Prototype Railroad Topics

  There are certain freight car prototypes that just appeal to me, whatever the reason. The Frisco's USRA-design composite gondolas are ...

Murphy XLA on a Minneapolis & St. Louis USRA design 40-ton double sheathed box car. Jack Delano photo, Chicago and North Western Proviso...

  One of my favorite modeling projects ever*, a NYC 50-foot box car with end door... very illustrative of slow modeling, given the out of th...

  If you market just about anything these days, you are only as good or relevant as your last offering. With the Milwaukee car in production...

This model is based upon a group of 500 cars delivered to the Milwaukee in 1929 by Pullman Car & Manufacturing Co. The cars were placed ...

  This is one of the first group of cars with the Dartnot end. GATC photo, Bob's Photo Like the other major refrigerated car fleet opera...

  It's hard to fathom that it's been five years since Bill departed. While it's a blur in one sense, as always a lot has transp...