Hi Clark, The worst part of those kits are the decals, raised from an iffy photo from the Whittaker collection. The thin film is nice, but the artwork sucketh to the purist. They were in the 45000-459

I think it's a great modeling job. That photo required great examination, but a couple of things give it away. First is the track. Under a 40-foot boxcar on 39-foot rails would be at least a couple of

Al, Hal passed close to ten years ago. The negatives were made by a Newton resident. Mike

Lackawanna wasn't in the auto parts business and it served no big auto plants. We're not aware that the DF loaders were ever removed. DL&W autocars transported mostly new vehicles from factory to cust

Yes, the cars with ice hatches are Lackawanna Railroad milk cars, insulated and equipped for carrying cans. Mike Del Vecchio

Originally a Lehigh Valley boxcar, a steam-era rebuild from 1936. I never found the original number ....Mike Del Vecchio

Will fill some needs, nice. Bill Keene, how about starting to kitbash a 10' IH version to move that up on the Kadee list? Many of the features are common to this one. New Haven and Lackawanna had clos

About 1990 or so, with Chuck Yungkirth's help, I found the written New York State law about cabooses. As with most laws, the language didn't ban the four wheelers as much as it required that that any

Beautiful model, Bob, thanks. I must have missed the discussion on these ends, but glad to see the photo of the model. The freight yard is in Newark, NJ, on the Lackawanna early in 1926, accessed thro

Came across a photo of a freight yard, and one one of the tracks is the end of a gondola I hadn't seen before. I'm sharing it here so that others may see it, and so that some may be able to identify i

Came across a photo of a freight yard, and one one of the tracks is the end of a gondola I hadn't seen before. I'm sharing it here so that others may see it, and so that some may be able to identify i

Transfer jobs usually required shoving long strings of cars from departure tracks in one yard to arrival tracks in others, often to another railroad. For a trainman to ride the side of a boxcar over t

The embedded photo worked at this end. Could be an even more useful list if readers don't have to click and sign in for pictures. The photo below is by William B. Barry, Jr., working for the Lackawann

Testing the new group to see if embedded photos pass through it. There's one embedded below, as well as a link to it: http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-04-14-18/X4303.jpg ....Mike De

The DF was "Damage Free," a symbol of the Evans Products Company "DF" series of interior equipment on railroad-owned boxcars. This was usually a shelf-like arrangement for securing boxes or large quan

Hi Clark, I’m very interested in at least one. Pix, please? Thanks much. I like the previous cars from you very much. And they’re in my era. Mike Del Vecchio Sent from AOL Mobile Mail Get the new AOL

I was going to say it was a Merchandise Service X-29 as well. Came across an in-service photo of one of the Southern boxcars with the Hutchins end, dated 1923 from the Lackawanna glass plate collectio

Photo of DL&W 46929 is attached ....Mike

Coming to this party late, but none of this series of cars were rebuilt by DL&W. They were retired as wood-bodied cars. This series had Youngstown doors. The F&C resin model for these cars is quite fa

In the 19th Century and the early part of the 20th the west end of the Lackawanna railroad was Green Bay, Wisconsin. DL&W president Sam Sloan was also president or an officer of nearly 30 other railro