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

Would Allan Seebach of Tappan NY, please contact me offlist. Or if anyone knows him , please forward this to him Thanks -- Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com

I am guilty of not checking my emails before sending. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

There has been some disscusion on weathering wood on single sheathed box cars and I felt that quite a few folks were not too knowing of the effect of wood to the weathering differences. This is what i

Hey everyone, I looked at photos of various PFE reefers from the mid 1930s and onward which contain these boxes with lettering in them. What information is put into these boxes and why do they change