Hello all, Recently there has been talk of toe scuff detail weathering for boxcars. Just curious if anyone could share a picture of this. Thanks, Rob

Loading Trucks From Boxcars (1952) Photo from the National Archives: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/234117171 On the link scroll to enlarge the photo. Probably a team track. Caption: Trucks Loading f

Hello Friends. October 15th is tomorrow and the Scale 2 rail train show is at the Strasburg fire company. For directions Doors open to the Public at 9:00 AM With deal entry for table set up at 7:30 AM

Hi, Let's not forget than as the years pass - there is a lot less need/occurence of anyone going up on the top of the cars. Back in the days when the brakemen went on top to help control the trains it

Have these cars hit the stores yet? The Rapido website says they are in stores but I have not received the ones I pre-ordered.

Here’s IM war emergency boxcar RTR. I went over the steel parts of the carbody with a wash of Vallejo grey black and then a Qtip dipped in 91% alcohol. Went over the factory lettering with a sharp bla

Photo: ATSF Livestock Car 58405 Builder photo courtesy of Ray Breyer on the Facebook Pre-Depression Era Railroad Modelers group. This is a Class Sk-L double-deck livestock car built by AC&F in 1910. T

Many of you already know about this, but I decided I should write something more about it, so have done a blog post with some background and commentary. If you’re interested, a link is below. https://

Fellas, seeking unbuilt sunshine kits 35.1 acl ventilated boxcar 22.7 cb&q 40’. 1.5 door boxcar please reply off list! brad Andonian

Folks, One of my projects is based on a photo of an ex- C&O steel hopper converted to a wood chip car with wood extensions. The extensions have cross-ties in three locations, across the top. Has anyon

Off List Replies Only Please For sale 23 bundles (6 pcs each) of Micro Engineering code 83 non-weathered flex track. Never used still perfectly straight. $700 plus shiiping from 18951 Reply to mark at

I have a 2 (two) CD-ROM set of the 1940 (#17) and 1957 (#20) Car Builder Cyclopedias in PDF format. They are huge files (combined over 600 MB) of medium resolution quality and are not OCR (i.e. not te

I happened across this listing on eBay…It’s VINTAGE! Geez! Steve Johnson https://www.ebay.com/itm/195417254392?hash=item2d7fc6a9f8:g:yjEAAOSwZp5jTCPd VINTAGE (1958) Intermountain HO Scale Great Northe

> Near to where I model are Shell, British American and Imperial Oil > properties... A somewhat related, recent data discovery (for me at least,) was the fact that many, if not most, of the states app

For $10 each including postage in USA. If interested contact me DIRECTLY timboconnor@... I have the 1-1940, 7-1950, 1-1955, 1-1959, 1-1965 ORER scans from Westerfield. These are on CD-ROM with JPEG or

Photo: SP Livestock Car SP 71061 (1940) A cropped Russell Lee photo from the Library of Congress. Taken at Willcox, Arizona in 1940. This is a Class S-40-10 livestock car. Bob Chaparro Moderator Railw

Photo: Half-Filled Boxcar (1935) Photo from the National Archives: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/214437178 On the link scroll to enlarge the photo. Appears to be LCL but no indication of whether loa

I just saw Tangent's announcements and I'm curious if any companies operating in Canada for Oil possessed them. Near to where I model are Shell, British American and Imperial Oil properties and I woul

From the Library of Congress: Unloading supplies at Treasury procurement, 7th and D sts, S.W. digital file from original negative https://www.loc.gov/resource/hec.23073/ ca 1937, Washington, DC. High

In August 1956 photographer Dallas Gilbertson found aluminum refrigerator car PFE 45698 at Antelope, CA. Tom Dill Collection, Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive. Richard Wilkens Director of Collection