Los Angeles Area Prototype Modelers Meet - Bellflower, CA (October 3) Information from Jeff Smith... "The Next LAAPM meet is still scheduled for Saturday Oct 3, 2020. Same location* same time as last

The MRH paint mapping guide suggests Vallejo Scarlet Red 72.712 for floquil oxide red. Scarlet red looks very very red. Has anyone actually used this color and can offer an opinion before I buy a bott

Saw a Tichy gon for sale. It amounts to their 40’ flat with wood sides. Is their a prototype for this? Clark Propst Mason City Iowa

Photo: Simple Weathering Project - CB&Q Boxcar 12138 A 1903 photo from the Kansas City Public Library: https://kchistory.org/islandora/object/kchistory%3A100542/datastream/OBJ/view Good close-up view

Photo: Kansas City Rail Yard, West Bluffs An 1895 photo from the Kansas City Public Library: https://kchistory.org/islandora/object/kchistory%3A99149?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=52aa067a23f311ad508d&solr_nav%5Bp

Photo: Early Kansas City Riverfront Scene With A Few Freight Cars An undated photo from the Kansas City Public Library: https://kchistory.org/islandora/object/kchistory%3A116610?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=8b6e0

Photo: Stewart-Peck Gondola Cars An undated photo from the Kansas City Public Library: https://kchistory.org/islandora/object/kchistory%3A102534?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=8b6e0f30cd8eb3736ee7&solr_nav%5Bpage%5

Friends, Since we're discussing Burro cranes, I offer five more cranes for you to contemplate. I think these are all the rest that I have, certainly all that I have in digitized format. Buckingham Bra

For those enamored with the fleet of Dunbar Molasses and Syrup Company tank cars we saw recently, Tangent has just announced 8,000 gallon tank cars with that lettering. https://www.tangentscalemodels.

Friends, Today I'm sharing six photos of C&O Burro cranes. All these photos were taken in the 1980s or 1990s, most at Charlottesville, but two views are of the same crane at Gladstone (front and rear)

Is there an archie for RMC? I have a Sunshine kit #2.1 for a C&NW boxcar in the yellow/green scheme. There's a note written inside o see an article in the Sept. 1994 RMC and I'd like to see it. JimH

Photo: PFE Reefer With Ventilator Hood Propped Open A undated photo from the Louisiana Digital Library https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/hnoc-clf%3A6627 This photo can be enlarged q

A new freight car review is available. It covers the Schoen and Pressed Steel early hopper car production. Here's a link to the blog post announcement. http://designbuildop.hansmanns.org/2020/06/20/sc

Back in the 1990’s, I purchased some copies of ACF builder’s photos from Frank Ellington and have some fairly extensive listings of rolls (159) and frames of 35 mm negatives that he took of ACF builde

What Is This Fellow Doing? A photo from the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017839374/ The fellow appears to have a chalk stick in his hand but instead of making a mark on the

Groups; I have been asked for some info on the X31A cars, so here are some facts: From the mid-thirties production years, there were around 7300 in service, more than many roads’ entire fleets; In 194

Book: Insulation Of Railway Equipment Courtesy of the HathiTrust Digital Library, this is a link to a book published by the Union Fibre Company in 1912 on refrigerator car insulation: https://babel.ha

On some X29 models, I applied strips of 0.005-inch styrene. It's exaggerated but does show up. Tony Thompson tony@...

Photo: Tank Trailers On Flat Cars This is a link to a 1943 photo from the Missouri State Digital Collections: https://digitalcollections.missouristate.edu/digital/collection/FriscoLab/id/113/rec/722 U

Photo: PFE/WP Reefer With Load Of Wines & Cordials An undated photo (Reweigh date 2-1932) from the Louisiana Digital Library: https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/hnoc-clf%3A7204 This