Bob Chaparro wrote: "Photo: PRR Livestock Car 135499 Photo courtesy of Carl Venzke. Gus Ubaldi commented: “According to 1953 Railway Equipment Register, it was the last of an 813 car order of converti

Bob Chaparro wrote: "Photo: NYC Gondola 329127 (1920) Photo from the Milwaukee Public Library: https://content.mpl.org/digital/collection/HstoricPho/id/4833/rec/30 You previously posted this on March

Bruce Smith wrote: "I will point out that the latest posting from Walthers says "New tooling" for the X29B, whatever that means." Craig Miller on the PRR list pointed out that the "new tooling" likely

Brian LaManna wrote: "Walthers announced an X29b in their Proto line but no model pictures have been included. They’re currently only offered for preorder in large sets. https://www.walthers.com/prr-m

Nelson Moyer asked: "I need an end view of the ACL 24000-24499 series showing the air hose hanger. A straight on B end view would be wonderful. Any other photos would be welcomed as I only have one si

George Courtney wrote: "Loved the photo. In the far right, almost upper corner are two small cars that are light in color and fairly short, but do not appear to be cabooses to me. Can anyone identify

Brian Ehni wrote: "Athearn made a model of one. http://www.athearn.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=ATH14582 Lacking a prototype photo, a more accurate statement would be "Athearn slapped 'Budlong Pic

Tim O'Connor asked: "When were ATSF Bx-12 box cars first rebuilt with raised roofs?" Quick answer - 1940s. Ben Hom

Scott MacDonald wrote: "Thank you for that color photographs! That is a much browner red then what I had envisioned. Would that be Tusc[a]n Red? Pretty car with fresh paint. That had to be labor inten

Chuck Cover wrote: "Here is a model of a PRR X42 that I kit bashed 25 years ago from an article by Herb Baer in the PRR Keystone #12.1, December 1978. The PRR X42 class was also covered by Chuck Yungk

Richard Stern wrote: "A neighbor gifted me this interesting depressed center flat car. It has no markings. Can anyone identify it and maybe provide a prototype photo? I'm guessing it is too modern fo

Richard Townsend wrote: "That reminds me: we need a source for 3/3/3 ends." Finally, to go with the other two answers by Garth Groff and Al Brown, one of the variants of the MDC 50 ft SS auto boxcar h

Chris S. wrote: "Says Coalburg Ohio. That was a ex LS&MS yard that was turned into a scrap yard.(Midwest Steel and Alloy Scrap) Erie's lone 44 tonner was the shop switchers and the first GG1 "rivets"

Ed Mims asked: "Tony Thompson is correct. In the real world they are not "stirrup steps" they are sill steps and always have been. Where did the name 'stirrup steps' come from?" The same place where "

Schuyler Larrbee asked: "Hey, isn’t that B&M composite very close to the Walthers gon that was getting so much disrespect on this list a week or so ago? Certainly in the “close enough” category." No.

Clark Propst asked: "I'm working on a Erie ARA 32 box car with Hutchins ends with no instructions. The only photo I have is of a 75000 series car with what appears to be 3 'innie' pressing per end pa

William Botkin asked: "Sorry if this has been covered previously, but is the Accurail 6-panel outside braced single sheathed boxcar in their 7000 series based on a specific prototype and if so which r

Tony Thompson wrote: "Not sure whose tooling this was originally, maybe LifeLike, but it ain’t an SP gondola. It’s an 8-panel car, numbered for SP Class G-50-2, but those were 14-panel cars, with two

Claus Schlund wrote: "So that we are all talking about the same thing, a picture is worth at least a thousand words, right? We are talking about something like what is shown in the link below, correct

Bob Chaparro wrote: "I picked-up a Walthers forty-foot SP gondola, stock # 932-3805. The very low price, replacement sill steps, replacement metal wheels and good weathering job were the selling point