Vince Altiere asked: "Looking at that photo, it appears that the car farthest from the camera has a door that opens to the left. Do you know what B&O class of boxcars that might belong to? I wasn't aw

Scott McDonald asked: "The photo below was posted on the Rio Grande Historical Society Facebook page by Parker Wilson from his collection. I am reposting here with his permission. Does anybody know wh

Brian Shumaker wrote: "American La France firetruck Co., in Elmira NY? These cars were made, I believe, just for them." Car (singular). PRR 59861, Class X30. http://prr.railfan.net/freight/PRRdiagrams

Tony Thompson asked: "List members, I have two ancient flat cars, both the same, with a wood body, cast (Zamac?) underframe, and a steel sheet body wrapped around the wood. The plastic AB brake parts

Brian Shumaker wrote: "From photographs it seems one can almost assume that the all-steel cars probably were built with galvanized roofs and many wood-sided cars and some railroad manufactured cars (P

Claus Schlund asked: "I need a little help from the ACL experts that might be on this list. The model of a USRA double sheathed boxcar shown in the link below has a round ACL herald of a form I have n

Ken Soroos wrote: "The last three kits on the list seem to be special Sunshine runs commissioned by RPI. They are in the same type white boxes as the Sunshine kits and have similar labels. Note that t

Gary Laakso wrote: "The bottom sill sure has the ear marks of a Train Miniature boxcar." ...except the one on BR&P 4500 is inset, and the one on the Train-Miniature DS boxcar protrudes beyond the shea

Peter Hall asked: "Has anyone ordered from Bowser in the past few days? Their website doesn't seem to be working, and I was wondering if it's only a temporary problem, or something else?" Just accesse

Andy Carlson wrote: "B&O #17000. A mostly steel box car." Eric Hansmann asked: "Would this early boxcar have steel or iron sheathing?" Iron. From the B&O Railroad Museum website: http://www.borail.org

Phil asked: "I missed out on the Sunshine minikit to model a NYC MDT hopper (similar to the USRA design but with offset sides). Does anyone know of a way to model this hopper? I will likely need at le

Phil asked: "I missed out on the Sunshine minikit to model a NYC MDT hopper (similar to the USRA design but with offset sides). Does anyone know of a way to model this hopper? I will likely need at le

Bob Chaparro wrote: "Photo: PRR Hopper Cars Receiving Coal A photo from the Historic Pittsburgh website: https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt%3A200905.233.HF/viewer " This is actually

Bob Chaparro wrote: "Photos: Pittsburgh, McKeesport & Youghiogheny Hoppers 63133 With Coal Loads Some 1917 photos from the Historic Pittsburgh website. Scroll on the photos to enlarge them. 63133 http

Jared Harper wrote: "You're alive! Since I have not heard a peep about you or from you I thought you might have croaked from Covid." Not funny. Greg Martin. Way too soon. Ben Hom

Wayne Cohen wrote: "In the distant past, I tried Kadee’s 2-56 Delrin screws to mount couplers. Many of the heads snapped off in normal use and I quit using them. Slot or Phillips head - same results."

Ray Hutchison asked: "Looking at a number of early photographs, what would determine whether the door would open to the right (which we think of as being correct) or opened to the left as shown here)?

Tim O'Connor wrote: "On Facebook a couple weeks ago someone posted pictures of BRASS models with slightly yellowed decals they wanted to correct. As an experiment the person placed the model in direct

Jack Wyatt asked: "I wonder what the body color was for the original Atlantic Coast Dispatch vent's?" Yellow, with red herald. Ben Hom

Bruce Smith wrote: "IIRC, the X30 was PRR's first end door car." Class X25A had end doors. http://prr.railfan.net/freight/PRRdiagrams.html?diag=LinesWestDiagrams_230.gif&fr=cl Ben Hom