I’ve had this RTR car for a while and just corrected its most serious flaw. Only 5400 had the black doors; the remaining cars in the series doors matched the sides. I mixed up some TruColor CB&Q BCR w

Photo: Railroad Yards - Minneapolis, Minnesota (1939) Photo from the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017718495/resource/ Good assortment of period freight cars. Bob Chaparro He

I am watching more mid-WWII videos on you tube, and made notes of the reefers in the film “LIFE LINE OF THE NATION AMERICAN RAILROADS IN WWII Carl Dudley 70892”, at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH

Looking for more colour images of freight cars, and this film looked useful for immediate post-WWII PFE reefers starting at 5:29:1940’S SILENT HOME MOVIE TRIP TO PHOENIX BILTMORE HOTEL, NOGALES AND PI

As mentioned yesterday, I have posted some additional comments about PFE orange, in prototype and model form, in my blog. If you’re interested, the link is below. https://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/20

There's a nice color video on you tube about dieselization on the New Haven taken around 1950 which includes some PFE reefers. The particular portion of the NH was the one coming from Maybrook where N

Photo: Tonopah & Tidewater Boxcar 130 (1940) Photos from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas https://special.library.unlv.edu/ark:/62930/d1jm23m03 Photo can be enlarged. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

I was going through the paint section in my local hobby shop and I came upon a rattle can of TCP-4011 Dark Primer. This was new to me as I had no previous knowledge that TCP was making any primers. My

Hello Group, looking to buy the following: National Scale Car MK 105.1 B&O M55 & MK 105.2 B&O M55a Boxcar Mini-kits Please contact me off list Thanks Rich Christie rhcdmc@...

From the "While looking for something else" department I came across these cardboard car sides that were part of kits made by Comet that I understand are from the 1930's. Just thought it was interesti

Asking if someone can direct me to a photo of the early Klasing Power Hand Brake with short vertical staff coming out of the housing going up above the running board where brake wheel mounted on the v

Another really nice b&w Library of Congress image of John Vachon: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017792367/resource/ Nice subtle weathering with pealing paint here and there . . . Rob

A friend gave me one of the subject kits. In the box are 5 sections of "tube" for the body of the pressure tank, and 2 ends. There are also 3 small "manways", and a number of straight resin strips of

Scanning some old slides and came across this one from our September 1962 trip. UP yards, Cheyenne WY. At the time I was mostly taken by the Challenger and Big Boy awaiting disposal but now the tank c

Photo: Forward Facing Great Northern Rocky (1939) Photo from the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017718317/resource/ For George Clooney - Goats who stare at men. Bob Chaparro H

Owl Mountain SP flatcars. Tichy PFE reefer On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 12:18 PM Tim O'Connor <timboconnor_at_comcast.net_Worth51@...> wrote: A sample of HO scale SP box car models off the top of my head B

Photo: Flour Mills & Freight Cars, Minneapolis, Minnesota (1939) Photo from the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017719026/resource/ Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

I am working in the Delta Region of Arkansas. Today I was running north on Arkansas 1 and found this tank car about 4 miles north of Wynne. I'm guessing this car ended it's life in company service. Je

Folks, The Spring 2022 issue of The Keystone Modeler, our 120th issue, is now ready for download from our web site at https://www.prrths.org/content.aspx?page_id=22... The Keystone Modeler is a free E

Photos: SCCX Tank Cars 167 & 169 Photo by Stephen R. Santangelo on the Facebook The Freight Car Enthusiast group. He comments (2021): “Caught these nearly 40 years ago at the refineries near the Los A