Anyone have a prototype photo (or reference to one) of these cars as they would have looked in the 1930s? The Westerfield kit (their no. 11251) has a couple of builders photos, but would like to see a

It's be nice to know the make up of this train (attached) running on the branch l model. It's obvious the first car is an X31. I've been told the second is a D&H Seley hopper. I have a Bowser X31 and

Silent Film With Santa Fe Livestock Cars & Scenes Courtesy of Steve Rippeteau, here is a link to the 1925 Buster Keaton film, Go West! https://youtu.be/AIEMzrd4LTQ The scenes of interest are at 43-50

Hello folks- 1936 to 1940 were the years that large numbers of square corner Drednaught end equipped '37 AAR box cars were built. As can be seen in the list below of these square corner end cars, ther

Hi Al- Based on your mentioning of IC 50'ers, I went to Fallen Flag and found a 1968 shot of IC 34730, a 4 + 5 panel double door SS car. This car had 5-5-7 Murphy corrugated ends, a lower side sill fi

Hi List Members, I too have has much trouble accessing the TRAINLIFE site. One work-around that I have found, that appears to work as of this current moment, is to build a URL that is based around the

RE: Rounding Once the ARA/AAR/whomever went to “whole” inches… - Inside dimensions are rounded DOWN to the whole inch value - Outside dimensions are rounded UP to the whole inch value. For example, in

I uploaded 9 color swatches from C&NW box car photo scans so you can see the range of colors over time, under different lighting conditions and paint schemes. I don't know how to combine them into one

Friends, While rambling through my collection, I came upon this view of Cambria & Indiana hopper 1888. Oddly, this was taken in Charlottesville, Virginia, on the C&O (well, really CSX by then), probab

Photo: ATSF 126970 Bx-12 (1968) A photo courtesy of Stan Kistler. One of 3,500 Bx-12s purchased by Santa Fe in 1930 from three different builders. This car was built by Pullman. Sign on car (probably)

Hey everyone, I looked at photos of various PFE reefers from the mid 1930s and onward which contain these boxes with lettering in them. What information is put into these boxes and why do they change

Photos: Richter Vinegar Company Cars RVCX 20 From the National Railroad Museum: https://fh-sites.imgix.net/sites/2564/2017/11/23193816/richter-vinegar-company-no-rvcx-20.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1

I used to post sales of plastic models that I'd deliver to ChicagoLand/Naperville to save the buyer shipping, but that ain't happening... So, I have three tank cars and two reefers I would like to sel

If interested, check these out. https://www.ebay.com/itm/114548289473?ul_noapp=true https://www.ebay.com/itm/114548297435?ul_noapp=true Clark Propst

Photo: SP Livestock Car 74207 A Roy Platt photo from the Wicked City Chronicle: https://wickedcityjeromeaz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/box-car.jpg Bob Chaparro Moderator Railway Bull Shippers Group

New release for Small Business Saturday: our next production of General American 8,000 Gallon Insulated 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Cars. By the end of World War I, U.S. production of oil and oil-r

I picked up a Southbound Modelworks Seaboard low side gon recently, former Wrighttrak I believe. There are a few pics in the instructions but they are small. Looking for more information on the G10 pr

Offered, one only- I have a set of castings to do a WP Pullman built 1916 40' SS box car in HO resin. Buyer will get the complete set of castings, which includes the under frame with separate cross-ti

This car has been sold. Thanks for all who responded. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

Out west we had a large regional gasoline retail brand called Signal Oil Co. which started out by buying and reselling Well Head Gas which was the liquid found around the well (as Tim mentions) which