Please excuse the multiple postings. After a family vacation with the grandkids, I have had some time to choose and edit some photos from Collinsville RPM. Clearly not everything that there was to see

Actually, I would jump at the opportunity to get a bottle of these pickles! Something about ambiance. I am afraid that all of today's pickles ship by highway trucks. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA On Wednesday

Photo: Goldsmith Pickle Company Car 2578 (1946) Photo courtesy of the Facebook NOLA Rails group. GATX 2578 as seen at New Orleans, LA. M. Walsdorf collection. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

I am wrapping up a very long term project on a Westerfield NYC USRA steel boxcar. I have Ted Culotta's decal set for these cars and have finished all the lettering with the exception of the brake serv

Hi Folks, I’ve taken action to moderate Mike’s account so that no further SPAM will come to RealSTMFC from it. I really didn’t understand Phil’s response, so I moderated that account, too. Back to fre

How are you? i need a favor from you. Sorry for the inconvenience. I need to get a PlayStation Gift Card for my nephew, it's his birthday today and I totally forgot i can't do this now because I'm cur

Hello to the group! What happened to Sergent website? http://www.sergentengineering.com/ seems to be dead. Have a pleasant week, Giancarlo (from Italy)

Ted Larson's picture web page. Might find a few items of interest? -Andy I have several piggyback collections in my Pinterest pages. They do show many non railroad trailers. Here are my collections. h

Hello all, I'd like to ask how far from home territory would trailers travel by way of tofc in the 1950's? Take C&O for example, would a trailer loaded somewhere in Virginia be sent to Colorado or Tex

I always get excited and appreciate the comments on painting and weatheringon this list. Often I rush out and buy the products recommend A short time ago one of the post recommended Apcad Clear . I bo

For those interested in hand brakes, I have posted to my SmugMug site several UP drawings from my collection. There are drawings from both the 1940s and 1960s. They are in the "Specialties Listings &

Per the Revenue Freight Cars book at page 90, PM in May, 1935 leased 100 cars, 90400-90488(sic) 90499 to the C&O and per the Freight Car Equipment of the C&O these were re-painted as C&O and re-number

Please look under seller propsus-b2gc2hde Thank you, Clark Propst

This week one of the former AC&F century-old buildings near St. Louis caught fire. TRRA traffic was halted to lay hose. Photo by Tyler Sneed. Mike Del Vecchio Sent from the all new AOL app for iOS

I found this boxcar at my local hobby shop, and was wondering if anyone could provide identification. To my knowledge, it appears to be a CPR Fowler, and it's wood based. The only identifying marks ar

I built and upgraded an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe (ATSF) (Santa Fe) InterMountain stock car kit. I built the Santa Fe stock car as a single deck stock car in Santa Fe class Sk-T that I numbered 60

I'm finishing the HO scale F&C hi-walkway 8,000 gal tank car kit. It is based on the prototype built by AC&F ca1912. I am thinking about using some spare parts and cobbling together a 10,000 gal tank

New Heavy Duty Depressed Center Flatcar At the NMRA’s National Train Show this week, ClassOneModelWorks.com announced an HO scale depressed center heavy duty flatcar. This is the General Steel Casting

Hi all, I am looking for the PSC part number for freight car air hose brackets. I am running out of these and can’t figure out what to look for! I emptied the packets years back so have no reference.

Have four sets of injection molded gondola car sides - one long mill gon, three shorter gons - that might have come from T.C. Schmidt, not sure of prototypes, will sell for any reasonable offer, conta