Photo: Buffalo. Rochester & Pittsburgh Ry Box Car In the lower right hand corner of this 1909 boxcar is a stencil that reads "M. C. B. Pocket Coupler". Is "M.C.B" Master Car Builders and what is a poc

I have a RI 264000 series single-sheathed double door box (Rocket Express) almost ready to paint. I'm looking for the lettering style from the mid-late 50s, either as a general service car or as a hid

We've discussed the Single Sheath boxcars over on the WP Modelers FB site a couple of times. Bill Kennedy has decals that cover the 26000 series with the proper medallion. Here is an image of the cars

I a weak moment I picked up an Accurail box car at the mall show yesterday. It's box number is 4498 It's described as a 'Data Only - DK'. I thought it might work for the CL mini-kit, only noticing the

Photo: Alaska RR Flat Car 12812 With Load Photo from the Sherman Stebbins Collection: https://www.alaskarails.org/historical2/Stebbins/Flatbed-cargo.jpg Caption: "Fish-belly flat ARR 12812 most likely

Hello everyone, I've just completed a batch of Utah Coal Route GS gondola kits in HO scale, and listed them on Ebay. There are two options for grab irons: solid "cast" type, and wire grab drill points

Of much greater interest to me is this IC 50 foot box car has a 6 foot door! :-) Tim O' -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Questions For The Group: Ladders & Grab Irons Was there a point in time at which full-length ladders became mandatory for rolling stock in interchange service, thereby replacing individual grab irons

A possible source for some freight car loads http://steelmillmodelerssupply.com/ Tim O' -- *Tim O'Connor* *Sterling, Massachusetts*

Photo: CCC&St.L Boxcar S59397 Circa 1925 photo from the Erie Lackawanna Railfan website: http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-12-05-19/X4117.jpg This car was built in 1923. Hopefully, w

Photo: Trainload of Maytag Washers This is link to a 1935 publicity photo from the collection of the University of Utah: https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tj0x2j Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

I know there are some dealers here and wondering if any of you have FOR SALE the Penn Salt tank car done by Broadway Limited #6123. This IS NOT the Blue & Yellow version. You can email me offline at f

http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-12-07-19/X4299.jpg Brian Rochon

Hi guys The Accurail conversion is ready for painting and decals for WP I have left the original roof as Tony Thompson reckons some got steel roofs at some stage. The kit bashing is not perfect as I r

Resin Car Works has HO scale Santa Fe 50-foot Whalebelly boxcar kits available now! Details about this latest release, the remaining Soo boxcar kits, and an upcoming kit release are in our latest blog

Photos: Salt Lake, Garfield & Western Railway Boxcar 108 Three photos of the same boxcar from the Lakes States Archives: https://www.lakestatesarchive.org/Ed-Wilkommen-Collection/Freight-Cars/i-fgKGH6

Looking to contact Ed Kaminski to get permission to use a Magor Erie caboose photo in a Pere Marquette 8-wheel Wooden Cabooses article. It was a sister Advisory Mech Comm spec'd caboose to the PM A800

Hello Steam Era Modeler: Westerfield Models has three new Kits available now! Our newest HO releases are Kits #12901 Fe-Q, #13001 Fe-R and #13151 Fe-V 50 foot sectional sheathed Automobile boxcars, al

Photo: Fruit Growers Express 19153 This is link to a 1916 photo from the collection of the University of Utah: https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64f22xx I see there is a car number but no r

Yesterday an email came in consisting of a very large collection of both freight and passenger car photos.While very excitingly going through this collection sudenly Pooof they disappeared from my pho