Was Richard Hendrickson ever able to do the followup article on modeling rebuilt PFE Reefers in the Rail Model Journal? Here is the initial article on the pre-rebuilt versions with a closing teaser sa

Greetings, The Great Northern Railway Historical Society Modelers Committee is considering developing an HO scale Dalman-Andrews truck as one of our upcoming projects. The first thing we are trying to

Photo: N&W Livestock Car 29274 A photo from the Virginia Tech Universities Library: https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/image_viewer.php?q=ns2779 Click on the photo to enlarge it. Part of series 29000-29749.

Friends, Yesterday while thrashing around on the web in old copies of CALIFORNIA HIGHWAYS AND PUBLIC WORKS magazines, I ran across this mid-1930s photo taken at Roseville on the SP. It shows what appe

I found a method of glueing 0.005" styrene to a base styrene years ago which has stood the test of time. In pattern making, weakly attached laminations can often delaminate when pulling an RTV mold fr

I was looking at the .005" diagonal straps used on a recent single sheathed boxcar project - and noted that there were small divots in the surface of the straps. Its an age-old problem when using thin

Loading Ice With Block & Tackle Gear A 1915 photo from the Huntington Library: https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll2/id/15122/rec/64 Description: "Lordsburg Ice Plant - Men loading

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

I read AP news article on model railroading this morning. Maybe our hobby isn’t dying after all! https://hosted.ap.org/article/c10710b3559073bd0a18bd9975c5da35/antidote-pandemic-blues-some-assembly-re

Just heard from Jon's daughter, Stephanie, that Jon passed away on January 21. Jon was diagnosed with lung cancer in early January and it was too advanced to treat. I believe Jon was one of the origin

While we're on the subject of Frisco, I have noticed that early offset-side twin hoppers and covered hoppers, when new, were black. Later ones were that Frisco red. The Frisco gons of the 'Greenville'

I have a couple of Frisco (SL-SF, a road I'm not familiar with) boxcars to paint and want to use SCII. Any recommendations on paint color. I model 1953 so anything from the 40's through 1953 is good.

I have been looking at a lot of Swift reefer pictures recently, partially for reweight dates and locations. I have seen a number of cars with EC which makes good sense as East Chicago, Inidana. A main

PRECO Fan Ownership A question posted on several other groups. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA ++++ Does anyone know who owned the motors that would be attached to reefers to run the PRECO fans while the cars

I just started on a F&C USRA DS box car kit. They only molded the outside stile on the ends. Meaning I'm to add the inside one. Their stile is so narrow I would not be able to keep my drill from slidi

Photo: N&W Livestock Car 33000 A photo from the Virginia Tech Universities Library: https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/image_viewer.php?q=NS2780 Click on the photo to enlarge it. Cars were forty-two feet lo

I have a friend in need of a Centralia Hobbies SOO Line wood caboose model. Does anyone have a model they are willing to part with? Thanks, Clark Propst

Hi Eric and List Members, Thanks Eric for the interesting links. How would the carbon black product have been shipped prior to the use of dedicated carbon black hoppers? Bags or barrels in boxcars? Ot

Continuing to consolidate, rationalize, and I decided to backdate slightly (Not as far as Ray Breyer wants me too) so I have some freight cars for sale. List is mostly plastic with some resin. contact

An update on Resin Car Works order processing has been posted on our blog. Don’t miss the upcoming kit teasers. http://blog.resincarworks.com/rcw-vacation/ Eric Hansmann RCW web guy