Photo: N&W Livestock Car 33000 (Undated) Photo from the Virginia Tech University Libraries https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/image_viewer.php?q=NS2780 Click on photo to enlarge. Class SK Bob Chaparro Moder

Photo: Great Northern Tank Car 60234/Alhambra Water This is a typical “rabbit hole” story. Yesterday I saw a photo of an HO scale layout with an interesting trackside building with a sign that read “A

The current issue of Classic Trains, Summer 2022, on page 52 has an October 11, 1952 picture of a Western Maryland train with a PRR X31A in the lower center of the picture. There is a rectangular plat

Photo: Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf Boxcar (Circa 1900) A photo from the Gateway To Oklahoma History website: https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1473900/m1/1/?q=elevator Zoom in on the photo.

Jim said: ..."Since my layout represents the PNW in the post War years ... cars common in Florida are much less likely to show up than cars common in the PNW. This works - for me. Jim, We haven't talk

This has probably been covered here at one time or another, but . . . I was wondering whether metal running boards (a/k/a roofwalks) on freight cars (mainly boxcars) should be painted or left in plain

Photo: Rock Island Yard (Circa 1908?) A photo from the Gateway To Oklahoma History website: https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1587636/m1/1/?q=Rock%20Island Description: “Photograph of the

I have a photo taken in 1961 of ATSF 7709, a 50-foot double-door steel boxcar. Its CAPY and LD LMT are both 79000 and its LT WT is 57000, and it was reweighed at DO in 4-58, but I can’t locate any mor

Car Float Accident With Santa Fe Reefers “O hear us when we cry to Thee For those in Peril on the sea” Photo courtesy of Kevin Caoimhín Bunker on the Facebook Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling So

Thanks for the interest and it sold rather quickly. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA On Saturday, May 28, 2022, 02:29:49 PM PDT, Andy Carlson <midcentury@...> wrote: Subject: FS: LifeLike P2K "Time-Saver" Mather

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Can anyone suggest a source of a HO scale 40’ Climax flexible (radial) roof? If not available separately, any suggestions on relatively inexpensive models (Athearn, Roundhouse, Accurail, etc.) that ha

Friends, Could someone recommend a Steam Era Brass Locomotive .Io group? I am looking for some insights into modeling HO brass locomotives that pulled steam era freight cars. Thank you for you insight

In 2019, Bill Welch told me that a wood ART reefer was planned to be released in resin at some point. Does anyone know if this is still the case? -Phil Lee

Hello Steam Era Modelers: Our sale ends on May 31 at midnight. Have a good Memorial Day Weekend! We are pleased to announce that Westerfield Models is having a Multi-day NATIONAL TRAIN DAY SALE . The

On page 122 of Gene Green's reefer color guide there is a photo of WRX 9000, rebuilt in 1954 from a 1936 reefer. The caption says it has eight ice hatches and if I squint I might be able to see them (

I have a National Scale Car B&O M55B mini-kit I'm not going to build. Price was $30 +shipping. I would like that money back plus shipping to it's new home. So, I'm asking $45 for the kit. Thanks! cepr

I have built two Yarmouth Model Works resin Northern Pacific (NP), steel 1937 design Box Cars 17823 and 17925. If you are interested in the build of these resin one piece body box car kits. Photos and

I got a Funaro & Camerlengo B&O Wagontop covered hoopper kit off of eBay. The supposedly New In Box was not so New In Box. No instructions. Does anyone have a pdf or scan of the instructions? I emaile

Here’s another survivor of 20+ years of op sessions. Added missing brake wheel and rod coming off the chain and missing lower hand grabs on the ends. While I had it on the bench I added reweigh patche