Might make an interesting project for a mini-kit project for an RPM meet. Jim

http://resincarworks.com/ Jim Brewer

An address for Resin Car Works Please .Armand Premo

Another instance where I found a picture otherwise not discovered using a search with railroad terms on a non-railroad website. I think this one popped-up in a search using the term "factory". Bob Cha

Friends, A couple of weeks back we were discussing WP'S 29' coil gondolas here, and off-group as well. This month I am scanning up miscellaneous bits and pieces of paper, and ran across the attached a

John Golden builds a boxcar mini-kit in the latest Resin Car Works blog post. http://blog.resincarworks.com/building-the-rcw-illinois-central-boxcar-mini-kit/ Eric Hansmann RCW web guy

Interesting thread. I’ve learned a lot. I had Kalmbach “Freight Cars of the ‘40’s & ‘50’s” handy. The cover is a high angle color shot of a multi-track Chicago yard in 1942. If you have the book check

Dennis Storzek wrote: Certainly all true, but perhaps oversimplified. I was intrigued, reading issue after issue of _Railway Age_ in the first years of steel cars (up to World War I), how many article

I have always wondered if it wasn't an issue with the paints in use during different periods. During the era before WWI and 'tween the wars, the common freightcar paint was some sort of cheap pigment

I will look for the letters I read the following information from however as Richard Hendrickson used to say at the start of his presentations "to put all this in context". Context: The NP built 1000

Schuyler Larrabee wrote: True, unless you can seal the rust area so no more moisture gets to it (this is never 100 percent successful). But keep in mind that not being able to stop rusting, but stretc

Great picture Bob. We don't get to see very much T&NO stuff. Thanks.

Boston & Maine

Tony, whether they are “brittle” or not depends at some level on how thick the galvanizing was applied. I have seen galvanizing that would sheet off in large flakes, sometimes all the way down to the

Also it depends on your time frame. It was renumbered twice and the door was changed during its life. J. Stephen Sandifer

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

Schuyler Larrabee wrote: This is certainly true, though galvanized coatings are not brittle. Note also, though, that galvanizing often fails at sharp corners, for example along the edge of the raised

“The Santa Fe Modeler,” 2nd Qtr. 1989, p. 31 has an article by Keith Jordan on the model of 13000 that he made in HO scale. He laminated .010 styrene to an Athearn reefer shell stripped of its details

The joy is often in the journey and not the destination. Tom Madden

Several photos and descriptions on pages 187-191 of the Santa Fe ice reefer book. Built in 1946, scrapped in 1964. “The Super Chief to California” on one side, “El Capitan Coach Streamliner West” on t