Photo: GATX Tank Car 76845 (1956) A photo from the University of Wyoming: http://digitalcollections.uwyo.edu/luna/servlet/detail/uwydbuwy~124~124~3172559~307454:Union-Pacific-4014-engine?qvq=q:railroa

Just announced on a Facebook Live, newsletter and website will show it sometime tomorrow. - 3 different doors - Ann Arbor, B&O, C&O, CNJ, C&NW, D&H, MEC, MILW, N&W, NYC, Pennsy, Reading, SP, + 1 more

Livestock Articles & Photos From The Streamliner Magazine Here is a list of livestock articles and photos from the Union Pacific Historical Society's Streamliner Magazine, Vol. 1 no. 1 through vol. 34

I've been selling freight cars on eBay for a couple years with no issues. When listing a freight car a couple weeks ago I had to re-sign up through Google. I used to get an email saying the car sold w

I've been progressing on several HO scale hopper models. These are all in the decal application phase. Details are in the latest DesignBuildOp blog post. http://designbuildop.hansmanns.org/2021/06/18/

Friends, With three Tichy USRA SS boxcar kits in my to-do pile (really more of a closet), I did a little digging to find which roads still rostered these cars in more-or-less original condition circa

Kerite Wire Load On T&P Flat Car An article from Randy Hammill‘s Layout Blog: https://blog.newbritainstation.com/2021/03/kerite-wire-load-on-t-flat-car.html?m=1 The Kerite Company made insulated wire.

Hello- I am finishing up the reworked patterns for my HO Western Pacific (company rebuilt from box car in 1937) 40' Stock car. I need at least one good image showing the reporting marks on the car bod

Some know that I am moving to O scale. Please contact me off list at bnonut@... and I will send it to you. Mark Morgan

Update: Thanks to Jim Gates eagle eyes, I removed the PRR 83589 X25 series I misread as X26 and updated the totals in the text and table. The updated info is in the Blog at the location below. 22201 S

Hi Folks, Ironically, someone asked me OFFLIST yesterday if it was okay to discuss eBay policies on RealSTMFC. I told him NO, and he has kindly refrained. Now I see that others are bringing up eBay. S

I would like to find one of the following cars in order to recreate the attached photo. https://www.intermountain-railway.com/ho/html/45808.htm Owatonna Tool Company was owned by my mother’s side of t

Article: The Story of Milk Transportation By Rail An article by James Kindraka from the January-February issue of the Dispatch, a publication of the National Association of S Gaugers: https://www.yump

Rolling The Freight (1947) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sstFcKqjF2s&t=1180s A promotional film produced by the Chicago & North Western Railroad depicting the movement of freight trains. The film co

For the X26C and the X29B/X29D, in the late 50s timeframe, what would the most common lettering scheme be? I know what they were built with. As 10 to 14 year old cars, were many of them repainted alre

Ron; From my research, it looks to me that a majority of X26C and X29B were repainted into Shadow Key by the late fifties, beginning with the introduction of that scheme in 1954. A few cars lingered o

With the pending release of the Rapido SS USRA car, I did a little homework with my October 1944 ORER. I posted a list of the 2305 cars listed there in the following blog post: The Rapido Single Sheat

Looking at the benders for photo etched parts here: http://umm-usa.com/onlinestore/index.php?cPath=21_225 I was wondering if anyone had thoughts/preferences/comments on the"hinged" types (MN004/014, o

I have sold all of these resin cars. Thanks, -Andy Carlson Ojai CA Hello everyone- I recently restored some patterns I made for the Great Northern's rebuilt-from-boxcars 40' stock cars. The 55200-5545

Movie: Fruit Express (1940s) https://archive.org/details/84574TheNewsMagazineFruitExpressVwr Only fair quality. The railroad action stops at about 4:40, however there are some scenes of tank cars with