As I thought for quite a while, Guy, but I’ve come around to embracing the harder-to-say “latitudinal” running board. As you say it means width, and the latitudinal boards run across the WIDTH of the

https://digital.hagley.org/1986268_0330 Interesting door arrangement; Door and a Half, with right hand the short one? I think these guys may be carrying refractory for a re-line, not dismantling. Elde

Sharp eyes, Eric! I’d love to know how and who served that plant. This is not the way they usually work. That mix of cars on the floor is highly unusual. Powdered dolomite was a very specific load, an

Resin Car Works has reissued the Illinois Central hopper kit. Details have been posted on the RCW blog. http://blog.resincarworks.com/kit-reissue/ Eric Hansmann RCW web guy

Guys; The GS, and G22 were sometimes used for hot pigs, slabs, and later, coil, that the earlier gons like GR/GRA couldn’t handle without torching the car, so those classes with steel sides and floor

I knew this was out there: https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A201203.1912.4138/viewer with safety chains intact, diagonal end grabs, and original brake staff location. Elden Gatw

https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A201203.1916.6133/viewer Elden Gatwood

http://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2016/03/carrying-automobiles-in-boxcars.html reposted from s-scale@groups.io courtesy of rich gajnak ;-) mel perry

Ken; I wondered the same thing. Ashes don’t weigh out, even when mounded, but they have a nasty tendency to blow all over the place, so this may be their attempt to not have ashes all over the ROW. As

Group; This is the BM car in question, as the F&C kit. It is a really different, fun build. And this beast. Not everyone knows, the FD2 “Queen Mary” was one of the biggest flat cars (depressed center)

Nice job, Daniel! Do you have any more info on these cars? Elden Gatwood

Thought I'd post an updated photo of my kitbash of one of the Ann Arbor 73750 series boxcars. It uses the 4300 series Accurail boxcar, with modified door rollers, top plate, and strap bracing on the e

Anyone have a prototype photo (or reference to one) of these cars as they would have looked in the 1930s? The Westerfield kit (their no. 11251) has a couple of builders photos, but would like to see a

I have my list of the 4 best items to have blessed model freight car building as follows, in no particular order: 1) Evergreen styrene strips 2) Dial calipers 3) Resins, such as polyurethane 4) RPM me

Group; Then there are the well cars with no floor, like the FN. Here is Jack Consoli’s fabulous rendition (featured in TKM) in which the load is both suspended and distributed to side sills and ends,

Tony; I greatly appreciate the input! Any input you can provide is ALWAYS appreciated. Menagerie is right. I was looking back at some of the data I collected, and it was indeed a dog’s breakfast of ca

Hello folks- 1936 to 1940 were the years that large numbers of square corner Drednaught end equipped '37 AAR box cars were built. As can be seen in the list below of these square corner end cars, ther

I had a buy signal from my stock consultant for PFE. Pacific Fruit Express???!!! Turned out to be Pfizer. Dale

Hi Hugh, Please send me the list. Thanks Chuck Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 2:03 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: [RealSTMFC] F/S: 80+ HO locomotives F/S: 80+ new HO locomotives, all are

This photo, taken in Longmont, Colorado, has an EJ&E twin hopper in the background, adding more to the mentions of roaming hoppers: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Great-Western-Sugar-Co-Steam-Engine-0-4-0-T