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Here is a photo of watermelons being loaded in a different kind of stock car on the real Indiana Railroad. Bill Darnaby Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online

I have stayed away from this because it is really off topic but I will stick my toe in this just once. The core of my steam fleet is 12 Halllmark IC 4-8-2's that have been considerably redetailed and

I have in my possession the 8 piece ATST work train that Sunshine made. It belonged to a deceased member of the LaMesa Club in San Diego and I have volunteered to build it for the club. However, there

My bet is on the NKP. As a kid riding though north central Indiana with my folks in the 50's and early 60's I remember seeing many field cars...some still lettered NKP. I attribute this to the number

Many years ago on this list...way back when Tim Gilbert was still around...I posted data from the late Don Daily (retired from the NKP/N&W/NS) that described shipments from the soy bean processing pla

Over some thirty years of building resin and encountering all manner of warped sides, ends and roofs and I have found the best remedy is to have on hand a flat piece of steel with enough mass to be a

Some 35 years ago at Monon historical society convention a retired Monon trainman, who had been in the airborne in Europe during the war, told how his local job stopped at Shelby, IN where the Monon c

A few years back I finished three of these guys and they can be built into nice models. The tank is crude because, as somebody mentioned, a brass model was used as the master resulting in the rivet de

I agree and if the location is really Indianapolis this would place the image after the NKP's 1923 acquisition of the Lake Erie & Western as the NKP did not get to Indianapolis prior to that acquisiti

The only accurate model of any of the M55 cars is the Sunshine resin versions and even these did not get the Duryea underframes correct. Bill Darnaby

The IR did so some interchange with the Monon south of Greencastle where its cars would be given to the Monon for delivery to the very nearby cement works. These cars would be immediately returned to

Thanks guys, for the kind comments. It is a neat kit and one of new favorite cars. Bill Darnaby

This is my completed car in a train where it stopped after the last session ended. Bill Darnaby

My Yarmouth N&W B5 boxcar came with these trucks and I am impressed with how well these resin trucks roll with IM wheel sets. Bill Darnaby

I agree, Michael. Still hoping for Collinsville. I would have gone to Cocoa Beach if they had it. At least I’m getting a lot of basement time and having sessions with the boys. Bill

Clark, James and others, I will have to defer to the Soo experts out there for any reliable paint information. I only trusted and used what Des Plaines Hobbies provided on the models. Bill Darnaby

Thanks! But I didn’t do much except add the correct details and weather them. Des Plaines did the paint jobs on the correct square corner bodies. The large SOO paint had a reweigh date of 5-55 so I le

RPCyc 35 which is the tell all about ’37 boxcars motivated me to sort though my stash of IMWX and RC kits. I found two of the offerings by Des Plaines Hobbies purchased years ago which are mostly corr

Is this the car you guys are referring to? I purchased this from the Rensselaer Club some thirty years and I am sure F&C was doing the casting for them. It does not match up with any of the Sunshine c