Excerpt from: http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2010-March/097205.html My other vice besides language is model railroading. In the service of this vice, I subscribe to the e-mail list o

Folks; I’m sorry if we discussed this before, but I may have missed it. What was the story behind this burning box car? Does anyone have any photos of burning freight cars they can share? Thanks! Elde

RE: The modified gondola coupled to the wrecker…Was that car part of a CB&Q revenue series of the same design? Steve Johnson

Elden, The PRR F28 is, as you know, an all steel car, so other than the paint and a few rubber parts, there isn’t anything to burn. Best I can think is that the load burnt, or at least the cribbing on

For Throwback Thursday I’m posting this photo of my new O‑scale Santa Fe express boxcar, a recent pandemic project. It started out as an automobile car that the late Jim Pierce built from a vintage At

Man, that is wild! Thanks for sharing, Tim! Elden Gatwood

Friends, I've been perplexed for a number of years by several tank car photos I've scavenged for possible future models (Yeah, right!). Today I spent a couple of hours playing detective, and can offer

Fabulous story, Ken! This is the weird stuff we rarely talk about, but is fascinating. The correspondence is a good read, because the car owner and RR on which the car was destroyed/damaged, usually c

Bill; I wish I still had my copy, but it never got back to me after I loaned it. That is a FABULOUS photo. I looked at it often. I wish I had that one in my digital files. There is a lot of correspond

Tim; Thanks for the fabulous photo! I have not seen that one. Wonder how the tank car ignited? I saw a lot of burnt cars on the PRR during childhood. Hot steel and wooden parts don’t mix. There was a

Is there a decal set that features the logos (Gulf, Flying A, etc.) for the ends of the tanks at a bulk oil distributor? Thanks in advance for any help. Bill.Pardie

Red Owl foods had grocery stores in Minnesota and some in surrounding states. They had a warehouse in Hopkins Minn. on the M&StL. I was given a seal book to transcribe from the middle on 1949 to Jan 1

Hi guys, An early F&C kit was the 37' wood meat reefer. I was looking at images of it, and it seems to be a different prototype from the Rapido reefer (wider fascia below the roofline and perhaps a lo

Guys; At least on PRR: early gon and hopper side replacements involved removing the rivets, then replacement of side panels or boards, followed by re-riveting, painting and lettering. As time went by

Thanks Dave and Steve. This info works very well for me. Another great example of the shared help available from this fine list. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

Gary; How about this one: PRR FD1 casting on PRR F31A, 1951. I have another somewhere of the F30A castings upside down shipped on a series of flats, but can’t find it. There are also photos of loco fr

Astute STMFC Modelers, These box car ends have been in my parts box for years. Does anybody know the manufacturer? Danke! John Golden

From Ted Cullota's series of books, "Focus on the Freight Car vol ten other freight car types" has some great photos of various tank cars pictured from the 1930s. One of particular interest to me is t

Photo: Mostly Gondolas (Circa 1940s) A photo from the University of Texas Libraries: https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/sites/library.uta.edu.digitalgallery/files/20080000-20089999/20089977.jpg Cl

Group; I may have missed my mark. PRR created the X54 to provide Campbell’s Soup in particular, a fleet of cars for which they could avoid dependence on gathering enough other cars to meet their daily