Photo: PRR Boxcar 61973 (Undated) A photo from the South Wood County Historical Museum: https://content.mpl.org/digital/collection/swch/id/165/rec/140 Use the arrows and scroll to enlarge the photo. B

Does anyone know what kind of roof and what kind of ends were on the Cardox dry ice cars in the CDCX 100-122 series? I suspect diagonal panel roofs and 1/3/4 or 4/4 ends, but I'm hoping to get some au

Hi Scott: Great looking car. Was this some kit or a scratch built? I recently finished two GN hog-fuel cars from Portland Car & Foundry kits. They are rather similar, with open tops, but have no exter

I have just started building the Speedwitch SP A-50-4 kit and would like to update it with AB brakes. The kit is supplied with K brakes and states that no A-50-4s made it past 1953 as there is no evid

I've discovered the M&StL served the Minneapolis Moline plant near the Red Owl warehouse. I thought I might as well put down the products going into the plant while I have the book. After doing the Re

Folks; Has anyone received an early PS-1 from Kadee? Which RRs would be represented by this model? I assume they’re up to Kadee’s usual standard of accuracy. What do you think? Elden Gatwood

I am in the process of building the Resin Car Works Soo Line 50’ boxcar kit. Two different type of brake gear are provided, but I couldn’t find any information that shows which series of cars used whi

Does anyone have something documenting who built N&W 12000-12499 class Hu coal hoppers circa 1923? Thanks in advance, Steve Hile

Sam, Just wanted to say thanks for listening, responding, and being a part of the community. I would extend the same thanks to Dennis from Accurail, Andrew from Westerfield, and David from Tangent. (D

Friends, Here it is, from the October 1993 RMJ. Sorry it is so small, but that's the way they often presented photos, to the irritation of some well-known authors. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆

All, My father recently got the itch to reproduce a 1907 American Strawboard boxcar (as seen here and here) and has given me the job of researching decals. I used Photoshop Element’s perspective crop

Hi List Members, Boxcar Chicago Milwaukee & Puget Sound 203906 at an awkward moment back in 1912... https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:p5548567w Oops! Claus Schlund

Hi List Members, Maybe some of us might be interested in this nice 1927 view of heavy duty flat ERIE 7206 with transformer loads coming from GE... https://cityofboston.access.preservica.com/uncategori

Hi List Members, Image of ERIE boxcar and a UNION gon at Henderson, PA in 1914. One could wish for more resolution on this image... http://www.coalcampusa.com/westpa/pittsburgh/henderson/hendersonmine

I am currently working on a new Accurail MILW Double Door 40 foot car and it occurred to me that somewhere I had read that they used the Royal Brake Regulator cylinders and levers. I checked all on ha

Photo: NYC Gondola 329127 (1920) A photo from the Milwaukee Public Library: https://content.mpl.org/digital/collection/HstoricPho/id/4833/rec/13 Use the arrows and scroll to enlarge the photo. Bob Cha

Hi List Members, I cannot quite make out whose rebuilt USRA boxcar this is, but someone will be able to nail it, especially given that there appears to be a map on the side of the boxcar https://www.d

Thanks for the info, Garth! Elden Gatwood

TJ, could you please contact me off list? cepropst@q.com

It's really quite fascinating. A lake frozen hard enough that multiple cars were driven out on it. but it's the harvesting that is interesting. How they did that. Schuyler > Erie subsidiary Wilkes-Bar