All, About a year ago we had a small discussion on Stock Car Bull Boards and their purpose. The following is from the June 1948 Freight Claims Division of The Association of American Railroads.  BULL

I pulled out my first Artitec kit to use as a freight car load, and found that the instructions are mostly pictorial. There is a small amount of text rendered in three languages including English, but

All, I was looking to build a Gulf States Creosoting tank car model from an extra 8K tank car kit I have in my collection. Looking at the prototype photo in the ACF Tank car book. The car is listed a

Can anyone point me to a photo of a Bessemer & Lake Erie triple hopper in the 45001-45100 series and/or Pittsburgh & Lake Erie triple hopper 7500-7504, all built by Pressed Steel in 1935 using Cor-Ten

The two R-30-16 kits have been spoken for. Thanks, -Andy Carlson Ojai CA On Saturday, December 17, 2022 at 02:08:50 PM PST, Andy Carlson <midcentury@...> wrote: Hello- I have 2 Pacific Fruit Express H

Hello- I have 2 Pacific Fruit Express HO hybrid kits for R-30-16 wood side reefers. In the early 1950s this was a huge class of wood side reefers in the PFE fleet. These cars were upgrade rebuilds of

Hide Loading Only Boxcars Now for the fun and fond memories. These are comments from real railroaders on the Facebook If You Work(Ed) On The Railroad group: Doug Burge: They brought a hide car in and

My friend George Toman and I built and upgraded a Northern Pacific Historical Railway Association (NPRHA) resin 70-Ton 13 post gondola kit we numbered 59204. The build and upgrade was done to provide

Decades ago Detail Associates came out with a variety of delrin steps for freight cars. I thought that this was one of the best advances of the century and installed them on many of my freight cars. I

An update on Perry Squier’s box car and gondola projects is the latest feature on my DesignBuildOp blog. Shawmut freight car update designbuildop.hansmanns.org Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

Notice what looks to be a spiral drop end on one of the gons coupled to a flatcar. Is it a Monon gon? Photo dated 1949. -Phil Lee

Thanks to all who sent photos. Great response for help. Tony

I’m building a kit, and would like to know whether the CGW 91000-series box cars had corrugated or panel doors. Any help appreciated. Tony Thompson tony@...

I sent this photo to Tony last night. Shows a 91000 series boxcar, which he was asking about. Doug Harding https://www.facebook.com/douglas.harding.3156/ Youtube: Douglas Harding Iowa Central Railroad

What series are the 36' boxcars for the wood steel-reinforced ends? According to Funaro & Camerlengo they were renumbered 150000-169999 when they were but there is a photo of steel-end 36' boxcar with

To the Group: I'm looking for some suggestions - I'm wanting to get HO scale decals made for the 10080-10139 and 11000-11099 series coal hoppers. I can't quite make out the lettering in the middle of

A bunch of each? 😉 -Bruce Smith Auburn, AL From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> Reply-To: "main@RealSTMFC.groups.io" <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Date: Tuesday, D

Did the SAL steel sheath any of their V-9/10’s? the attached pic appears so… any ideas on numbers they may have done? Must have been very small number, this is the 1st time I have seen this

Photo: SFRD 35258 (Rr-28) Photo courtesy of former Santa Fe engineer Rebecca Wellet on the Facebook If You Work(Ed) On The Railroad group. Photo location and date not stated. Santa Fe Railway photo. I

Tangent Scale Models is proud to introduce our next production of HO scale General American 10,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Cars. As a reminder, this is the first plastic radial course ta