In the late 1970’s or early 1980’s I’d met Charlie Winters who was working as a NW switchman in North Kansas City. Charlie had started his career with the Wabash. Charlie had a large steam locomotive

Saw this from Walthers today: https://trains.walthers.com/hubfs/Videos/New%20Product%20Express/JANUARY%202023%20Walthers%20New%20Product%20Announcement.pdf Isn’t the Walthers car representing the same

I’m working on a 3d model of the early 1940’s AAR standard 70 ton flatcar and the centersill is rather odd. The “web”/vertical sides are separate flat plates, not rolled with flanges, each is not (as

I was just given an RFP USRA box and would like to create a realistic waybill for it on my layout. I'm looking for real shippers on the RFP from 1945-1950 era, and products they might have shipped aro

With a bit of trepidation, here's another upgrade to a rivet-starved C&BT carbody from deep in the unbuilt kit stash -- this one the 7-foot door variation, detailed for NKP. Detail replacements includ

Would anyone know what year and how many Rock Island 46' series 94000 Flatcars were converted to Bulkhead cars? Also looking for a Photo of a 94000 series car as a Flatcar and not a Bulkhead car. Any

It is with great sadness that I must tell you that Mike Brock, founder of the Steam-Era Freight Cars list, has passed away. I just found out this morning that he passed away on Monday, January 2, 2022

Gents, Broadway Limited has announced a new round of 6,000 gallon ACF tank cars in HO. There are some new schemes and some reruns. This time they are selling them as 2-packs, often with two different

There are some interesting nuances here that deserve consideration… While I agree overall that if one focuses on the oddballs, that is problematic. However… on average, oddballs are quite common. What

One piece at a time: http://research.nprha.org/BRHS2/BRHS_467_1_2714.jpg http://research.nprha.org/BRHS2/BRHS_467_1_2729.jpg http://research.nprha.org/BRHS2/BRHS_467_1_2726.jpg -Hudson

They look rather alike. I know they are rebuilds of rather different vehicles - WAB's from USRA-like DS clones vs L&N's from ARA 1924 boxcars, but what are the major differences? Lots of surface simil

Ken, The easy way to get one of these kits without the worn dies issue is to buy the Gould version. Here are some new unopened kits currently on ebay. Prices from $33 to $45:- https://www.ebay.com/itm

I have been scanning some negatives from James Burke. This photo was taken in El Dorado, Kansas, March 18, 1951. Two things that jumped off the page at me is the New York Central stock car (Westerfiel

Above is a brake plate on a Santa Above is a shot of a brake diagram plate on a Santa Fe war emergency gondola. Th car is a the Paris “Railway Museum, I did not know this existed until I got the photo

In case anyone wants to see a real NYC trust plate from 1957, here is one a friend gave me a few years ago. It measures 5-1/2” x 12-1/2” and just to reinforce the idea that everything in the railroad

Dick Harley already commented on the original MTH offering: “While MTH markets this car as a "40' Steel Sided Reefer Car" and letters it as a class R-40-23 car, it is really a pretty good model of a p

An often overlooked detail on our freight cars.are Trust Plates. These show up on freight cars more often than one might think. The only time that I had taken a car to a RPM meet was years ago. It was

Stuart, Catching up on emails. Did you get the information you were looking for? I have one of these kits and would be happy to photograph and send along the info. Take care, Dennis Korn

The picture was taken in 1946 near Salt Lake City on the Grand: https://donstrack.smugmug.com/UtahRails/Emil-Albrecht-Photos/1946-Salt-Lake- City/i-rLWqvxz/A An interesting train makeup with 3 of the

Tim's list included: 40' flatcar Rutland (by sheer coincidence!) The Rutland 2700-2799 ACF 1910 40' flat can easily be modeled by using the Athearn Blue Box 40' flat. The modeling process described by