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

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