Hi List Members, An unusual car - compressed gas? Photo was taken on the SP. Nothing to provide a date other than the automobiles. Image is mirror reversed. Anyone care to share some insights? http://

Flat Car Deck: What Color? I have a Tangent Scale Models HO scale GSC sixty-foot flatcar. The car is supposed to be a Santa Fe Class Ft-7. It has a build date of 4-56 which is perfect as I model 1956.

Unusual with its fishbelly sidesills is L&N woodrack #20233, from the #20200-20299 series. In 1941 L&N rebuilt ventilator boxcars from several series, some of which had fishbelly sidesills. The carbod

Hello- I found the cover photo on Ted Cullota's "Focus on the Freight car, vol 10", of a 1936 photo of a West Coast gasoline company tank car very sentimental. My interest in this company relates to h

I have a picture of a train on the S.P. Toledo branch in Oregon taken circa 1949. I would like to know the prototype for the unusual double-sheathed boxcar directly behind the engine. It appears to be

I believe this company is out of business. Did another company or companies take over their product line? Thanks. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

March 12th and 13th. Sign up at link https://tcdnmra.org/event-calendar/ You need to sign up for each day separately Clark

Good ol' GATX 1638. She's had a good run, now it's time for her to move on! https://www.ebay.com/itm/114717860829?ul_noapp=true Clark

We recently had a great photo of a WP flat car with a load of BIRCHFIELD boilers posted on this list. Multiscale Digital produces thus model and Gerald Glow has the decals. Multiscale also offers a Ke

Does someone have the instruction sheet for this kit that you could scan for me? Jaeger Products #2900 HO aluminum pipe gondola load instruction sheet Thanks, Steve Johnson Nashville, TN

Notice something odd about this load? https://www.ebay.com/itm/HO-Athearn-1221-SANTA-FE-ATSF-40-SD-Box-Car-16989-Load-Upgraded-Train-MWKD/265064550965 Ben Hom

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

Group, I want to start a project to convert about 15 reefer cars from K brakes to AB brakes and need brake reservoirs. I don't want to steal just the reservoirs from Tichy or other sets and have enoug

Jon's daughter, Stephanie, has sent this link to Jon's obituary: https://hayward.chapelofthechimes.com/obituaries/Jon-Miller-7/#!/Obituary It's fairly simple and focuses on Jon's railroad interests. F

Photo: Rio Grande Flatcar 23018 (1956) Photo from the State Historical Society Of Missouri: https://cdm17228.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/imc/id/12757/rec/9 Scroll on the photo to enlarge it.

Photo: N&W Boxcar 47500 (Class B-7) A photo from the Virginia Tech Universities Library: https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/image_viewer.php?q=ns2895 Click on the photo to enlarge it. Part of series 47500-4

Folks I've hit a wall. Does anyone want to share photos of Southern's 40' double door double sheathed box cars. In 1949 my ORER shows there were 4647 of them in four number series but I can't find a p

Dear Group, I want to pass this sad news on to everybody. Jim’s sister-in-law called today to tell me that Jim passed away in his sleep this morning. He went out the way he wanted to: peacefully at ho

Has the site been hacked as I got an unusual email to undisclosed recipients that was not about freight cars. A guy asking to do something urgent for him and asking to reply! Paul Doggett

I am building an F&C resin kit of a 40' Gare milk car in the livery of Dairymans league. unfortunately the instructions only talk of livery for another car in Pullman green. The picture on the box is