Anyone have a sense of the number of when (if at all) the Pullman Standard 52ft gondola of the 50’s caught up and exceeded the combined Greenville and Bethlehem designs of the 40’s? Put another way, a

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 at the same

The recent question about the Bowser boxcar prototype peaks my interest into what are the actual prototypes of the classic Athearn Blue Box freight cars. Despite being on the market since the 1950s I’

My longtime friend and prototype operations mentor passed away on 30 Oct. His wife passed in 2021 and I inherited his complete basement filling layout. This includes a small hobby shop's worth of unbu

I thought after yesterday’s hindsight event that I would share this work-in-progress. Its my attempt to capture the car shown in this Jack Delano image:https://www.loc.gov/item/2017878164/ I feel a bi

These HO freight cars are for sale. Price for all seven is $150 postpaid to US address. Original boxes, very light use, Contact Hugh T Guillaume, mguill1224 at aol dot com Tangent 11575-03 GATX 6000 G

Can anyone with an ORER between 1935 and 1944 assist me with a search for RICX Rustless Iron & Steel Co. hopper cars? Thanks Rupert Gamlen Auckland NZ

While perusing eBay, I came across this trio of images showing MoW cars at Washington Terminal in Washington, DC which I thought to particularly interesting: Washington Term # 503 Ivy City DC 1/1/75 h

Clarence Zink wrote The whole press is shown in photo 2. Fratelli Pagnoni (now known as Pagnoni Impianti) made a variety of presses. They started out making small presses for the wine and olive oil bu

Hello friends, I have a ATSF Bx-Fe-24 (at least I think so) 50' steel box car with inferior trucks which I need to replace. A lot of these cars rode on Allied Full Cushion trucks, so I would like to u

Hello, Here is a stack of Belfast and Moosehaed Lake switchlists from 1965. The pages are about 6x12". They list mostly boxcars of feed from Railroads all over North America. Guessing about 50 to 70 s

Has anyone identified the closest prototype for the 'generic' Bowser HO 50' boxcar? https://www.bowser-trains.com/history/50foothistory.html ____ Mark Mathu Whitefish Bay Wis.

Does anyone know what year GATX Tank cars had the lines over and under the GATX Reporting Marks added or removed? Thank You Eric Thur

Hi Folks, Can anyone help me find information on tank cars owned or leased by Shamrock Refining. I think their own cars had SOGX as reporting marks, but perhaps there were others that we leased. Thank

F/S HO scale Tangent General American 1948-Design 8000 Gallon Welded Tank Car GATX Black Lease, have two -road numbers 68226 and 68234 - will sell one - original box - $45 postpaid to US address - con

F/S two P2K 10000 Gallon Type 21 Insulated Tank Cars, road numbers SDRX 26148 and SDRX 26164, like new in original boxes, $21 each postpaid to US address, contact Hugh T Guillaume: mguill1224 at aol d

I think that 1028 is just faded -- all of the cars were painted (and repainted) the same way On 12/8/2022 11:55 PM, B.L. Griffith wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

To jump off from the prior topic; Engineering characteristics of boxcar ends This other prior topic may interest some https://realstmfc.groups.io/g/main/topic/pratt_vs_howe_boxcar_trusses/17205702 --

Hello everyone, Just wanted to ask if there is anywhere online/book where I could read about the engineering incorporated into boxcar ends (or even roofs)? I'm primarily interested in what made certai

Hi I can find no information on the list about these KCS cars, which I assume formed a 7300 and 7900 series. Wondered if anyone knew anything about them? Have tried a couple of KCS forums elsewhere. A