Another Test

Just doing some tests to see if my Youngstown containers would fit in the Intermountain and Lifelike kits - I plan to issue a 10 container load for Mop. Turns out the Lifelike car is about 6" narrower

I assume Jeff English will answer this, but I've sent it to everyone since I'm probably not the only party interested in the response. Rutland Car Works is selling a resin kit (HO scale) for an MDT re

Another Test

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of meeting Dwight Smith, formerly associated with the B&M, Springfield Terminal, and Conway Scenic Railroads. From February of 1952 until the Suncook Valley Railr

This is a test message to see if I am signed onto the steam era freight car list. Mike Brock has been trying to get me signed on with many frustrations. If I am on, greetings to all of my friends! If

Garth Groff wrote: Getting such an article published isn't the problem, Garth. Finding time to build the models and write the article is the problem. For almost two years, I've had hardly any time for

Fellow Prisoners, Going through the ACF book this weekend - blissfully ignorant of the turmoil I caused with my questions of last week - I couldn't help but notice, once again, the sheer variety of ta

Larry Kline wrote: >My one car turn per month was off the top of my head, and low for the early >1950s. An article in the Jan 7, 1950 Railway Age gives the following numbers >for October 1949: All car

Richard chides me: > Damn, Shawn, the glass is only half full... Yes, I know...I'm the quintessential Baby Boomer. "I want it all - and I want it now." Living here in La La Land probably has had an in

There is a c. 1919 photo of a USRA-like WM hopper in one of the Nimke Rutland books, with no herald. The ball herald was being used by the late '30's. Can anyone pin down the date it was adopted a lit

I've just uploaded two JPEG images of an in-process tank kitbash built from Mark Fedderson's DuPont tank car article, to the <Files> section of the group's web site. It's from my distressingly large s

In the Aug. '49 Model Railroader, the review of a Utah Scale Models Col 65 foot mill gon said "The sides are sprayed authentic Western Maryland white and lettered in red. The lettering is perfect." Is

Train Miniature had a NH wood box car (forty feet instead of 36 feet) with a slogan like "New England's Vacationland" on the door. The car was in the pre-'41 pre-script scheme. I would guess they got

I had a John Teichmoeller moment the other day. Ever since getting his book on PRR steel hoppers, I've been ignoring the foreground of published photos (especially those diesels) and looking at car ty

List, Some or all of you may be familiar with the above mentioned book title. It's been reviewed by Bill Jewett in the Operations-Industry SIG newsletter, the "Dispatchers Office". Well, I received my

Steam Listers, Our prior discussion about foreign road hoppers got me to thinking again about the subject of proper ratios of home vs. foreign road cars in recreating history via a model railroad. I t

OK, so now I'm getting familiar with the gons. Turns out both Erie and Nickel Plate used them for containers. Unfortunately, the Sunshine version is much too narrow (8'10" vs 9'6" for the prototype).

I have information that in '53, the GTW made their herald level and added the maple leaf, which would be a year before the CN made their maple leaf herald level. Do I have the right dates here? Also,

I am currently working on my Sunshine kit. Is anyone aware of any published plans that might show the routing of the trainline? Martin did not include it, but it upsets my sensibilities to have the ot