I have built and upgraded Spokane, Portland & Seattle gondola 23038. . If you are interested in the upgrade of this gondola including application of Archer retaining clips (tie downs). And, painting,

This is a question contemporary with the focus of the STMFC group, and one whose subjects would have pushed around a lot of STMFC. Rapido recently announced some GE 44-tonners in HO. Their ad shows ph

I finished GN 66247 this morning, another scratch built 52’ flat car. These welded cars were built in 1945 and had deep fishbelly center sills and shallow sides. I appreciate the welded design, minimi

Greetings, Yesterday I finished GN 2527, a baggage express boxcar. It is built from an Intermountain kit. The car was upgraded with a detailed underframe (including scratch built Universal rotary slac

Greetings, It has been a busy day. I just finished GN 79000, another 65’ mill gondola. This one was built in December 1955 and used the earlier lettering scheme. I know this one is correct since I had

I purchased this slight out 0of focus (Sorry) Westerfield Santa Fe stock car a while back. The builder did a great job on the car, however, I want to update it with the later lettering scheme. I have

Greetings, Attached are a couple of photos of GN 79012, a 65’ mill gondola. The prototype was finished in January 1956 and had the new slanted lettering on mineral red paint. The model is scratch buil

Aside from the N&W, were there any other owners, secondhand etc ? Regards, Ben Scanlon Tottenham, England

I purchased the above Westerfield model some time ago. Whoever built it did an excellent job. I do, however, want to update the lettering to the later sachem. Most ( if not all) of these cars came equ

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

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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