Wasn't these 2 kits based on the series of articles that Rail Model Journal published circa 1997 about oil distributors? I remember some of the articles had scale plans of oil distributor warehouses.

Allan, Thank you very much. Bill HIrt

I just had a friend call me and he has been given an Intermountain O Scale reefer kit to assemble. It is factory painted BREX. The kit has no instruction sheet(s). Does anyone have any of these reefer

Great Western Sugar built a sugar terminal facility in Western Springs IL in the late 1950s/early 1960s. This is on the CB&Q triple track mainline in the Chicago suburbs. The sugar shipped from this f

Looking at back at Eldon's original picture, it looks like the CB&Q crane is #204360 which was stationed at Galesburg. There is a picture of it (the reverse side in the late 1960s and repainted) in th

In Morning Sun's Rock Island Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment by Steve Hile, there is a picture on page 34 of a Rock Island Outside Braced Wood Sheathed boxcar set off and burning in Cot

Microscale still has decal sets available in HO and N scale for Gulf and Flying A. Dave's Decals has sheets for companies Microscale no longer offers and a number of the regionals. <https://www.davart

On the Burlington, the main purpose of the enlarged Mather cars was to haul hogs from western Illinois to Tobin Packing in Rochester and Albany NY. These cars could hold up to 200 hogs, so they were p

The Jacksonville Sanborn maps updated through 1949 are available on the Library of Congress web site: Here is the link to Volume 1a: <https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn01286_008/> Here is the link to Vo

St. Louis Keokuk & North Western. The "K" Line moniker was used by the CB&Q after it acquired the StLK&NW and is still used by BNSF today for the route from Burlington, Iowa, to St. Louis. The Burling

A friend is building the North Conway B&M depot based on a George Drury article in a 1988 Model Railroader. He painted the roof with a 50 year old bottle of Floquil PC Green (the classic square bottle

I wrote about this a few weeks ago. You can still get the real thing - Floquil Oxide Red - if that is the match you need. <http://www.narrowgaugemodeling.com/floquil-paint/> And yes, they are unopened

For those who still would like to use Floquil and Polly Scale, I found that Narrow Gauge Modeling Company sells unopened bottles. I recently purchased several bottles from them and they were in new un

Intermountain is one of his show's sponsors. That might have something to do with it. Bill Hirt

Yes. At one time Oddball Decals made them. He printed off an ALPS printer and sometimes you would need two sets to make sure they cover. Oddballs is out of business as far as I know and has been pursu

From the Sanborn maps, it appears that L Street is the overpass. That places the station along the UP tracks which UP called the Old Main Line. The UP is the nearest 3 tracks to the station. The stati

If you download the super high resolution version, there is a window in the car end along with the side. This looks to me like a boxcar that has been converted to MOW service. Sunkist Flour is painted

Ted, As Don Valentine pointed out, the Red Caboose Mather is a 36' car. From what I can see in the January 1953 ORER, there are only two of cars of that type listed in service under the Morrell listin

Nelson, Doug Harding can answer this question better. Morrell did daily (except Sunday) slaughter of cattle, hogs and sheep. And besides hanging sides of such, they also had packaged meats, dog food (

The May 1951 Ottumwa and Creston Division Employee Timetable shows that CB&Q Train 74 (labeled Daily except Sunday Meat) was scheduled to leave Ottumwa at 5:45 pm and arrive Galesburg at 9:45 pm. Ther