I have for sale a copy of American Refrigerator Transit by Stuart T. Maher, G.J. Michels, Jr., and Gene Semon. This is a comprehensive history of American Refrigerator Transit, including a thorough lo

Canadian National Refrigerator Car 209120 (1937) Photo from the Government of Canada: https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=3520058 Click and scroll

I have several black GM&O war emergency hoppers from Proto 2000. I would like to remove the lettering and replace it with Illinois Terminal decals. I have tried soaking the lettering with solvaset and

I have come to realize over the past few days that everyone on this list has not pursued the model railroading hobby from college to the present day as have I. There were many good and accurate commen

George Toman shares his HO scale Red Caboose reefer upgrades to reflect the R-30-9 class prototypes in the latest Resin Car Works blog post. http://blog.resincarworks.com/building-a-western-pacific-pf

Dan Hall of Southwest Scale Productions has recently restocked his selection of finely molded styrene box car doors. Most are available, including the 4-6-6 Youngstown part 612. Website is http://www.

Does anyone collect Globe tank cars anymore? Globe made some nice cars that Irv Athearn never produced. I am thinking of the two-dome tank cars. Globe used pot metal parts, though, that frequently det

The easiest to make jig to bend consistent grab irons is simply a hole drilled in a length of .060 or .080 styrene strip. Drill a hole to fit the wire the width of the grab iron from the end of a stri

Placards Hazardous materials placards with their UN numbers came in after the time frame for this group. But was there a phase-out of other paper placards such as “Unload Other Side”, “Do Not Hump”, e

The long standing paint for Santa Fe refers has been ACCUPAINT New Haven Harvest Yellow. Tru Color now has this paint in their line. The attached were done with the original Accu Paint. Bill Pardie Se

Could some one here offer a brief tutorial on the size of tank car domes? This query comes from a recent comment about wanting to 'cut down' domes to shorter size for specific cars, related to car cap

Hi, I model the SP but am interested in having at least semi realistic models of other road’s cars in my trains which led me here. I hope that I can pick the collective brains about models that are av

When Rapido announced they were going to make the USRA SS boxcars RTR two Westerfield kits showed up on eBay for $20 each. I built one as a Milwaukee Road and the other for the Ann Arbor. Just complet

I have three questions about U.S. Army tank car USAX 11225. I have an image taken in 1958, and next to LT WT 40900 is FIN 8 49. Where was FIN? Lettered on the right side of the tank is EMERGENCY USGA

I'm decaling a tank car and will be airbrushing it with a clear flat coating to kill the gloss. I've used Model Master clear flat acrylic, but it results in a slight milky look, especially over dark c

Having been a lifelong Southern Pacific modeler I have witnessed many incarnations of PFE models. Early Silver Streak kits had prepainted sides. I don't recall anyone questioning the color. Varuous ma

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