Okay, anyone modeling the Northeast PA or NYC area during WW2, here ya go: Power plants built for the Soviet Union in Berwick, PA: https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/albums/7215771217949625

Gents, If the Steam Era Freight Car Prototype Modeling community was the economic engine it thinks it is in the hobby, you'd have no problem finding any model you want from this era in any store, hobb

The John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library is uploading a new collection of images to Flickr. The Robert G. and Hansell Lewis Collection. Some photos are identified, some are not. Many are ste

Moving the Field Museum: Moving The Field Museum (1920) Moving The Field Museum (1920) The Field Museum Library's Moving The Field Museum (1920) set View on www.flickr.com Preview by Yahoo This is per

I will try to find this sequence in the scrapbooks and get a positive set of dates. I know Mr. Barriger was only on the TP&W for 6 months in 1942. (The Puerto Rico Shots on Flickr appear to be from th

Two shots of the same MAIN train. http://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/12240737696/in/set-72157640356985686# http://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/12240736386/in/set-72157640356985686/#

I've just flipped and cropped this photo if that can help anyone with the identification. Take Care -Nick Fry

Thank you Tony. We do want people to use these and anyone from a RR Historical Group who has asked about these for their magazine has been informed of our pretty generous conditions for use in those p

Take a gander here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STMFC/photos/album/855954353/pic/list We found these photos at the Barriger Library while cataloging our new B&A collection. No caption on the back. I

http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/html/gallery/home.shtml There is a section on ports and terminals from the steam era that folks will find interesting. Take Care -Nick Fry

Please accept my apologies for a non-technical post, but this seems to be a forum where I may get in contact with the person I'm looking for. If anyone on this list contacted the Barriger Library rega

Mike and all, This would be the "Riding the Rails" episode of "The American Experience" produced by WGBH in Boston. They have a companion website at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/r

Good evening, Ron Hoess and I both gave talks at RPM East in Malvern, PA this past weekend (March 26 to 28) on railroad research for prototype modeling. We've been talking after the event and have set

It seems that the operational aspects of coal traffic and the models for all railroads have generated a great deal of interest on this list. It might be worth taking this accumulated knowledge and dis

Hi Bob, The B&O Railroad Historical Society has initiated a fairly popular line of products like this from our archives. Particularly "Scans from the Archives Vol. 3," which contains painting and lett

Drawings start in 1926 for hopper cars, flat cars and gondolas, we have one 1955 conceptual drawing for an M-55 boxcar. Tale Care -Nick Fry Archivist Director at Large BORRHS http://www.borhs.org <dur

The B&O Railroad Historical Society is happy to announce that a selection of steam era B&O Painting and Lettering Diagrams are now available via our new publication "Scans from the Archives Vol. 3" A

You may also find this resource useful: http://www.borhs.org/Archives/keysercardept.pdf The 1948 Keyser Car Shop photo book. Pages 31 and 32 have good shots of N-17s in the 13 Great States Scheme. Tak

Perhaps the solution is to begin some collaborative indexing project in the group. There seems to be a varied geographic distribution of members and distribution of railroads modeled and historical so

Dear Joel, This may be a document you'll find useful. It is available from the B&O Railroad Historical Society company store at http://www.borhs.org: Item # 72055: B&O Officers Inspection Trains. Buff