Dave Nelson <Lake_Muskoka@...> asked: John H. Armstrong in The Railroad What it Is, What It Does, 3rd Ed. Simmons-Boardman, 1990, page 169, says, "The next step in terminal operations is to assemb

I'm looking for advice on HO scale trucks that were used on these cars after the arch bar trucks would have been replaced/updated. This is for the Yarmouth Model Works kit #109 (link). I model 1946, a

'Blocking' is also used as a verb, referring to the act of assembling cars in blocks. I think, without citation, that this is a very old railroad term. 'Lashup' could have been hostler slang, but not

Many years ago MR published a very indignant letter to the editor castigating the magazine for using the term"lashup" and asserting that the only correct term was "locomotive consist." Why this has st

From what I’ve read, and heard, “Lashup” is a model railroad term. Not used by railroaders IRL (In Real Life). Now, I don’t KNOW about “block,” but it seems to me to be a common term to describe arran

Dave; “Block” is definitely a railroad term, and refers to a string of cars destined to an intermediate or final destination from which the block may be broken up or re-classified, like the following:

Anyone know when the term ”Block”, describing a set of cars headed to the same location, came into general use? Or whether that concept is in use outside of North America? Similar question regarding l

The mention of pulling up rails reminded me that I have several AFEs from the war years in which the C&S authorized removing various tracks to free up rail for scrap drives. Richard Townsend Lincoln C

Here is an O scale model I built of it in 1987. My only reference at the time was a photo and brief description of it in the 1953 Carbuilder's Cyclopedia. Some hand lettering had to be done for what w

Photo: B&LE Gondola 16331 With Scrap Load (1942) A photo from the Ann Arbor District Library https://aadl.org/sites/default/files/photos/N082_0380_006.jpg The World War II scrap drive included pulling

Photo: SFRD Stainless Steel Reefer 13000 A photo from the Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society archives: https://sfrhms.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/RR-41-A2004-0017-Temple-Railroad-Heri

"Drawer of Disappointments" I like that phrase. Mine is more like a "Penalty Box" It is a shelf by the bench where I can place "those who do not cooperate" and let the subconscious work on solutions.

I've summarized a few recent projects in my latest blog post. Most are freight cars, except for a cool model of a 1918 truck. Here's the direct link. http://designbuildop.hansmanns.org/2020/08/05/work

It looks like pink would work and you can ignore my previous post. In a message dated 8/4/2020 5:05:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, WaltGCox@... writes: Hi Dave, I would do a test run of th

Hi Dave, I would do a test run of the mixture before using it on a model. Back when Floquil was the "go to" paint I was looking for a way to get a faded appearance on some single sheathed boxcars in g

Thank you Peter, you've laid my fears to rest. Dave Lawler

For example: https://www.ebay.com/itm/ATHEARN-5209-OSCAR-MAYER-REEFER-6871-KIT-HO-SCALE/383641293846?hash=item5952cd9416:g:2BsAAOSwSmJfFcpr Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

With respect to the Oscar Mayer car, if I recall correctly from my late father's accumulation of HO trains, the folks at Athearn did a car similar to the retouched photo Claus referenced. It had red s

Continuing to clean out the three-decade stash of unbuilt styrene undec kits. Front Range kit #4070 features 10-panel riveted sides, 8-foot door, diagonal panel roof, and R-3-4 ends; a prototype near-

Those of us who remember the classic wood NYC cabooses remember that they showed up in different shades of red (or even pink), depending on how long it had been since they were painted. For many, it w