I was grateful when Rapido sent replacement body shells to replace the greenish shade on the B&O cars; that was a classy move on their part. However, it arrived after I had already stripped the paint

Hello I have just finished this Sunshine RR43 I used Railmatch black for the black and Trucolor Maine Central yellow for the orange. I had to use Microscale decals as the Sunshine ones were badly crea

Here’s a couple shots of the Fe-22. Still need to add the cut levers and air hoses. -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.

For sale - one Sunshine Kit 24.8 G.A.R.X. 3800 Series Duryea Meat Reefer. $50 plus $7 shipping by First Class Mail. Please contact me at rgortowski@... PayPal friends and family or check. Thanks, Rich

Bob, All this has been about a crane mounted on a concrete pedestal. The crane itself is a pillar crane. They can be mounted (obviously) on a pedestal. But they can also be mounted on freight cars, or

I will be attending the Collinsville RPM meet July 28 and 29 and will be giving a presentation. I am wondering if there is someone who is also planning to attend from Georgia or Florida who could give

Actually, that's a "Pillar crane." The original poster was seeing a pillar crane mounted on a pedestal. Picky, picky, picky, aside, the attached image shows a very small pillar crane that surfaced in

Came across this in a ‘Missouri Pacific’ eBay search. He has many original photos of various railroads listed. Too early for my time period. Just passing along…. -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.

I’m decaling the RCW Fe-22 and have a question about the train slogans used by the Santa Fe. I’d initially was going to use the map from Microscale 87-215 but it completely dissolved when I put it in

This kit sold. Thank you for the interest.

The HO scale B&O Wheeling Freight Terminal layout takes a few more steps towards operation. My latest blog post details the wiring connections. http://designbuildop.hansmanns.org/2023/05/09/setting-up

For sale - one Sunshine Kit 24.15 - Wilson Meat Reefer - Intermediate Wilson Logo. $50 plus $7 shipping by First Class Mail. Please contact me at rgortowski@... PayPal friends and family or check. Tha

Noticed the boom projecting out from behind a shed. So finally decided to check it out. Probably bordered the now dramatically reduced former Southern Railway yard in Picayune, Ms. Home to the Pearl R

Thanks! Brian Ehni (Sent from my iPhone) Begin forwarded message: From: pardiew001 <pardiew001@...> Date: May 8, 2023 at 12:37:01 PM CDT To: bpehni@... Subject: Private: Re: Re: [RealSTMFC] Rock Islan

My planned switching layout only has room for dozens of cars, I want to maximize variety while also having mostly common cars. Adding something with a Viking roof would be good. Suggestions for 10' or

I have begun building a Westerfield B-2 Conversion Rock Island stock car. I am trying to match up underbody parts and placement and find the photos confusing. At least two of the photos are not of thi

How were rail bulk shipments of peanuts handled from the farm to processors such as peanut butter manufacturing facilities in 1955? -- Allen Cain Modeling the Southern in 1955 in HO Scale

Friends, I have been working on several (cheap) gondola loads over the past few months (photos attached). One load that I have not been able to find is steam era (1950 in my case) photos of rebar load

Ted That sounds apocryphal -- I think they might have mentioned it to stockholders, for example. In some of the 1950's annual reports to stockholders the imbalance of cars OWNED vs cars ONLINE (almost

Is their interest for scans of Hutchins roof drawings of roofs applied to box and auto cars in the 1920's for railroads such as C&O, PRR, SP, IC, CN, etc? While cataloging Northern Pacific mechanical