Greetings, I've been on a tear lately trying to find HO scale matches for freight cars seen in photos of the railroad I model; the Georgetown Branch of the B&O, from 1945-55. As such, I'm pulling info

Photo: Crerar Clinch & Co. Gondola 636 A photo from the Pullman Library: https://pullman-lib.smugmug.com/Railroad-C/i-NXXt4Zj/A Click on the photo to enlarge it. Car built in 1903. A 1923-14 shippers

Does anyone know of a source for a drawing of an Ingoldsby 60-ton ore car? Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

Photo: CNO&TP Automobile Boxcar A photo from the Pullman Library: https://pullman-lib.smugmug.com/Railroad-C/i-CbDFtbh/A Click on the photo to enlarge it. Built by AC&F in 1913. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Photo: ATSF 10338 (Fe-24) A photo from the Pullman Library: https://pullman-lib.smugmug.com/Railroad-As/i-Q9H9QZQ/A Click on the photo to enlarge it. The date of this photo is November 1946 or later.

Part four of the NYC gondola build has posted on the Resin Car Works blog. Jerry Hamsmith and his Gondola Group tackle grab irons and hand brake hardware. http://blog.resincarworks.com/nyc-50-foot-dro

Photo: Milwaukee Road "Peek-A-Boo" Gondola 12 A photo from the Pullman Library: https://pullman-lib.smugmug.com/Railroads-L-M/i-rXKtd6P/A Click on the photo to enlarge it. There was a previous discuss

Gentlemen, Attached below are links to Bill Welch’s wood and steel FGE reefer presentations, circa 2009: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FTQR3LaJ9F4o2jtkM_zBcyEcL2bLJDGj/view?usp=sharing And https://

Hi, Looking for some help identifying the manufacturer of this model. The model has wood sides and ends, has white metal bolsters, and has brass pieces that act as roof cross braces (not sure what to

So I finally got around to building some S-40-6 1955 Live Stock Car from UHPS. While building the cars I discovered that an adult Scale cow would not be able to stand in the lower deck of the car. The

Hi The Pacific Electrics own cars had an unusual hand brake arrangement because of the tight curves. Foreign cars must have traveled over the PE lines with standard handbrake linkage how was this done

Fenton, You are in luck. I do have two kits #42700 FGE wood refrigerator undecorated. Normally, I don't sell from my collection, but I will do so for you because of what you do for this hobby. I liter

Hi List Members, The link below shows a RDG gondola. Along the top chord, I see an area that has been altered - is this a top chord reinforcement, or is this damage that has not yet been repaired? htt

Finished up 2, one the recent RCW kit and the other a Red Caboose RC-4231 kit with a Tichy dual center sill riveted built-up underframe. Pretty similar, each having pros and cons. I like the lower sil

Fenton, Attached are the 7 pages of instructions that came with the kit. Due to my scanner limitations, each page is a separate PDF. Due to email limitations on PDF's, I have to break up the transmiss

Back in the days of the Yahoo groups, Jim Kinkaid posted a large number of builder's photos, mostly Pullman Standard, to the files area of the Modern Freight Car list. It was not possible to migrate t

Well, this IS a double sheathed car, and I would surmise that if you removed the exterior sheathing, you’d see the bolts holding the framing for the slope sheets there in the interior sheathing . . .

Photo: N&W Livestock Car 27603 A photo from the Virginia Tech Universities Library: https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/image_viewer.php?q=ns2776 Click on the photo to enlarge it. Possibly built in 1914. Bob

As long as we're talking about trucks, I am looking for a pair of HO scale 100-ton Andrews trucks, solid bearing, for a steam-era tank car I am working on. Specifically I am working on a model of OZCX

S-40-4 stockcar. https://pullman-lib.smugmug.com/Railroad-R-S/i-vpHmfP2/A Dave Nelson