Saturday, March 2, 2024

Northern Pacific GS Gondolas

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  Two prototype photos, Minnesota Transportation Museum or Minnesota Historical Society (uncertain,) courtesy of James Dick and Aaron Gjermu...
Friday, March 1, 2024

Illinois Terminal 1937 AAR Box Cars

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  The photo shown above (Karl Geffchen photo, Aug. 1978, from the Fallen Flags site) was posted to the Railroad Modeling the 1970s Group on ...
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Sunday, February 25, 2024

A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats

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  Westerfield PRR X23 box car (coming in styrene from Rapido) I used to be able to look at layout photos in a magazine or visit a layout and...
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Friday, February 2, 2024

Modeling the Pennsylvania G22 Gondola in HO scale

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  I built this model so long ago that this tiny image is all I have. It's from the days of scanning images from actual photographic prin...
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Thursday, February 1, 2024

Pennsylvania Railroad G22 Gondola

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  Note the abuse to the grab irons on this G22... it's ok if your grabs are bent and dinged! Zanesville, Ohio, 1954, John C LaRue, Jr. C...
Thursday, January 25, 2024

Milwaukee Road 40' and 50' Single Sheathed Auto Cars of 1928 & 1929

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  This photo shows one of the 40' cars with a raised roof. Big Four Graphics In 1928, the Milwaukee Road received 300 single sheathed au...
Sunday, January 21, 2024

Comparison of 12-Panel Box Cars - Southern Pacific and Great Northern

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Many years ago (longer than I can believe) I built the model shown above* and patted myself on the back for having made an SP class B-50-25 ...