I would appreciate help identifying this car. The side and end frames are white metal and the decks are basswood. If anyone has found a suitable coupler installation that would also be very useful. I

Looking to sell RPCYC #19 in perfect condition, $30 including shipping to you. Please email me off list. Thanks! Elliot Courtney

I looked at the Don Ball photo and sure enough, first glance, it seems half the cars are black. But closer look reveals FCR colors on them. Which reminded me, it does seem to me that red rusts to a bl

While riding through Montana I spotted two told Milwaukee Road boxcars at a salvage business near Miles City Montana. One is an end door car 50' car. I asked Ed Hawkins about these and he is sure it's

For Sale $75 Complete Mstl852 at g mail . Com

Gents, Well, I need your help again. I'm building up a old Sunshine kit, the Frisco composite auto car, 151000-sereis car with steel doors and 3-3-3 ends. Unfortunately, the instructions don't include

Hello All, Does anyone know when steel banding started being used to bundle lumber for transport on rails? Also, does anyone have any Pics of early steel banding on flatcars they could possibly share?

I built and upgraded a Great Northern (GN) stock car kit. I built the Accurail GN stock single deck stock car in GN class SM that I numbered 55756. The Accurail kit is a excellent match for GN prototy

Just a ‘heads up’ for those who use Archer rivets for additional details they are quitting business November 30th. https://www.archertransfers.com/index.html -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.

Finished the brake components, rods and piping this morning and painted the underframe. I didn’t want to over weather it and just added door scrapes around the right door and scrapes up the side ladde

Were Western Maryland hoppers ever painted black? There's a steam era photo in one of the all color books (Don Ball?) which shows a train full of these hoppers, some painted freight car red, some pain

A February 7, 1935 derailment on the Rutland Railroad at Irona New York was captured in images that have been posted on the Clinton County Historical Association Facebook Page: https://m.facebook.com/

Photo: Rock Island Automobile Boxcar 59074 (Undated) Cropped photo from the Gateway To Oklahoma History website. Taken at Oklahoma City. Double-sheathed car. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Does anyone have drawings of the wooden trestles that the Southern constructed in the 1950s (and earlier) to go across low marshes and swamp areas? These were typically not very tall. I would like to

Good day all The D&RGW stock car kits are now on the website, http://www.yarmouthmodelworks.com/index.php/Home/Index and available for purchase -- Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodel

While reading through the consists on canadasouthern.com, I found that Bay Terminal tank cars (reporting mark BT) were apparently sometimes seen in NYC trains on the Toledo and Lake Divisions and were

All: Please be advised that due to an overwhelming response, most of the resin kits have already been spoken for! I have been promised an updated list of what is available. Mark

A local model railroader passed away recently leaving behind a large collection of HO scale brass and plastic locomotives and rolling stock. There is also a sizeable number of unbuilt resin kits from

Folks, I finished up a Des Plaines C&EI "Buy War Bonds" car. This is a plastic kit with a Des Plaines Viking roof and 8-rung ladders included in the kit. Based on discussion many years ago on this lis

The recent thread on PRR container loads Inbitiated a degree of concernfor me. I had done the above brass gondola years ago using the original decals from Westerfield. As the discussion progressed thr