Photo: NKP Livestock Car 41001 Courtesy of Adam C. Matthews on Facebook. He comments: "Where's the beef? It's riding the Nickel Plate! Shipping up to six trains of livestock per day, and faster than a

Stencil On CB&Q Boxcar This photo of CB&Q Boxcar 25776 was posted on the CB&Q Group by Hol Wagner. What caught my eye was the stencil spelling out what commodities should not be loaded in this car: DO

GSC was located in Eddystone, PA, near the Baldwin Locomotive Works. GSC supplied the industry with one piece engine beds/frames with cylinders cast integrally, tender trucks, tender under frames and

Guys; I can attest to the fact that “foobie” was a term in use in SoCal while I was living there, mid-late 80’s at earliest, early 90’s at latest, to refer to a certain part of female anatomy enhanced

Boiler Load Project This started out as a simple enough project: Put a Bachmann boiler on an HO scale Red Caboose/InterMountain flat car. I've done a number of flat car loads, including using smaller

This photo is said to have been taken ca.1910 at the Eastern Packet Pier looking at the Commercial Wharf in Boston, MA just off Atlantic Avenue. Rail service at this location was provided by the Union

Eric; I look forward to seeing what you do next! I like pencils, too, and they do work great for weathering boards and decks. A technique I got very fond of in some of my more recent steel box car, go

Eric; Nice job on the PRR X23! Very convincing weathering! Thanks for contributing! Elden Gatwood

Folks, I think recently someone posted a link to two Wilson's steel 4 foot reefers with ice bunkers, showing clearly the roof hatches. I believe the car numbers were in the 2000 series. I can't find t

To add: I read a group of letters between PRR and a customer where PRR billed the customer for clean-out of a gondola where PRR got back loaded with trash and most damaging, oil drums full of waste oi

Guys; There are literally tons of correspondence on violations of instructions & stenciling I have read, where RRs like PRR, P&LE and P&WV wrote to their counterparts or customers, sometimes sending t

Nice car, Chuck! Elden Gatwood

George Toman shared his work upgrading a boxcar on the Resin Car Works biog. Bill Welch had challenged him to the task before Bill passed away. George completed the work as a tribute to Bill. http://b

To follow on to Dan Mitchell's summary, here's a quick history of the Mathieson cars from Rich Yoder: http://www.richyodermodels.com/mathieson_history.htm Ben Hom

In the past few months, I've frequently looked to the "steamerafreightcars" website for comprehensive prototype data. Today, I was surprised and concerned to a notice that the domain name is available

Folks, The Winter, 2020 issue (#115) of The Keystone Modeler is now available on the NEW PRRT&HS web site. To get there, simply click on www.prrths.org/tkm To download the issue, as well as several pa

In The Pipeline: A New HO Scale Santa Fe Prototype Model Sometime next month a major manufacture will announce a new, plastic R-T-R HO scale model of a Santa Fe freight car from the early and second-g

Corey, Nice work on those trucks. I wonder how much additional work would be involved in tweaking them to replicate the trucks used under the helium cars. Attached is Jay Miller's handout that has vie

I was giving some thought to these trucks, wondering why high capacity cars (85 and 90 tons capacity) of the pre-war period all seemed to use clasp brakes while our modern 100 and 125 ton cars don't,

Above is a shot of an Exacta rail UP B-50-15 flat car. I purchased the model at Naperville sub sequent to a presentation by Exacta rail. The model was very well done and needed onl a few upgrades. The