What decal solution should I use to preserve and apply to old decals and I do mean OLD. I just acquired White's THE GREAT YELLOW FLEET and I faintly recall that this books has some questionable assump

Being a Rutland modeler I have a number of these box car and auto car kits and have some questions about two that turn out to be NYC cars, NOT Rutland versions. For those wo do not know the difference

Lever Brake Handles Were lever brake handles ever banned or outlawed, or did they just fall out of favor? Thanks. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Photo: FW&D Single Sheathed Boxcars A photo from the SMU Libraries: Boxcar 6001 (Bad decal job on the car number) (1958) https://digitalcollections.smu.edu/digital/collection/rwy/id/1403/rec/16 Boxcar

Richard Stoving is very much alive and I hope to confirm this on the NYCSHS conference call tomorrow. We are more than pleased to have his knowledge and humor. Frank Bongiovanni

This latest offered pair of WP box car castings has been sold. Thanks STMFC! -Andy Carlson Ojai CA On Friday, October 9, 2020, 4:13:08 PM PDT, Andy Carlson <midcentury@...> wrote: Last month I made th

Photo: TCWX Tank Car 115 (1931) Photo from the Science History Institute: https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/8w32r666s/viewer/cn69m512g Click and scroll to enlarge. Also Reading boxcar 100053. T

Fenton; I had a set of Taylor trucks in my truck box for a long time before giving them to a devout RDG modeler who kept begging me. I didn’t think the quality of them was very good, but I know someon

Fenton Wells asked: "I wish Tahoe made Taylor trucks. Does anybody?" Eastern Car Works did in styrene; Bethlehem Car Works did both coil spring (#1217) and leaf spring (#1218) versions in white metal.

Photo: California Dispatch Line Tank Cars At Winery (Circa 1915) A photo from the Sonoma County Library: https://digital.sonomalibrary.org/Documents/Detail/loading-tank-cars-at-petaluma-california-pla

Looking for Funaro & Camarlengo 6660 NYC steel gondola. Hugh T Guillaume mguill1224 at aol dot com

Photo: San Francisco & North Pacific Railroad Boxcars (Circa 1900) A photo from the Sonoma County Library: https://digital.sonomalibrary.org/Documents/Detail/san-francisco-and-north-pacific-rail-cars-

These factory painted brass W&R Enterprises Northern Pacific Reefers pop up now and then. Was there ever such a orange paint scheme in place of the usual yellowish sides? Thx, ------------------- RJ D

Photo: More TCWX Tank Cars: (1931) Photo from the Science History Institute: https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/nk322f14s/viewer/ff365613n Click and scroll to enlarge. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Advertisement: Plastic Journal Box Lid (Circa 1942) Material from the Science History Institute: https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/m039k614p Click and scroll to enlarge. A freight car detail th

Photo: Big Four Boxcar (1906) A photo from the Historic Pittsburgh website: https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt%3A8223.336.RR/viewer Scroll on the photo to enlarge it. PRR Boxcar 1380

Photo: PRR Boxcar 559589 (Undated) A photo from the Historic Pittsburgh website: https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt%3AMSP210.B014.I05/viewer Ignore the flat car. Scroll on the photo

I’d add the Mesta Machine Low Shear. They rode on freight cars, after all J What a great 3-d-printed product (hint, hint). Elden Gatwood

Now that Tangent has released the plain black GATX version of the Type 17, the possibility of building a credible fleet of many types of GA tank cars is near to realization. Does anyone have a fleet b

I'm looking for a cross-section of ATSF FT-I and FT-J flat cars to see how the 4 fish-belly sills were spaced. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR