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

I have completed the build of a National Scale Car mini-kit for Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha (CMO) steel boxcar 37640 with resin ends and unique Duryea underframe you install on a plastic ca

If you know which issue of RMJ, MRding, or ProtoModeler you want to download, type in http://magazine.trainlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/abc_yyyymm.pdf where abc = rmj = Railmodel Journal mrr =

Hi List Members, I too have has much trouble accessing the TRAINLIFE site. One work-around that I have found, that appears to work as of this current moment, is to build a URL that is based around the

Hi Al- Based on your mentioning of IC 50'ers, I went to Fallen Flag and found a 1968 shot of IC 34730, a 4 + 5 panel double door SS car. This car had 5-5-7 Murphy corrugated ends, a lower side sill fi

It's be nice to know the make up of this train (attached) running on the branch l model. It's obvious the first car is an X31. I've been told the second is a D&H Seley hopper. I have a Bowser X31 and

Group: Can someone provide me the contact information for the PUBLISHER of Railway Prototype Cyclopedia No. 35? TIA, Gary Bechdol Stone Mountain, GA

I picked up a Southbound Modelworks Seaboard low side gon recently, former Wrighttrak I believe. There are a few pics in the instructions but they are small. Looking for more information on the G10 pr