Prototype Railroad Topics

  Since the passing of Bill Welch, I have received many inquiries about the book that he was so passionately engaged in creating. I thought ...

  "Tank car going over the retarder at the south hump at an Illinois Central Railroad yard," Chicago, Illinois, Nov. 1942, Jack De...

  As promised at the clinic, here is the file from my presentation about etchings . Note that it does contain some new and updated material ...

  Note the Murphy-type corrugated steel ends. Ralston Steel Car Co. photo, from Columbus Railroads web site (although I cannot find the exac...

  E. M Bittner This image (click on it to see a larger view) is an ebay purchase. It's a vintage Ektachrome slide that given the decades...

Will Whittaker photo Awhile back, I posted about the similarities between the Milwaukee and Green Bay & Western forty-foot single sheath...

It’s been awhile since I have communicated about the state of affairs at Speedwitch. As some of you no doubt recall, I had planned to have t...