Photo: Pulpwood Cars At The Great Northern Paper Company (Undated) Photos courtesy of James Perz on the Facebook Great Northern Paper Company Employees group. This company was a Maine-based pulp and p

I need a new DCC controller so I need to sell a couple kits to help pay for a replacement. Sunshine 91.9 SAL XM-1 box car Sunshine 64.6 NKP 10’6” rebuilt box car Speedwitch K108.2 Soo Line Sawtooth bo

Hello, I recently saw a cable reel load (in archive footage) that looked like it was just thrown into the gon with zero regard to safety or stabilization. They were laying in all variations. Guess the

As a lot of you may have heard my good friend and business associate, Hubert Mask of Mask Island Decals passed away suddenly on August 8th. Hubert and I worked together for the last 18+ years. Over th

Why did GTW use the NYDX reporting mark? As far as I can tell, only GTW reefers carried the mark. -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Finally…The SFRD Rr-56 Mechanical Reefer From my friend, Matt Martin, at Rapido Trains: Here's a first look at our production HO scale ATSF RR-56/60/61 class mechanical reefers! These models will be l

Hello all, Id like to ask how Atomic Waste was shipped on the nation's RR's in the 1950s? I know the Atomic Energy Commission had their own cars and these were manifested into regular freights. Does a

I have just posted the second description of completing a Proto2000 kit for a 50-foot UP automobile car, with various changes and upgrades, along with roof paint failure. To see this, if you’re intere

Good evening all, I am insearch of a Sunshine kit 77.1 - 77.4 It is a GN 31000-31499 series single sheathed box car. If anyone who has one that is willing to part with it... I am interested. Please co

Quite some time ago, I got a set of parts for some resin cars, miscellaneous plastic and metal detail parts for resin castings. One of them is the two-rung sill steps that PFE placed under reefer door

Photo: ACL Ventilated Boxcar 37853 With Live Bees Load (Undated) Photo from the Facebook Train Pictures With Chaotic Auras group. The smaller placard also reads, “Live Bees”. This is a new one on me.

I seem to be developing reputation from not knowing what is going on. Believe me I am working hard to achieve that. On returning from.Collonsville I felt that I should spend some time attempting to ap

Since Gene Green compiled this list 21 years ago, I thought it might be handy to repost for newer folks. :-) Since that time dozens of accurate brake wheels and housings have been created. It would be

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Both of these images show the Enosburg Falls, Vermont condensary at two different times - The image with the GTW reefer is the building after it had been modified with an updated water tank and chimne

Tried a google search and all I got back was the Abrams tank images. Started on the F&C L&N XM-1 boxcar but his instructions leave a little to much to the modeler’s imagination. Found I’d squirreled a

Marty, The sharply curved roof and sloping light stripe on the car truncated at the left edge of the lower photo makes me think of a CV milk car in a wet noodle scheme. I don’t know the exact year tha

The 1923 proposal shows up on p.120 of the 1925 Car Builder's Cyclopedia (ignore the Enterprise drop doors in the floor), helpfully available here: https://books.google.com/books/about/Car_Builders_Cy

I will certainly be there next year! Great work, Frank! Tony Thompson tony@...

Frank, et al, That is excellent news. Many thanks for taking the initiative on all our behalf(s). Note, I see this is for 2023, which is next year. I hope by then all our pandemic problems are behind