Don; My experience with ACC is that it does go bad. I never had luck with the big bottles, even refrigerated. They went bad. I buy packs of the little tubes from big box stores, because they cycle thr

All; On this fine car is routing stenciling to Reading Co, Philmont, PA. Does anyone know the complete routing, and how this guy was used? I know Reading had the originator, but whose truck frames? Wh

A Bad Day For PRR Merchandise Boxcar 53312 A 1956 photo from the Temple University Libraries: https://digital.library.temple.edu/digital/collection/p15037coll3/id/67198/rec/6 This photo can be enlarge

A Bad Day For PRR Boxcar 566640 A 1950 photo from the Temple University Libraries: https://digital.library.temple.edu/digital/collection/p15037coll3/id/67175/rec/26 This photo can be enlarged quite a

Friends, I have attached another clutch of C&O maintenance-of-way cars to share, along with what I think is their original class information from Carl Shaver's FREIGHT CAR EQUIPMENT OF THE CHESAPEAKE

I have been assembling resin car kits for some 35 years now beginning with Dennis Storzek's Rutland box cars back when the material was a lot tougher than resin and Al Westerfield's kits when he was u

Photo: SP Automobile Boxcar 64210 With 1956 Chevrolets A photo from the Industrial History blog: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kwCD7J3lNEg/Xbco-QT9OAI/AAAAAAABiU4/rHSV7CtKy-0Kt0nx88Z8kAj1Czn5qeZeACLcBGAs

no see'em! Jim Hunter

Taking the idea of foreign road to an extreme, here's the last (yea!) of the C&BT upgrades from the stash -- a StLB&M double door boxcar. Yes, C&BT offered a DD boxcar carbody as one of their variatio

Photo: Norfolk & Western Livestock Car 27699 (Built 1913) A photo from the Columbus Metropolitan Library: https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/transport/id/2784/rec/126 T

Due to the response to the concept of Hindsight 20/20, we have added an additional 100 slots. This will be the only increase in number of attendees. If you do not see this message in time and all addi

Good morning from northern Illinois where the weather feels like New Orleans... I would very much appreciate if someone could share ACF builder photos of the LV auto cars in the subject line: Builder

There are some CGW train list sheets laying next to the computer. My wife is transcribing them to an excel sheet. I noticed empty PRR covered hopper 254288 headed from Randolph Minn. to Ingalton Ill.

I am just reposting Garth’s message from yesterday WITH images attached. Schuyler

For the third time in the last few weeks all the photos have been purged from the Emailed Photos folder, apparently because we exceeded the 1 GB storage limit. All images attached to posts since we mo

And, according to Tony Koester, the cars were often used for back-hauls of sand for the factory. I spent a few weeks in Marion, IN in the early 2000s rehab'ing a house for Habitat for Missionaries, an

Photo: CCC&StL Boxcar 44759 With Banner A circa 1931 photo from the Grand Rapids Public Museum: https://www.grpmcollections.org/Detail/objects/163583 This photo can be enlarged quite a bit. Tree Tangl

I have pretty much completed building a model of one of the SP's G50-15 GS gons using the Detail Associates kit. The G50-15 was the initial group built with the flat plate ends with two rib stiffeners

Photo: Fallbrook Railway Boxcar 1665 A photo from the New York Heritage Digital Collections: https://cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16694coll29/id/1935/rec/7 This photo can be enlarge

Claus; That is a different gon, and I am not sure whose. Note the end sill, grabs, and other details appear to be different. That jogged end grab and retainer location are hints, but I do not know…. E