Photo: Borden's Tank/Reefer BFIX 518 (Undated) Photo courtesy of the Fine Art America website: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/bordens-milk-refrigerator-car-underwood-archives.html?product=greetin

I learned Rob Manley, master of Pan Pastel’s, died on Monday. I understand he had a heart attack. Here is his obituary. https://www.schroederlauer.com/obituary/robert-rob-manley?fbclid=IwAR24csyKzx-SV

Photos: Bangor & Aroostook Flat Car 71710 With Army Tanks (Undated) Photos from the National Archives of Canada: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/CollectionSearch/Pages/record.aspx?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber

Truly sad news. He’ll be missed for sure. Thanks! Brian Ehni (Sent from my iPhone)

Suggestions? - Livestock Cars & Operations Books I'm looking for books on livestock cars and operations. So far, my very short list includes: Live Stock Operations: History, Equipment, Facilities & Mo

A photo with a lot of early freight cars: https://digital.denverlibrary.org/digital/collection/p15330coll21/id/9552 Enlarges enough to read many of the numbers. Jim Gates

Perry Squier shares his work on several new boxcars for his 1923 Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern layout in the latest DesignBuildOp blog post. http://designbuildop.hansmanns.org/2020/11/18/shawmut-boxca

I am very sorry to hear of Bill’s passing. He became a friend earlier this year due to his passionate interest in Fruit Growers Express, my former employer. I most recently heard from him on 11/9 and

Eric, So sorry to hear this. We have now lost 3 pillars of our fun in Florida each January. RIP Bill, Denny and Greg. Steve Hile

COMPLETE KIT OR JUST ROOF.

Fred; Unfortunately, not yet. I know a guy that has been working on this for 30+ years with the intention of doing a book(s), but he is overwhelmed with data. Every RR did their own version of how the

I have continued with my efforts building and detailing plastic freight car kits. NYC 165138 is a Branchline AAR Postwar boxcar kit. I remember when these kits first came out. The detailing was so goo

While I was sorting photos for the reweigh project I can across this small shot (2 3/4” by 4 1/2”) Art Johnson taken at Pensacola, Florida. Behind the Frisco VO-660 is from left to right a PRR, ATSF,

Guys; I ran across a short group of photos recently that were of a door which had come loose and got knocked off along an elevated ROW. The door flew off the elevated and crushed a car below. The owne

Thomas; I think (think, mind you) this is part of the “stand” part of a mill stand, and the “clock” is the gauge by which the mill stand operator determined the thickness of the slab (billet/bloom), a

Doug; I agree with Eric. The only things they would NOT usually haul were hot slabs and coils! Elden Gatwood

Photo: Cities Service Oil Tank Car 1002 (Undated) A photo from the National Archives of Canada: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/CollectionSearch/Pages/record.aspx?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=3603414 This pho

A couple HO scale gondolas have been moving through construction stages. Both went through the weathering factory in the last week. The models follow Nickel Plate Road wood gondolas built in the early

Bill, Sorry, but you’ve “triggered” me. Please save us from the pseudo-science babble of people like your optometrist friend. Bottom line, the emission and absorption wavelengths of refracted and refl

Photo: Reading Well Hole Flat Car 99009 (Undated) A photo from the National Archives of Canada: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/CollectionSearch/Pages/record.aspx?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=3607476 This pho