Hi Bob and List Members, Upon inspection of the end reporting marks, I think this car number is actually 13397, not 15337 Thanks for the great images Bob! Claus Schlund

Photo: Rock Island Boxcar With A Load Of Radios A 1930 photo from the Musser Public Library: http://www.umvphotoarchive.org/digital/collection/muspl/id/1332/rec/273 Scroll on the photo to enlarge it.

Photo: Livestock Cars With Roof Hatches A 1910 photo from the Wisconsin Historical Society: https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM24356 The photo shows a string of livestock cars with roof

Nice car, Bob! Elden Gatwood

Photo: Norfolk Southern & Seaboard Gondolas A 1926 photo from the Duke University Archives: https://repository.duke.edu/dc/dukeconstruction/19260401EC0083 Scroll on the photo to enlarge it. Bob Chapar

Photo: Southern Gondolas 119079, 316116 & 119156 1929 and 1930 photos from the Duke University Archives: https://repository.duke.edu/dc/dukeconstruction/19300503WC0344 https://repository.duke.edu/dc/d

Photos: Norfolk Southern Boxcar 20178 Two 1926 photos from the Duke University Archives: https://repository.duke.edu/dc/dukeconstruction/19260615EC0123 https://repository.duke.edu/dc/dukeconstruction/

Photo: NC&St.L Boxcar 15337 A 1926 photo from the Duke University Archives: https://repository.duke.edu/dc/dukeconstruction/19260301EC0066 Scroll on the photo to enlarge it. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Photo: D&H Gondola 37595 A 1926 photo from the Duke University Archives: https://repository.duke.edu/dc/dukeconstruction/19260601EC0118 Scroll on the photo to enlarge it. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Photo: Clinchfield Boxcar 8153 A 1930 photo from the Duke University Archives: https://repository.duke.edu/dc/dukeconstruction/19300503WC0346 Scroll on the photo to enlarge it. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Photo: NYC Boxcar 227130 & Buster Keaton A still photo from the movie "Go West" courtesy of the SilentLocations website: https://silentlocations.com/2020/07/04/buster-keaton-ghosts-of-go-west/#jp-caro

Evidently, there is a new volume of Railway Prototype Cyclopedia coming this fall. I'm surprised I didn't see this mentioned here. Maybe I missed it? Paul Krueger Seattle, WA ========== Volume 35 is a

Claus; We were holding a side discussion on this, and absolutely believe trucks were taken as war booty for use in the U.S. post-WW1. Cheap way of obtaining HD trucks! Elden Gatwood

A fun experiment would be to put the wheelset in a drill chuck and get it rotating, and then drop a tiny drop of thin paint exactly in the center - just to see if it replicates this look. :-) -- Tim O

Photo: Boiler On NYC Flatcar A circa 1920 Shorpy photo from the National Photo Company Collection: https://www.shorpy.com/node/23403 This photo can be enlarged quite a bit. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

I'm having trouble finding a pin vise that holds smaller (#80 and the higher 70's) drill bit securely. I've tried & thrown out a few, and always go back to my ancient General swivel-headed one (simila

Nice job, Steve. Jim Hunter

Photo: PRR Boxcar 52592 A 1933 photo from the Hoboken Historical Museum: https://hoboken.pastperfectonline.com/photo/DCC778E9-2C39-486E-9A83-983218062208 Click on the photo to enlarge it. Good view of

Here is the Starrett Catalog page... with all their pin vise sizes and model numbers. One document online shows the 166A design dates from at least 1938... No wonder we find them in our fathers' / gra

My dealer just informed me that the Kadee C&O PS-1 boxcar painted for as delivered For Progress scheme in 1952 has been released. This has been a moving target in the Kadee production schedule but goo