A slight bit out of era for this list, but I'm looking for information on Canadian Pacific 41' Drop Bottom Gondola's, specifically those known as the Big Otis. I was browsing through Canadian Freight

Note the order the heralds are applied: SP leading on one side with UP leading on the other. Dead giveaway. Thanks! Brian Ehni (Sent from my iPhone)

Farmers Loading Poultry (Undated) A photo from the National Archives: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/148742421 On the link scroll to enlarge the photo. The poultry car is LPTC 1550 and carries the na

Wrong. Looking at the photos, one includes the A end, while another shows the B, including some of the retarder. Thanks! Brian Ehni (Sent from my iPhone)

In 1923 Mt Vernon built 100 automobile boxcars for the Western Pacific. I've never seen a grab iron support like this before on any car. Evidence indicate the setup lasted into the 1940's at least. Ha

I take it from some other posts that these have begun arriving. I have a few questions for this group, first of all, are people satisfied with their fidelity to the prototype, general quality, and let

NP Ice Bunker Ladders 1925 -Hudson

The fate of B&M 65676 1925 -Hudson

Can someone tell me if Detail Associates and Details West are still in business and filling current orders? I have had a couple of Detail Associates items backordered through WKW since 2016 and 2018.

According to a post on the S4 society board (British) Iain passed away in his sleep this morning. R.I.P. Steve (I am hoping the moderators will forgive me straying a bit from the topic, given Iain's c

I forgot to point out that's an A-50-15 SP automobile box car with the Youngstown doors style that the SP applied to the Overnight and some other postwar box cars -- But no one has ever done those doo

Rob, I have been looking for color photos of any B&O brown boxcar for years, along with others, and they are pretty limited. I skipped some steps in my weathering process, like the reweigh/repack chan

I was just examining a recently purchase of a Milwaukee 40 ft rib sided boxcar from Exactarail. I am quite pleased with the model, however, I noticed a rather unique arrangement (to me) of the brake c

This is my first post to this group. I have been modeling off and on for the past 50 years. I model the C&O in 1952. Before last month, my feelings on boxcars were that they were either 40' or 50' wit

At www.boxcars.us there are several ATSF flatcars photographed in 1985 that appear to be quite old, but the road numbers are not in my 1963 ORER. Perhaps they are renumbered for MOW or specialized ser

Hi all, pardon the intrusion. I still have a good bunch of books left from the last sale looking for good homes. Prices as listed, some reduced, offers entertained, please respond by email ONLY to <bn

A series of freight car weathering steps applied to one model are featured in the latest DesignBuildOp blog post. Weathering steps designbuildop.hansmanns.org Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

I haven't seen any mention here of the new on-line presence of the NKPHTS archive at: https://archive.nkphts.org/ Mostly photos so far, I know they also have a drawing collection. Dennis Storzek

Check out the video at the bottom of Adam's homepage... https://platecmp.com/ Darrall Swift - LaGrange, Ohio Modeling the BN/MILW in North Central Montana, Great Falls to Shelby, Circa: August-Septemb

I was fortunate to be at IRM yesterday for Rapido’s event. Bill Schneider had several early production units of the X-3 tank cars that I got a chance to actually touch. They look very nice. Between di