Hog Wash!!! Photo from Classic Trains website: https://www.trains.com/ctr/photos-videos/photo-of-the-day/watering-hogs-on-the-up/ Caption: “A triple-headed shower wets down the hogs riding in Union Pa

Hi List Members, About a year back, I wanted to brush paint a short section of track (ties and rail both) on my layout a rail brown color. So I puchased one bottle each of Tru-Color TCP-822 FLAT RAILR

Article: Weathering A Boxcar Hundreds of freight car weathering articles have been published so this is certainly not a new topic. This one from the on-line July 2021 Model Railroad Hobbyist caught my

I checked the online photo archives, and I can’t find a B end view showing the air pipe and hose bracket or a right side view showing the relief valve rod and air reservoir. According to the informati

Jerry Hamsmith has shared photos and details of four modelers building the same Resin Car Works Illinois Central boxcar kit in the latest RCW blog post. http://blog.resincarworks.com/illinois-central-

Rebuilding Boxcars At Altoona Ray Breyer commented: “The steel car industry was 'born" in France in the 1860s. In the United States, the first commercial, mass produced steel cars were from the Presse

Group; No one on the PRRT&HS Modeling Committee worked with Walthers on these projects, as far as I can determine. Given the unique features of the X29B, we will just have to see the actual products.

Way back in 2005 the Sunshine mini-kit for Naperville was for a MP 1942 era built boxcar. That was my first naperville and I started the kit around 2007 but never finished it. It's been sitting on the

Photo: MILW Flat Car With Bridge Girder Photo from the Milwaukee Public Library: https://content.mpl.org/digital/collection/HstoricPho/id/3569/rec/74 Use arrows and scroll on photo to enlarge it. Desc

Tony's PFE book tells us that in the 1950s PFE added sidesill reinforcements to R-40-23, R-40-20, and other steel reefers. I would like to know the dimensions of those reinforcements, particularly the

To our Great Northern experts here I was wondering if you have any background or history on this car featured in the slide? It is an interesting looking car. It appears to have the same roof as N&W ca

Kalmbach’s Steam’s Lost Empire 2 at page 93 has a David Morgan overhead picture of a Ps-4 leaving Lynchberg, VA with the first car behind it a Southern boxcar 3218 that appears to have a vent square t

Just applied my first K4 decals on an Erie box car. My observation is they were thin, but the printing is not as crisp as others on the market. Better than F&C by a ways tho... I has a set for a Soo L

Photo: FGEX 10883 (Circa 1948-1952) Photo from the Milwaukee Public Library: https://content.mpl.org/digital/collection/swch/id/134/rec/133 Use arrows and scroll on photo to enlarge it. What caught my

Photo: Morrell Mechanical Meat Reefers (1954) Photo from Classic Trains website: https://www.trains.com/ctr/photos-videos/photo-of-the-day/morrell-meat-reefers/ Caption: “Meatpacking firm John Morrell

Photo: A Load Of Trolley Buses (1942) Photo from the Milwaukee Public Library: https://content.mpl.org/digital/collection/HstoricPho/id/13695/rec/83 Use arrows and scroll on photo to enlarge it. Descr

Mask Island Decals Inc. pleased to announce 1 new decal steam era 1947 build. Cotton Belt. 40’ combo door as delivered. Please visit my web site at maskislanddecals.com. Thank You Mask Island Decals I

Photo: NYC Gondola 329127 (1920) Photo from the Milwaukee Public Library: https://content.mpl.org/digital/collection/HstoricPho/id/4833/rec/30 Use arrows and scroll on photo to enlarge it. Drop bottom

Photo: Unidentified Gondola (1917) Photo from the Milwaukee Public Library: https://content.mpl.org/digital/collection/HstoricPho/id/13031/rec/21 Use arrows and scroll on photo to enlarge it. Descript

Photo: Great Northern Single Sheathed Boxcar (Undated) Photo from the Milwaukee Public Library: https://content.mpl.org/digital/collection/MilwWaterwa/id/1026/rec/84 Use arrows and scroll on photo to