Bob Chaparro wrote: Obviously not a very good "class portrait" but a fine modeler's view with a number of details well shown. I like the missing board. Maybe I will try modeling that. Tony Thompson to

Photos: North American Cyanamid Tanks Cars Photos from the Niagara Falls Public Library: NCLX 516 (Undated) http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/data/2/0/94620-511699.jpg NCLX 612 (1955) http://www.nflib

The following files have been uploaded to the Files area of the main@RealSTMFC.groups.io group. /Lowering Intermountain Truck Bolsters.doc By: Richard Remiarz Description: Lowering bolsters on Intermo

Photos: Tank Cars - American Cyanamid Co. (Undated) Photos from the Niagara Falls Public Library: http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/data/1/9/94619-511697.jpg http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/data/4/0

The recent discussions of painting and weathering reminded me of this video. Lots of freight cars but it is unusual in the number of overhead shots. Makes me think I don’t have enough galvanized roofs

CYX Hopper Car 134 - American Cyanamid A photo from the National Railroad Museum: https://fh-sites.imgix.net/sites/2564/2017/10/23193751/american-cyanamid-no-cyx-134.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1000&

Looks good Steve! My daughter says to re-use and re-purpose, not just re-cycle! I figured those Walthers cars fit the bill. :-) -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

F/S: HO scale ready-to-run freight cars, late-steam/early diesel era, to receive list send an e-mail to me at: mguill1224 at aol dot com Offered by Hugh T Guillaume.

Is anyone working on rosters of Frisco freight & MOW cars? The Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive in September received some material transferred from St. Paul and this includes ledgers from the Frisc

Hi- I am reminded often that we can search for previous STMFC,io posts on subjects of our interest. Tonight I tried to find a search engine on the STMFC.io home page. I could not find one. I admit to

I just finished working on a Sunshine NC&StL 36' rebuilt boxcar. When decaling the yellow stripes, the Sunshine decals fell apart. I decided to order the K4 decals for the 40' NC&StL boxcar to try to

Hi Gents, Looking for help please with GN box cars. I have this Intermountain model that is a 10-foot IH, post-1948 (diagonal r/b), 12-panel car. Ends are 3-4 Improved Dreadnaught. Series on the model

Photo: NP Automobile Boxcar 6181 (1934) A photo from the Denver Public Library: https://digital.denverlibrary.org/digital/collection/p15330coll22/id/57922/rec/104 Click on the arrows in the upper righ

Photos: "New Roof" Stencil (1945-1946) Photos from the Denver Public Library: https://digital.denverlibrary.org/digital/collection/p15330coll22/id/47332/rec/35 https://digital.denverlibrary.org/digita

Hi Andy, Good question – and probably one that other people also have. Step 1. Go to the groups.io page for RealSTMFC. It is at https://realstmfc.groups.io/g/main/topics . Step 2. Make sure you’re log

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Lester Breuer wrote: Nice job, Lester, and nicely described as to the various steps in "correcting" the InterMountain foobie. They have released a single-herald R-40-23 a couple of times, and I guess

My posts on lowering Intermountain boxcars generated a number comments. Jim Brewer was kind enough to combine all of the emails into one document so that it could be posted in the files section. I mad

Union Pacific Armour Yellow Paint Courtesy of Dave Husman, this is a link to a monograph of Union Pacific Armour Yellow Paint on the UtahRails.net website: https://utahrails.net/up/armour-yellow.php B

Photo: ATSF Auto/Furniture Boxcar 65514 Fe-R (1934) A photo from the Denver Public Library: https://digital.denverlibrary.org/digital/collection/p15330coll22/id/55062/rec/60 Click on the arrows in the