I have a few Un Decorated Intermountain 1958 Cu Ft Two Bay (Open Sided) Covered Hopper Kits that I wanted to finish. I found a few decal options on the K4 Decal website for these cars, including PM, W

Hi Gents, I'm building an O scale Intermountain Type 27 tank car and am in need of an AB brake gear diagram or some good pictures of AB brake gear installations. Does anybody have anything you can sha

Victor, Accurail makes a nice plastic model of the AAR 40ft gondola, and somewhere is a description of which RRs owned those cars. You might check the Accurail website or search in this list in the Gr

I'm adding detail to a Scotia Scale Models 36' wood truss-rod boxcar kit. I'm having trouble identifying some hardware and its uses on the #3070 sprue in the below photo. I've looked at hardware in Ca

According to Sunshine's PDS, the NHIX 900-999 series frozen food reefers were principally routed between Washington state and the Bronx Terminal Market in NYC. Does this suggest that they would often

I have some brass O scale rail. Al Smith Sonora CA On Saturday, November 19, 2022 at 02:30:55 PM PST, Edward <edb8381@...> wrote: I am looking for some old steel Code 172 rail from O scale's dark past

Were there any 40 ft. (40-42 ft.) standard design gons other than USRA that could be mass produced in plastic for multiple roads in HO? (Of course, I'm referring to the steam or transition era.) It se

Have 1 gently used Complete set of books for sale. Contact me off the list. Sincerely, Richard Yoder oscale48@...

Hi All, I have several Car, Locomotive Builders and Maintenance Cyclopedias for sale. Please contact me off the list. Rich Yoder oscale48@...

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