Rob, Not sure if this will help, but I did do a skim of the "Write Up Books" from the 1930s for South Tacoma for boxcar service, or accident repairs. The table below shows the car serviced, year, and

John, in his presentations Bill typically passed out a small slip of paper with the link to a Dropbox account where one could download his entire PowerPoint. He started doing this instead of printing

I'm guessing these are GE transformers, manufactured in Oakland. General Electric had a transformer plant in Oakland, CA starting in 1924. (5441 East 14th/ International Blvd). See "Project Background

Gentlemen, I have copies of Bill's Wood FGE Reefers and Steel FGE Reefers PowerPoint presentations. I believe they date back to around 2014. I'd be happy to share them with the group unless there is a

I built one of the kit years ago as we have a similar vinegar tank in the Toronto Railway Museum collection. The kit was a beast to build, but it eventually became a model I am proud of, and your frie

One end might resemble a single furnace Scotch Marine but with the furnace not coming out the other end, I cannot see it being a good anything at all. Not that I have seen every possible boiler but it

Bachmann HO Scale Boiler Does anyone know the prototype for the Bachmann boiler? Does it approximate any known boiler type? Ted Culotta discussed this boiler on his Prototype Railroad Topics blog and

The information cited applies to “managed payments sellers,” not to individual sellers. MPS appear to be stores. Most of us don’t fit that category. J. Stephen Sandifer

I’m curious about the repaint rates on these NP cars. Modelling 1946, I’m wondering whether the chance of seeing a car in the 1945 scheme still slim? It depends how fast the fleet of cars was re-paint

EBay is changing their setup for sellers, and eventually everybody will be required to use their managed payments instead of PayPal or other options. Buyers will be able to use PayPal as one of their

PayPal is no longer owed by e-Bay. It is its own publicly traded company. It trades on NASDAQ under the symbol PYPL. it closed Friday at $239.79 a share. Get Outlook for iOS

Nice photo to help sell your management on the benefits on purchasing steel under frame flat cars which were just appearing in the this time frame, Michigal Central early freight car photos are hard t

All - Chris Frissell's article is really well done, with a variety of weathering styles from moderate to 'is there any paint on that car?' His techniques are to be commended. I have just started weath

Many thanks to both of you. Jeff White Alma IL

Yes, if you needed a car NOW, you'd find the closest one that fits the requirements. The only exceptions would be not loading feed (bagged or bulk) into a car assigned to hide service, or flour into a

Thank you, Johannes, for your additional comments. Todd Sullivan

Hello Jeffrey, as Todd already mentioned - there is nothing to worry about by disassembling. As TRIX as a German manufacturer under the parentship of Märklin, all products (however stupid this may be.

STMFC, A couple notes about the excellent Rapido HO NP boxcars in the 100000-13999 series. The January issue of Railroad Model Craftsman has a nine page, 20 photo article by Chris Frissell that descri

Here are photos for the cars appropriate for the era of the Real Steam Era List! Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) "O-59A 3-1940 Capitol Dome Delivery" Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) "1957 O-59 Repaint" Central Railroad

Tangent Scale Models announces the availability today of our latest run of Bethlehem 52’6” 70-Ton Gondolas in HO scale. Produced from 1937 until 1957, Bethlehem Steel Company released over 6,000 of th