All- Does anyone have any experience with slide and negative scanners? My all-in-one copiers can do a decent job of digitizing photo prints but, even though a couple of them have slide processing capa

Group, I was looking at Ray Breyer's discussion of the Accurail 1800 series boxcar and kitbash posiblities for the D&H 36' DS boxcar. I would like to find more information on the "indestructible end"

Hi there - Needing some help with ORERs around 1946 for this model. Working on a kit and started to work with the decals. I had three cars in various stages and had put the decals in a safe place - bu

Photo: Wabash Boxcar 7702 (1957) A photo from the Denver Public Library: https://digital.denverlibrary.org/digital/collection/p15330coll22/id/67226/rec/34 Click on the arrows in the upper right hand c

Bought too many of the wrongs kinds of cars when I began my own, personal "Reefer Madness." Five kits available: Kit 1224 SOO Car# 50083 1201 URTX/Milwaukee 87018 1218 URTX/Milwaukee 87292 1319 Wiscon

Photo: WFEX Reefer 67899(1951) A photo from the Denver Public Library: https://digital.denverlibrary.org/digital/collection/p15330coll22/id/55050/rec/124 Click on the arrows in the upper right hand co

Hi Craig, Attaching a couple of photos of the first version of the Hutchin ends for the Accurail kitbash. Here are the issues I see: - printed flat, the overall surface is good until one looks at the

Elden, I have a copy in hand as I type. In the middle 1960s, SP issued a series of "Freight Car Specification Sheets" for all car types, 25 in all, and over time some of the sheets received supplement

Group; I thought maybe one or two of you would be interested in this murky subject: There are at least several kinds of well cars, interestingly not separated in the AAR classification, which just lum

Charlie, I purchased an Epson V800 and am very pleased with it for transparencies as it will scan large format negatives as well as slides. It connects via USB and is Twain compliant for importing dir

Hi, Ben Dibble is a friend of mine, not a denizen of this list. But he’s quite willing to share his collection of photos of the subject cars. You can contact Ben directly if you want. His email in inc

Group; How about this combo of well car AND depressed center flat? It used a GSC casting to combine load-bearing well floor with depressed well, to boot. Load distributed on end decks and side sills.

Photo: CGTX 8654 Tallow Tank Car A partial photo of this tank car courtesy of the Old Time Trains website: http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/cpr_rolling/tallow_tank.jpg This was taken in Au

Then there are these guys. I DARE you to build one. (The F&C kit is a great start). Prepare for some interesting fabrications! PRR took a handful of regular F25, and took the floor out and replaced it

Sad hobby news has reached my computer. Our favorite extreme modeler and Dodger fan, Bill Welch, passed away Sunday afternoon, November 15th, 2020. This was reported by his niece on his Facebook timel

Tom; They were 70-ton cars, believe it or not. Someone is going to weigh in on what class battleship that turret faceplate is destined for. I noted how the load is accommodated by distribution to the

Group; One of the interesting engineering problems in those days was how to distribute a load across the car without destroying the car. For well cars with floors that were load-bearing, it generally

I’d met Bill at one of the RPM meets in Collinsville, Illinois and we both ‘hit it off’. Bill invited me to a small group session of ‘resin builders’ later that day. I was thinking how could I keep Bi

Not a great photo, but it’s what I’ve got. Schuyler

Friends, By chance I ran across the TRAINS issue with the photograph showing M3 tanks that I spoke of earlier this week. Sadly, my memory was defective, but in my defense, I hadn't seen that picture f