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

Tangent Scale Models is proud to introduce our next production of HO Scale General American 8,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Cars. By the end of World War I, U.S. production of oil and oil-

Looking for currently available acrylic paints for FGE yellow. Prefer not having to mix, but not adverse to doing that. Working on two different time frames; one is the 20's, the second is late 40s- e

Photo: Unloading Lumber From A Boxcar (1940) On the link scroll to enlarge the photo. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7003186 Scroll to enlarge the photo. Appears to be a demonstration for a Brownie t

We occasionally get questions here about these strange pattern steel ends, known to modelers as "bullseye" ends. Here is what appears to be the definitive history of this little known product. I misse

Photo: Santa Fe Automobile & Furniture Boxcar 8451 Photo courtesy of Ray Breyer on the Facebook Pre-Depression Era Railroad Modelers group. A Door-And-A-Half car with end doors. A Santa Fe Class Fe-K,

I am still looking for brake inspection decals for NY C freight cars in the 1940's. I have not come across any set that has them Thanks for any help: Bill Pardie Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy s

Although the photo is from after the end date of this group, it seems like none of the photo's content is. 700 miles from the U.S. border, we can still see a radial-course GATC tank car, a longitudina

All- Thanks for the side trip into Railroad Terminolgy. Turns out that the question was raised by a faulty memory on the part of the researcher…he remembered “magazine” when the reference was “journal

CB&Q 36' Livestock Car Kit An HO kit from Leadville Designs: https://leadvilledesigns.com/ Description from the manufacturer: “These cars were built by AC&F in the early 1920s for the CB&Q. With Z ste

All- What item pertaining to railroads would be "a magazine". This is in the context of an item of value that could be sold by a thief.....not a publication. Asking for an author who is attempting to

Photo: Delivering Poultry By Truck To Poultry Car (Undated) A photo from the National Archives: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/148742423 On the link scroll to enlarge the photo. The car is LPTC 426 a

I model the Wabash in the early to mid 1950s and have come to realize that I don't have enough Wabash box cars. It would seem I need more 40 ft. steel cars that are accurate. I have a few rebuilds fro

Photo: Loading Boxcar With Artillery/Bomb Shells (Circa 1919) Photo from the National Archives: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/86717616 On the link scroll to enlarge the photo. Anyone know if these a

Photo: Poultry In Crates Inside Poultry Car (Undated) A photo from the National Archives: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/148742419 On the link scroll to enlarge the photo. Taken at Rockingham County,

MORNING ALL: Here is a shot from a PFE refer at the Paris museum near Los angled. Above the truck is a devise in the area where a defect card holder is normally placed. This is unlike any defect card

And comparing the R-40-14 ends to the R-40-25 ends we see the characteristic change in the topmost major rib that occured about 1949 and model companies have mostly ignored (with the exception of one