram books published by TLC are available from the N&W Historical Society and the C&O Historical Society. I believe that for the VGN TLC published on

The adhesive you saw at the S gauge convention in Ohio a few years ago was (probably)"Sinbad". Bought a pack and never got around to using it. A current Google search indicates that he may have gone o