Joe Binish wrote: "...a modular kit to make the various rebuilds in plastic would be cool. My Sunshine and Boas built kits are among my favorite cars in my fleet. They have the 'look'." Agree complete

Just noticed this morning UK time, that it is inaccessible. How is it working Stateside? http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/ -- Ben Scanlon Tottenham, England

No, the use of a 4 course tank body allowed the use of flat mold construction where the conical rivets won't be trapped coming out of the mold. Years later Intermountain was able to mold a 3 course ta

Thanks for that explanation Dennis. I've only seen one mold in my life and that was the huge Branchline box car platter of goodies mold that included multiple items and had no 'slides' as far as I kno

Any recommendation for which truck to use for this model? Also, is the roof from the Tichy kit correct for this car? Decal recommendation? Thanks, -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

The Feds love too crunch numbers in a myriad of ways, and have been doing so for well over 100 years. It's pretty easy to crack open a USDA report for any given year and start looking at state produce

Good evening, The latest issue of the Seaboard - Coast Line Modeler has been published and is available for download at https://www.aclsal.org/publications . This issue includes three freight car arti

Hello everyone, Wanted to ask what some of the most common non fruit produce shipped East from the West Coast was? You hear a lot about citrus/berries/cantaloupe/cherries and some other fruits like Gr

Started scanning my mostly-ignored 35mm color negatives and have come upon some forgotten treasures. March 1989, Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris CA, Santa Fe war emergency gondola 176695 had be

Pretty much as the title says. I read somewhere that Chicago-Cleveland or their successor stopped manufacturing these roofs in the 1940s. I am thinking of the latter type with five corrugations per pa

Group, Please pardon this request as I would like to lean on the knowledge base of this group to find more information about a rail served industry. If there is another group I should be joining to as

Building IMWX 1937 NYC box car in series 1573XX. Have info. Ed Hawkins compiled on the 1937 box cars; however, no luck finding photo except in Car Builder Cyc. Of the modified 1937 assigned to the 159

Merry Christmas - ALL, I was reading Lester Breuer's excellent blog and came across a model of a gon with a lumber load. The load was "3 groups tall" with each group being 'about the height of the sid

A lot of good images of steam era freight cars in this vintage Santa Fe film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svZVzq-3W68 I noticed automobile bodies being shipped in gondolas. I've never seen that be

Everything published in 1927 now moves into the public domain. Dave Nelson

Does anyone know of a provider of BS decals for boxcars from the transition era in HO scale. I know Champ did but not sure if someone today makes them Thanks for listening Fenton

Can anyone share a copy of the instructions and data sheet for this model? My kit came without either. Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide. Stuart A. Forsyth trainmail@...

Screen capture from Jack Delano January 1941 shot -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.

I don't think anyone has brought this up before. It was not an uncommon stencil. Anyone want to research the question and tabulate all the known uses of this stencil ? :-) But I agree with Eric -- cou

A touch of dyslexia Brian? :-) SFRC 1476 (the 6 is not legible on my screen) If it were 1746 it would be an Rr-71. Both classes (69 & 71) are interesting because one might think they were "50 foot" re