Photo: Dunnage For Pineapple Shipment (1960) A photo from the Virginia Tech University Library: https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/image_viewer.php?q=ns2974 This photo can be enlarged. Air bag dunnage to pr

Photo: NKP Depressed Center Flatcar 2905 (Undated) A photo from the Virginia Tech University Library: https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/image_viewer.php?q=ns2588 This photo can be enlarged. Bob Chaparro He

Does anyone have a Federal Spec (or a Pantone color match) for Southern green? Schuyler

OK here are 5 in the que in various stages of building and finishing. From the bottom up, the bottom car is a Tichy/Sunshine mini kit that I got in a trade from Clark Propst. Love it as I've never bui

Shots of the MR&BT yards at Herculaneum, Missouri they weren’t dated but assume around WWI St. Joseph Lead Company in the background. Not sure why the focus is bad as the book images are sharp Book is

Photos: Train Load Of Wine (Undated) Photos from the California Revealed website: https://californiarevealed.org/islandora/object/cavpp%3A112193 https://californiarevealed.org/islandora/object/cavpp%3

Not a freight car but a kit bashed tender for any of the following SP locos 2-6-0, 4-6-0, 2-8-0 or 4-8-0. Started with a Bachmann tender frame which matched the SP 0-8-0 tender that I have Brian Moore

I recently purchased a Sunshine Santa Fe Ft-V flat car on Ebay. I was very happy to get the kit.This morning I was inspecting the kit (30.12)and found that the prototype data sheet was correct but the

Photo: WFEX 67395 With Forward Facing Rocky (Circa 1938) A photo from the California Revealed website: https://californiarevealed.org/islandora/object/cavpp%3A112263 Especially for the Great Northern

I have a nice looking brass tank car. It's 2 dome and etched on the bottom of the frame is AJIN, 10-1988. It is painted gloss black and that's the way I bought it. It has trucks with .066 (+/-) wheel

Here is a sneak peak at the new kits I will have available soon. N&W B1a and B1b The kit will have sides, ends, roof, floor and decals. Chad Boas

WM #4009 was one of series #4001-4050 built 7/51. The prototype featured a 7-foot panel door with unusual rib spacing at panel #3 to accommodate the tack board, improved dreadnaught ends, and a diagon

Below is the link to the current blog post that incudes the drawings I failed to include in the D&RGW PSC car instructions https://elgincarshops.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-best-laid-plans-of-mice-and-me

Ed Bommer shares his work on two B&O O scale K-1 class cabooses in the latest DesignBuildOp blog post. http://designbuildop.hansmanns.org/2020/08/17/bo-k-class-bobber-caboose/ Eric Hansmann Murfreesbo

Friends, If anybody wants to take up Jim's suggestion to model one of these using Andy's photo as a guide, the WP general arrangement drawings are attached. These were similar to the P2K 52' Greenvill

John Golden builds a boxcar mini-kit in the latest Resin Car Works blog post. http://blog.resincarworks.com/building-the-rcw-illinois-central-boxcar-mini-kit/ Eric Hansmann RCW web guy

Photo: T&NO Flatcar 20553 (Circa 1912) A photo from the My Old Tulare County Pics Blog: https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZMa1pbyI8Es/VMg4faYA9HI/AAAAAAAABWU/-KR15UX_NB8/s1600/Untitled%2B(327).jpg Click on t

A recent post on another forum discussed weathering of steel boxcar roofs and I queried if all cars had galvanized roofs. Why, does it seem, some cars shed their roof top paint and others didn't? Did

Photo: SFRD 13000 - Stainless Steel Reefer (1946) A photo from the Tulare County Library: https://californiarevealed.org/islandora/object/cavpp%3A177995 I think the caption for this photo is seriously

In August 1955 flooding from Hurricane Diane devastated the Pocono Mountain region of Pennsylvania, taking many lives and causing severe damage to the DL&W. Here are two photos posted to Facebook rece