Thursday, November 28, 2019

A visit to the Valley Line

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PDX-2 on the Shailerville Bridge at Haddam, Connecticut Last weekend, I had the pleasure of operating on Chris Adams's HO scale lay...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Load for the McKeesport Connecting Railroad Gondola

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A little while back, I started work on a Funaro & Camerlengo McKeesport Connecting HO scale gon dola . I have done a fair amount of w...
Monday, November 25, 2019

Universal 5700XL Hand Brake with M2049 Hand Wheel

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In my recent post on the Kadee early version of the 40' PS-1 box car decorated for New Haven, I noted the new Universal 5700XL power...
Thursday, November 21, 2019

Kadee Early PS-1 40' Box Car

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Earlier this year, Kadee released an early version of the Pullman-Standard PS-1 40' box car. As seen in the photos, they tooled an ent...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Transition Era Texas Oil (Texaco) Tank Cars - Part One

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In 1935 the sizeable Texaco tank car fleet, just under 6,000 cars strong, was sold to General American and leased back to Texaco. The rep...
Monday, November 18, 2019

The Anatomy of a Tank Car - General American

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The following pamphlet is something that I have in my collection of various materials. As noted from the cover letter, it was sent to Fran...
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Wordy Wednesday - Omaha, Nebraska May, 1948

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Click on the images to see a larger view. This photo is interesting to me for a number of reasons. The unusual PFE painting arrangement...