I have assisted in compiling this document. While it is called the 19th century paint color compendium, we have strayed into the 20th century as research provides information. https://docs.google.com/

I know a lot of folks here won't like this, but the attitudes of this board really don't reflect the majority of the hobby. Strict prototype modelers really are probably less than 20% of the market fo

An unused car is a liability. Not only does it make no profit, it costs money merely to store. Coal, like livestock and sugarbeets, is a seasonal commodity. Yes, there was a year-round demand for indu

As others have already provided ample evidence for, painting the trucks the same as the carbody was probably more common post-1900 than painting trucks black. Pre-1900, it was very common for the truc

The Standard Coal Company was located on the Denver & Rio Grande's Spring Canyon Branch in Standardville Utah. As the name indicates, it was a "standard city," one of the first built to a master plan,

Salt Lake City did not have any narrow gauge at all by the time this photograph was taken.

Some items of note about this photo, the large factory structure just across the river from the stockyards is the Swift packing plant. Livestock bought in the auction yard was easily taken across the

In answer to the original question, yes, I do know of many printed trucks that operate well. At this point in time, apart from being slightly more fragile (meaning only that you can't pry out the jour

The thin decks are a deficiency that has since been fixed. There is no reason to worry about it on future runs - the GSI 53'6" bulkhead flatcars had the new decks and I am told that future releases of

I think everybody is a bit confused here. Most of the photographs actually depict the standard 42'6" flatcars that were used in Caterpillar service. From what I have been told, GM&O listed them as 41'

Hi Ray, Evan shared it in the earlyrail list, which I did not notice until after I had responded to this list. Duplication should be tolerable, I think, since membership does not overlap between the t

Denver & Rio Grande painted their cabooses "brilliant red" starting in the 1870s. It was not until 1916 that they switched to a freight car brown. Basically, red cabooses have existed almost as long a

With the subject of this thread, and the question asked in the root thread about downloading, I should probably provide some context. TrainLife purchased the licensing from the copyright owners, which

The magazine archives are hosted on a different server from the main retail website and sometimes it disconnects. Usually the solution is to reset the server. Due to the Black Friday/Cyber Week sales

Regarding the "widget" - The Standard Coal Company operated in Spring Canyon northwest of Helper. The company town there was named Standardville, an experiment in standardized and sanitary constructio

How purple are we talking? I visited the Bell Hill fluorite mines in Utah two years ago, which you can see in this picture : https://www.flickr.com/photos/drgw223/42474153820/ And one of the undergrou

I know Parker and saw his scan of the slide. That is a silver painted car, I'm not sure how any of you are seeing red. It's a single door, not double. The D&RGW painted a few dozen (if I remember corr

The fluorite docks are long abandoned, since Geneva shut down a few decades ago. The elevator though is still active as far as I can tell.

I saw this image and thought "huh, that looks familiar." Then I realized that I literally drove past that elevator yesterday afternoon. You can see the location on google maps here: https://www.google

Photo was taken on the Inland Railway, which was owned by the Inland Crystal Salt Company. It was a tiny little line on the southern edge of the Great Salt Lake that interchanged with Union Pacific an