Here is a photo from early 1942. In the background is a Santa Fe ice car (formerly in SFRD service) with ventilator hoods. The original photo is from the Library of Congress. Bob Chaparro Moderator Ra

I grew up in Buffalo and was aware of their operations in Ebenezer NY. During some recent research on Greenville Steel Car, it became apparent that Morrison used GSC to rebuild various batches of cars

Hi all, purchased this smart looking IC 50039 reefer for my reefer collection. Checked the group's archives and could find two paint suggestions: - green ends, silver roof (Hendrickson) - black ends b

Mask Island Decals Inc.is pleased to announce a new decal added to our line up. We now offer the EJ&E decal designed for the green forty footer. This is the systems map scheme. You may view this set o

And here are some photos I took of retired SFRD reefers in Hemet. All of these are still around when I last recently looked. Bob Chaparro Moderator Railroad Citrus Industry Modeling Group https://grou

Bill; That is a really, really nice model. Glad to see someone else has interest in their cars! Elden Gatwood

Following up on the previous thread, I have a W&R brass model of this car, the flush roof 40' double door box. I saw recently that there are a few custom painted versions on eBay, all painted NP. I th

I found the W&R flier with Bill McKeown’s comments on the color for NP’s wood refers. Gary Lasko covered all of the points in his recent post. Above are tow of W&R’s offerings of these cars. As I have

As with Gene Diemling’s recent post on revisiting older models I find that I Am spending a fair amount of time upgrading some of my earlier models. Early on I built models following the manufacturer’s

this would be the builder’s photo of the side view. Not sure when the buzz saw came into practice but after 1919 when these were built. norm

All- Barb and I are still stunned by the news of Ron’s passing on Wednesday morning. I was just up in Illinois for the recent Burlington Route Historical Society Meet and I enjoyed spending the entire

Surprised no one has mentioned it, but it's been reported that Ron Sebastian (Des Plaines Hobbies) died earlier today (Wednesday). No other details. Tom Madden

Recently, I have been upgrading older model. One such project is this 1/4” scale plastic model kit offered by San Juan Car Company. I added some weathering using Vallejo acrylic paints. Gene Deimling

I have a collection of some HO resin and plastic freight car kits along with new and like new tools for sale from an estate. All Quality items Please email me off list at gtws00 at yahoo.com for a lis

A Great Northern Ry. safety film I have not seen before. Lots of close up shots of roofs and hand brakes. At about 5:00 the crew does a drop. Why Risk Your Life? Dennis Storzek

Hi List Members, A little while back we were discussing SRFD reefers with ventilator hoods - I think these were called Bohn ventilators. There is a 1938 image showing a partial view of a car so equipp

Folks, The Summer issue (#109) of The Keystone Modeler is now available on the PRRT&HS web site at: http://www.prrths.com/newprr_files/newPRRKeystoneModeler.htm Regards, Bruce Bruce Smith, Assistant w

Hello All, I have a couple extra accurail double and single sheath wood boxcars and was wondering if anyone has some good kitbashes to work with these cars. I am modeling 1949 in the northeast. Thanks

Folks; Greg is right, the PRR X26 rebuilds got the later "no-intermediate-rib" Hutchins roof, during the mid-thirties rebuilds. People assume that when rebuilt, they got all new equipment: roof, doors

Archer rivets and their clones have changed the way many of us approach kitbashing and scratchbuilding. But while looking at some prototype photos for current projects I noticed that what I really nee