All, My next kit to finally complete is Sunshine's 64.8 NKP 10'6" Rebuild with the opening end door. In checking the PDS photos, I only see cars painted a solid Freight car color, sides and ends. The

Both photos nicely show the “stop blocks” applied to the windows. Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of "Andy Laurent via groups.io" <andy.laurent@...> Reply-To

From Railway Age 1947 – The CB&Q has offered to purchase 1,290 wartime troop sleepers from the War Assets Administration at a price of $1,200 for each car, Ralph Budd, Burlington president announced o

On the left side of the DT&I doble door car, what is the symbol on the left? https://donstrack.smugmug.com/UtahRails/Emil-Albrecht-Photos/1949-Mar-Ogden/i-Vj946Sg/A Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

Group is there a published roster of 5/5 ended 50’ 10’ IH both single door and double door boxes with and with out end doors that can be modeled with the Proto 2000/Walthers boxes? The reason I’m aski

We are pleased to announce the 2023 Shake-n-Take project to be presented at the Prototype Rails meet in Cocoa Beach this coming January. The next project will be… (drum roll please) The Santa-Fe class

Hi List Members, Image of LS&MS 'Red Line' double sheathed boxcar at the Union Manufacturing Company facility in New Britain Connecticut (undated) at the link below https://www.unionmfgco.com/story-of

I built and upgraded a Bowser Chicago Great Western (CGW) covered hopper kit. I built the Bowser covered hopper car in CGW class LO, numbered 70057. The Bowser covered hopper kit including lettering i

3Hello Does anyone have one or two sets of PSC #32110 they would sell? It is the cast brass tank car railing stanchions. Thanks! Elliot

Has any one got a photo of one of these cars with the yellow lettering in the late 40s early 50s please. Many thanks Paul Doggett. England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

What makes a bag a "standard railroad bean bag"? Were there standards for other commodity bags? Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Ryan Tamburrino shares his work developing and printing a pair of B&O box cars in the latest Resin Car Works blog post. http://blog.resincarworks.com/3d-printing-an-o-scale-box-car/ Eric Hansmann RCW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMrRTr2r8lU Above is a link to Caboose Stop Hobbies virtual show. At the 7 minute mark are some resin kits, at the 11 minute mark are some brass bulkheads. Clark Propst

Hi Guys I have just finished a Sunshine 6000-7999 series Reefer which thanks to Roger Hinman I numbered in the 8000 series. Paul Doggett. England

Some thoughts about Clover Leaf USRA hoppers I have always wanted to do a model of the Clover Leaf’s USRA hoppers. While the physical model is no problem-just a plain vanilla USRA twin hopper with the

Several years ago I bought a number of items including boilers and other open ca loads from a company doing 3-D printing. Their line is very extensive. I now find that I have forgotten the name of the

Photo: Baggage Carload Of Bicycles Photo courtesy of “Sm2501” on the Classic & Antique Bicycle Exchange Website. https://thecabe.com/forum/attachments/hjc26-1-jpg.519167/ You just never know where you

Hello all, I have noticed from various video footage and pictures that it was not completely uncommon for baggage cars to be seen in a freight passing by. I am not referring to MOW but to a regular pa

Photo: ATSF Gondola 173830 (Ga-11) Cropped Jack Delano photo from the Library of Congress Taken at Needles, CA, in 1943. This is one of 550 cars in the Ga-11 class. Original series was 173500 to 17404

Hey all, I have some West Shore Models, Furnaro & Camerlengo, and NEB&W Green Dot Models freight car kits I would like to sell to free up some space. Asking $30/car and willing to accept offers. See t