If you have an interest in new tools or a new use for an old tool, my new blog post on scalpels and other handles as Xacto with scalpel blades is available for your read. Photos and writeup of scalpel

I have three separate sale lists of steam and early diesel era HO scale freight cars that are for sale - Accurail, Kadee and Assorted. To receive the list or lists you want send an e-mail to me at: mg

I decided to build and detail some of the plastic boxcar kits I have left in my kit stash. The first two completed cars are CP 254714 and A&WP 37646. CP 254714 is an Intermountain Postwar AAR boxcar k

Hello, For a while now I have been experiencing loss of photographs appearing in digests. A comment has been made that only two photographs per message make it into the digest Is it possible to have t

Photo: Photo: NYC&HR Boxcar 100145 A photo from the National Archives of Canada: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/CollectionSearch/Pages/record.aspx?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=4427342 This photo can be enlar

Dear group In 1917 the B&O ordered a batch of steel underframe freight reefers. Plans were published in the "Railway Age" trade magazine. The article stated that the underframe was supplied by Ralston

Taking this conversation a little more broadly, is there a good resource that breaks down the single sheathed MILW boxcar fleet - with spotting information? Rob On Nov 6, 2020, at 6:32 AM, Donald B. V

I was looking at the Milwaukee freight car color book and was curious about the ends on the MILW 15600-16999 series box cars. I can't get a good read on the ends in the book photos other than they're

Photo: Lehigh Valley Gondola 32043 A photo from the National Archives of Canada: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/CollectionSearch/Pages/record.aspx?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=4026585 This photo can be enlar

Grand Trunk Automobile Boxcar 591043 A photo from the National Archives of Canada: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/CollectionSearch/Pages/record.aspx?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=3529636 This photo can be enl

CN Express Reefer 10500 A photo from the National Archives of Canada: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/CollectionSearch/Pages/record.aspx?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=3356824 This photo can be enlarged quite a

Photo: EJ&E Gondola 33327 A photo from the National Archives of Canada: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/CollectionSearch/Pages/record.aspx?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=4494183 This photo can be enlarged quite

Photo: Missouri Pacific Gondola 22212 A photo from the National Archives of Canada: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/CollectionSearch/Pages/record.aspx?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=3933068 This photo can be en

The attached photo is in the current issue of a historical society publication from my home area in northeastern PA. (Scan courtesy of the editor.) The caption states "Sam Nevin in Columbia Township,

CN Boxcar 483574 A photo from the National Archives of Canada: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/CollectionSearch/Pages/record.aspx?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=4453759 This photo can be enlarged quite a bit. C

Photo: Lehigh Valley Gondola 32402 A photo from the National Archives of Canada: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/CollectionSearch/Pages/record.aspx?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=4026586 This photo can be enlar

Photo: B &O Gondola 262249 A photo from the National Archives of Canada: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/CollectionSearch/Pages/record.aspx?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=4026584 This photo can be enlarged quit

After sitting on my workbench for a couple of months painted and decaled while I worked on structures and scenery, I finally weathered and added the final details on B&O 262529, an O-59A gondola build

Here is a color scan of a slide I bought off of EBAY of the FGEX aluminum reefer 40000. No photographer name on the mount. Certainly would be an interesting Resin kit (hint hint). Scott McDonald

Photo: N&W Livestock Car 29000 (Undated) A photo from the Virginia Tech University Libraries: https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/full/NS2777.jpeg Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA