I am building Sunshine kit #29.12, however, this kit comes with Youngstown doors. I wish to build the car with 7 Panel Superior doors to represent a different series of the boxcar. The Youngstown door

PRR photos

Hi All, I have been following the discussion of the USRA box cars with interest. As it turned to the roles of potential committees, MCB, AAR, USRA I thought the following would be of interest. I tried

Would anyone have a contact e-mail address for the Bessemer & Lake Erie Historical Society as I have a query regarding some of the B&LE hopper? The only link I can find on the website is a Facebook co

Hey group, I have quite an eclectic group of items for sale today. Images are available here if you'd like to shop: https://www.flickr.com/photos/48288130@N02/albums/72177720303711337 Payment via PayP

Was there anything new to report from the train show this past weekend? Steve Hile

I am detailing my small fleet of HO Bowser 55T hopper cars and want to replace the ladders with finer ones. Plate C Models makes replacement ladders but has been out of stock for awhile and they have

I bought a Spencer Chemical Sunshine kit, but the instructions are missing. Does anyone know where I could find them? Thanks, Phil Lee

Atlas announced their release of the CP “Minibox” boxcar based on the True Line Trains tooling. Paul Krueger Seattle, WA

Los Angeles Pacific Boxcar 407 Photo courtesy of Paul Ayers on the Facebook Pacific Electric Railway group. He comments: “LAP boxcar No. 407 at Buena Vista Freight House, Sunset and North Broadway, Lo

This week I am working on flat cars for my clinic on curating your C&O freight car fleet at the upcoming C&O Modelers Weekend in Logan WV. The focus of my presentation is 1952. At this time, the C&O d

Hi there, Was just familiarizing myself a bit with these two classes of 8’8” interior height cars, and wondered - apart from the grab iron count (7 v 8), the door brace details and the car ends (Murph

All: Sad news to report, Joe Oats (Uncle Joe) passed away this morning at Tampa General hospital. Joe was an active railman and modeler, well known throughout the Southeast. Additional information wil

I was listening to a podcast this morning, and the speaker mentioned the fun he was having playing with the search function on openai.com. So, i signed up, and started typing search terms. Thought i’d

Back in the 2016-2018 time frame I went tank car crazy. I built a number of resin tank cars, purchased castings from Tom Madden, and built cars swapping tank and bodies and cutting them up. Then when

I was at Springfield today and took these photos. I think the models pretty much line up with the group's consensus of the concept art. Notice how the bottoms of the tank bands are molded into the tan

I have discovered a new source of industries during the WWII era. A short description and links are on my blog at: Follow the Money – The War Production Board Mailing List Follow the Money – The War P

Operating session observations are featured in the latest DesignBuildOp blog post. I had a great time running a few trains on this fine layout set in 1923. Boomer operator – Pittsburg, Shawmut & North

To all, I have had a limited run of decals made for the ITS composite hopper in the 10049-10139 and 11050-11099 series. These are for the Funaro resin Great Northern kit to turn into the ITS prototype

To all, I have had a limited run of decals made for the ITS composite hopper in the 10049-10139 and 11050-11099 series. These are for the Funaro resin Great Northern kit to turn into the ITS prototype