I jinxed myself... Just after I sent the message below, I started reaming the trucks for the 2nd car and SNAP - the truck sideframe snapped in half! %$#@# So, in spite of Brian's comments about what a

Photo: UP/OSL Livestock Car 37197 (1943 Jack Delano photo from the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsa.8d11997/ Taken in 1943 at Calumet City, Illinois. Class S-40-4 livesto

Photo: DL&W Hopper 73453 A photo from the National Parks Service Collection: https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/f94d5e4f-ea66-4748-80cb-002b148ef673 Scroll on the photo to enlarge it. This photo wi

Perry Squier has finished prepping ten Shawmut boxcars for the paint shop. He shares details and techniques in the latest DesignBuildOp blog post. http://designbuildop.hansmanns.org/2021/01/11/shawmut

Douglas Harding wrote: “Many double deck stockcars had single doors on each side. These cars would have a “bull board” which was a 2x6 that was placed in brackets creating a barrier in the door openin

Folks, In the movie "Troop Train", StLB&M flat car 8376 is featured as part of a pre- or early WWII movement of troops with their equipment. A quick check of the 1943 ORER show that there are 50 cars

Photo: ATSF Boxcar 49760 Fe-31 A photo from the Denver Public Library for a car right at the tail end of this group's era: https://digital.denverlibrary.org/digital/collection/p15330coll22/id/55061/re

I’m trying to find a drawing of the side number panels that the MP, KO&G, ATSF, DRGW used on their FT thru F-7 diesels. Web search has lots of GA drawings but none I’ve found have the illuminated pane

Corrugated Fiberboard is Approved for Railway Transportation An article from the Fruit Growers Supply Company blog. Fruit Growers Supply is a Sunkist Company. It would take until the mid-1950s for cor

Dear Ted, So sorry for the continued complaints from the terminally disgruntled. I think I can speak for most Hindsight 20/20 members in saying that what you and the other moderators and clinicians ar

Does someone have the agenda for the day? I don’t have the zoom info, must have missed the announcement. Schuyler

Who needs an update on new Resin car Works kit releases? http://blog.resincarworks.com/2021-rcw-update/ Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

Thanks to George, Ben, Ralph, Jim, Gerry/Hunter and probably a couple others who shared the agenda for tomorrow’s Hindsight with me. Schuyler

Hi List Members, The kit at the link below is indicated as "Red Ball" and also as "Wabash Valley Lines" in the instruction sheet. Can anyone tell me, is there an actual prototype for this Red Ball kit

G'Day Gents, I started assembling a couple of Yarmouth Models Works NP resin boxcars, and in both cases, managed to rub ribs (cast to thin?) off the roofs with my thumb and fingers while gluing in the

Jerry Hamsmith shares details on an alternate AB brake arrangement for the Resin Car Works NYC steel gondola kit. It’s the latest post on the RCW blog. http://blog.resincarworks.com/nyc-50-foot-drop-b

Anyone know of a HO source for the T-section trucks? I know of the Kadee version, but those flimsy springs and operation are a non-starter (plus look just silly) The T-Section trucks look unique and a

Folks, Workbench Wednesday time! The workbench is a little crowded with Non-PRR cars right now! There are 5 Rapido cars, three GATC reefers and two NP boxcars, as well as the two Broadway Limited Impo

I've been carefully studying the Ed Hawkins/Ted Culotta tabulation covering almost 93,000 AAR boxcars built between 1936 and 1947. Having chosen long ago to model the time period from fall 1940 throug

Does anyone know what body style of the atlas 1932 ARA car I need for Missouri Pacific prototype? There used to be a description of the body styles on the atlas website but I can’t find it. Brian J. C