I’ve noticed that some C&NW wood (cupola type) waycars featured a number board type appendage along the letterboard, right above one of the side windows on both sides. What was the purpose of this dev

Sunshine kits 5.7 NKP 52'-6" Steel Gon 15-panel Greenville Design 24.28 SLRX Fishbelly Beer Reefer Large Herald 1947-’62 (have 2) 64.5 NKP 10'-6" IH Rebuild Murphy Ends Panel Roof 64.8 NKP 10'-6" IH R

Charlie Duckworth's recent photos of his C&O boxcar 5461 motivated me to upgrade a similar O-scale car that I built from an Intermountain kit in 1994. The car now has new roof walks, uncoupling levers

Eric and list: Waaaay back the NEB&W under their Green Dot Line of resin kits (probably farmed out to F&C to produce) had NYC/Rutland milk car kits. Besides these kits, Precision Scale offered several

I'm just starting to rebuild my layout after moving from CA to TX. I have a website now with a blog. The most recent entry shares how I've decided to light my layout with LED's. You can take a look at

Hi has anyone got photos of MDT 6000-7999 reefers in the orange scheme of the early 1950s please I am building a Sunshine kit. Many thanks Paul Doggett. England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Scaletrains made the announcement of their kit classic PS-1 boxcar. The artwork dates are later 40's to early 50's. https://www.scaletrains.com/ho-scale/ho-scale-freight-cars/kit-classics-ho-scale-p-s

Hello Steam Era Modeler: We are pleased to announce that Westerfield Models is having a Multi-day NATIONAL MODEL RAILROAD MONTH SALE . The Multi-Day National Model Railroad Month Sale will be in effec

Hello all, A recent mention made me wonder if anyone has photographic evidence or knows of any case where an Alaska RR boxcar or other railcar came into the lower 48 (outside of Washington/Oregon)? Se

Photo: Pig Car (Circa 1917) A photo from the Wisconsin Historical Society: https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM24722 Description: “Group of people standing in front of a Soo Line freight

With the recent greenish B&O Rapido USRA boxcars, the STMFC list threads have concentrated on effective workarounds on decorated shells. Here are the basics: Prototype: B&O freight car brown was the B

I built and upgraded a Bowser Rock Island (RI) covered hopper kit. I built the Bowser covered hopper car in RI class LO, numbered 491. The Bowser covered hopper kit is an excellent match for its RI pr

Hey all, I have some P2K, Intermountain, and Red Caboose freight car kits I would like to sell to free up some space. Asking $15/car and willing to accept offers. See the photos here: https://www.flic

https://youtu.be/00EwiKZ_k1I This link should take you to an inside view of a Swift reefer being loaded circa 1950.

Were there packing houses that took in SIDES of meat (carcasses), and shipped out only packaged meats ? I'm thinking of places like Oscar Mayer and others that were located in places like Madison, Wis

Bill The CB&Q cars' decks were 1'6" longer than the NP cars 52'0" decks, but it's close enough. :-) The CB&Q series 92000-92399 were identical, were they not ? The ORER lists them all together as 9200

Can anyone tell me when the CNJ started adding the Lady Liberty Emblem to its freight cars? Thanks in advance. Colin Meikle

Folks, The Fall 2022 issue of The Keystone Modeler, our 122nd issue, is now ready for download from our web site at https://www.prrths.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=171391&module_id=451730&fbcli

Dear group I am looking for a drawing I saw on line a while back. It is a cut away drawing of a truss rod meat reefer showing the wide variety of products such a car might be carrying -sides of meat ,

My desktop computer is sick and I am using my laptop, but I don't have Jim's email on this one. Jim, could you drop me a note so that I get in touch with you. Thanks, Steve Hile shile@...