Photo: Watermelons In Livestock Car (Undated) A photo from the Gateway To Oklahoma History website. Description: “A photograph showing railroad car filled with watermelons shipped from Cement, Oklahom

Dennis - Hmm. There is no MASS market for MofW, especially completely generic MofW. W&R imported a large number of prototypically accurate MofW cars for the Northern Pacific, and they all sold out. I

Time to finish up barrel car project, which means that I have several dozen wooden barrels to stain. Any suggestions would be appreciated; coming out new from barrel factory would likely be a light oa

Photo: Holly Sugar Plant - Huntington Beach (Circa 1917) Photo from the Los Angeles Public Library collection. https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/95208 Photo can be enlarged. Photo ed

Here’s some old school modeling; the Branchline wood reefer kit build almost OOB. I did substitute wire handgrabs for the sides and on the roof otherwise used all the parts that came with the kit. I a

Photo: Illinois Central Refrigerator Car 59094 (Undated) Photo from the University of Oregon Libraries: https://oregondigital.org/catalog/oregondigital:df71fp45w Partial view, Photo can be enlarged. M

Photos: Depressed Center Flat Car Used In The Manhattan Project Photo from the Atlantic magazine. https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/Slob7z2K3VMZ2tl1dYvi_FQo1ME=/1500x1052/media/img/photo/2015/07/70-

Photo: Cudahy Packing Company Plant & Union Stockyards – Salt Lake City Photo from Photo from University of Utah Marriott Library: https://collections.lib.utah.edu/details?id=994206 Circa mid-1940s. N

Photo: Ogden Stockyards & Nearby Railyards Photo from Weber State University Stewart Library: https://cdm.weber.edu/digital/collection/OSY/id/38 This photo can be enlarged. Biographical/Historical Not

Current build is a Santa Fe Reefer kit numbered 32153. A kit I believe produced by InterMountain for the Santa Fe Historical Society. I need help with the Reefer, in series 31653 to 33155, with the ru

To All, The late Frank Peacock’s Estate has been consigned for auction with Stout Auctions of Indiana. The auction will take place Thursday, June 16th. You can view the lots here: http://www.stoutauct

Photo: Loading Corn In Box Cars (1915) A photo from the Gateway To Oklahoma History website: https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1473180/m1/1/?q=Loading Photo can be enlarged. Use the link.

Photo: N&W Livestock Car 29274 (Undated) Photo from the Virginia Tech University Libraries https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/image_viewer.php?q=ns2779 Click on photo to enlarge. Class SK. View of roof. Bob

These have been sold. Thanks, -Andy Carlson Hello- I have 10 sets of Overland models #2163 "Rectangular Hole Roofwalk for Athearn AT&SF caboose (W/Hand grab)" New in mint packaging. For quite sometime

I’d read this article on building and weathering a white reefer and ordered a bottle of Vallejo Brown wash to see how I could weather my own light colored cars. While Jim doesn’t go into detail I watc

Hello- I have 5 sets of Overland models #2152 "Rectangular Hole Roofwalk for E&B Valley 70-ton covered Hopper" These are for 1958 cu ft covered hoppers and probably for 2-bay PS2 covered hoppers. New

Hello- I have 10 sets of Overland models #2163 "Rectangular Hole Roofwalk for Athearn AT&SF caboose (W/Hand grab)" New in mint packaging. For quite sometime I use Overland etched running boards for va

Photo: The “Tuna Fish” Wreck Photo from the Facebook Nunda (New York) Historical Society ( https://www.facebook.com/NundaHistoricalSociety ) Caption: “This photograph of Dalton’s Tuna Fish Wreck in Au

Recently I purchased 8 negatives off of Ebay that are of several B&O box cars at Richmond, WV in May 1938. Hope some will find these of interest. Richard Wilkens

Bruce Smith wrote: “With respect to the number of tubes, no, not exactly. The X31s (no subclass) and X31F had 4 tubes in the center of the car and 2 at each end. The X31C had 6 tubes in the center of