I'm adding brake airline detail to a 30' hopper car kit where the main portion of the line isn't located along the center beam, but rather is hung on brackets on the air reservoir side of the car (see

Hi All I am looking for a replacement grey for Floquil Railroad Colors R12 Reefer Gray. Does anyone have a recommendation? Thanks Tim Meyer

Here is a nice picture of a Great Northern truss rod stock car: https://donstrack.smugmug.com/UtahRails/Emil-Albrecht-Photos/1946-Jun-McCammon-and-Salt/i-SwLxDtG/A Is the floor between decks really th

I want to thank everyone with regard to my request for information on sources of wire mesh. Unfortunately my over-zealous wife in an effort to get rid of extraneous e-mails deleted all of them. Would

I have built and upgraded a Milwaukee Road (MILW) single sheathed box car 711794 made by Accurail. An upgrade of car body was done by adding corner braces on sides and diagonals on ends. Adding a lumb

Hi Has anyone got a photo of a Santa Fe Bx13 showing the AB brake gear set up thank you in advance. Please contact me off list Many thanks Paul Doggett. England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Alaska Railroad Hart convertible ballast gondola ARR 1443 built by Pacific Car & Foundry in May 1930. Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive Collection. Richard Wilkens

From Erie RR Modelers & Prototype Fans FB List. Note the flat with a round superstructure at left. Ideas what that is? ID the railroad? Schuyler

I went to the junk, spam, and deleted messages files and they're not there. Jared Harper ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jared Harper via groups.io <harperandbrown@...> Date: Tue, Jun 6,

On ebay there is a PFE-WP wood reefer photo for sale. By Will Whitaker, 1941. Thumbnail attached. I notice no PFE class number. Why is that? What class number would this car be?

Perry Squier added a scale test car to his freight car fleet and operation. He shares his work in the latest DesignBuildOp blog post. http://designbuildop.hansmanns.org/2023/06/02/shawmut-scale-test-c

This is from a clinic by Dick Harley showing the PFE fleet over time https://harley-trains.smugmug.com/PFEModels/PFE-Modeling-Clinics/2019-PFE-Models/i-NvQCqn7/A PFE wood reefers did survive in servic

Looking at my stash of unbuilt kits I’d like to tackle the F&C Northern Pacific truss rod boxcar next. Anyone have a couple prototype photos they could send me off list to help with the build? thanks!

Hello Group, Getting ready to build a Golden Spike Series Mechanical Reefer. Mainly want to make sure I join the sides ,ends and roof together accurately. Was wondering if anyone has built one of thes

Hi All, I'm looking to purchase some of these. If you happen to have some, one or whatever.... Please private message me. Thank you very much! Bryian Sones Union Pacific Modeler Murrieta, CA

Hi Guys I am building a FEC insulated rebuilt boxcar, I believe National Scale Car Co are bringing out decals for the Speedway scheme when did the Speedway scheme start being used? Many thanks Paul Do

While looking for natural gasoline uses, processors and rail transportation, I came across a fire department account about a major fire consuming crashed runaway tank cars on the T&P at Odessa, Texas

I am looking for some mesh to make a hog wire fence around my Eskridge lumber yard. I have tried two brands of vinyl window screen but both are too gross. I have looked at tule from Michaels and it is

Before I scratch build one to replace an op session casualty, does anyone have an Intermountain SFRD RR-23 ice hatch? Am running a rip track instead of doing anything useful. TIA, Joe Binish New Hope,

Photo: Loading castings At Bettendorf Car Works Photo from the Putnam Museum: http://www.umvphotoarchive.org/digital/collection/putnm/id/829/rec/1 Click on the arrows and scroll to enlarge the photo.