The book has been sold. Thank you, Paul Paul Krueger Seattle, WA

The references to the sale of built up boxcars bought to mind a topic that I had almost forgotten.A reference was made to the work of quality modelers selling at a premium. Bill Welch has ben a major

Photo: Monsanto Tank Car MONX 901 Photo from the Missouri Historical Society: https://mohistory.org/collections/item/P0403-04227-01-8n?fullscreen=1 Taken in 1932 in Saint Clair County, Sauget, Illinoi

Hi, My brother spent a lot of years in trucking - first as a driver and then as a dispatcher. Smallish company with all flat bed trailers. Once, while he was still driving he had a container of hides

Very nice, Paul! Thanks! -- Brian Ehni On 7/1/22, 11:12 AM, "Paul Doggett via groups.io" <ResinFreightCarBuilders@groups.io on behalf of paul.doggett2472@...> wrote: Hi Guys I have just finished a Fu

As I continue to scan and recycle old paper, I found this single page item that is attached. Dating to 1950, it covers a goodly amount of the membership I would believe. To all of you that fill out wa

Fritz; Here is my model of an offal gon, done at the direction of Al Buchan, who witnessed these cars in action. Apparently, they used gons on their last legs, coated on the inside with asphaltum, but

I have for sale a copy of American Refrigerator Transit by Stuart T. Maher, G.J. Michels, Jr., and Gene Semon. This is a comprehensive history of American Refrigerator Transit, including a thorough lo

Canadian National Refrigerator Car 209120 (1937) Photo from the Government of Canada: https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=3520058 Click and scroll

I have several black GM&O war emergency hoppers from Proto 2000. I would like to remove the lettering and replace it with Illinois Terminal decals. I have tried soaking the lettering with solvaset and

I have come to realize over the past few days that everyone on this list has not pursued the model railroading hobby from college to the present day as have I. There were many good and accurate commen

George Toman shares his HO scale Red Caboose reefer upgrades to reflect the R-30-9 class prototypes in the latest Resin Car Works blog post. http://blog.resincarworks.com/building-a-western-pacific-pf

Dan Hall of Southwest Scale Productions has recently restocked his selection of finely molded styrene box car doors. Most are available, including the 4-6-6 Youngstown part 612. Website is http://www.

Does anyone collect Globe tank cars anymore? Globe made some nice cars that Irv Athearn never produced. I am thinking of the two-dome tank cars. Globe used pot metal parts, though, that frequently det

The easiest to make jig to bend consistent grab irons is simply a hole drilled in a length of .060 or .080 styrene strip. Drill a hole to fit the wire the width of the grab iron from the end of a stri

Placards Hazardous materials placards with their UN numbers came in after the time frame for this group. But was there a phase-out of other paper placards such as “Unload Other Side”, “Do Not Hump”, e

The long standing paint for Santa Fe refers has been ACCUPAINT New Haven Harvest Yellow. Tru Color now has this paint in their line. The attached were done with the original Accu Paint. Bill Pardie Se

Could some one here offer a brief tutorial on the size of tank car domes? This query comes from a recent comment about wanting to 'cut down' domes to shorter size for specific cars, related to car cap

Hi, I model the SP but am interested in having at least semi realistic models of other road’s cars in my trains which led me here. I hope that I can pick the collective brains about models that are av

When Rapido announced they were going to make the USRA SS boxcars RTR two Westerfield kits showed up on eBay for $20 each. I built one as a Milwaukee Road and the other for the Ann Arbor. Just complet