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  • Readers' Roster

    December 20, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 444 views - 1 comment - 0 likes
    Additions to your freight car modeling knowledge, and your chance to update, clarify, expand and correct any freight car article we publish...    It would take a major kit-conversion to make a precise duplicate of this GN...

  • PS-1 40-foot Box Cars

    December 18, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 603 views - 2 comments - 3 likes
    Freight Cars (c. 1950-1959) Prototypes from the Fifties (with one Sixties+ era car) that were all still in service in 1964 wearing their decade old paint and markings. Photos from the collection of Bill Brigham, courtesy the Rutland Railroad Histori...

  • Cars in Context

    December 18, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 280 views - 0 comments - 0 likes
    Cleveland, Ohio, circa summer 1957 on the Nickel Plate Road Photos by Willis McCaleb from the James Semon collecton. Interstate 71 was just being built through Cleveland's Cuyahoga Valley when Willis McCaleb captured these two Nickel Plate Road frei...

  • A Brief History of Missouri Pacific Diesels

    November 14, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 429 views - 0 comments - 0 likes
    Missouri Pacific EMD GP-7, Oass 48, No. 181, renumbered to 1611 in 1974. The following unit models are unknown. - Photo by Walter Brown. Missouri Pacific EMD SD-40, Class 70, No. 760. Notice the size and position of the "Buzz Saw" emb...

  • EMDs Export Model GA8

    November 6, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 470 views - 0 comments - 0 likes
    NdeM GA-8, No. 5416, switching cars in Mexico City's dual-gauge yard near the San Lazaro station on September 14, 1973. - Photo by the author. by Peter Arnold    The photo of the Coahuilay and Zacatecas GA8's in the June...

  • KCS Boxcar No. 21301

    September 12, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 449 views - 0 comments - 0 likes
    Apparently ex-Milwaukee Road ribbed side box car in KCS service. - Cyril Durrenberger photo.Base lettering showing through the right side paint in this photo indicates previous ownership. - Cyril Durrenberger photo. by Cyril J. Durrenberg...

  • Santa Fe Food Service Boxcar

    September 12, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 491 views - 0 comments - 0 likes
    by Tom Balzen    In the July/August, 1976, issue of the Southwestern Prototype Modeler, there is a fine article on a Santa Fe Fe-28 Box Car. The car modeled is assigned to food service only. To compliment the Fe-28 articl...

  • Northern Pacific GP7 Diesel Locomotives 1950 -1970

    September 9, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 824 views - 0 comments - 0 likes
    Stan F. Styles photo. by Richard E. Buike    The focus of this article will largely be on the prototypes, but with emphasis on their visible similarities and differences: particularly as they apply to modeling. Where known...

  • NP Road Switcher Painting & Lettering Schemes

    September 4, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 545 views - 0 comments - 0 likes
    by Todd L. Sullivan Northern Pacific Number 501 taken at Lewiston, Idaho, on May 28, 1951. - W. C. Whittaker photo.    Your Northern Pacific Editor and your NP Diesel Editor have been scrutinizing photographs and slides ...

  • Rio Grande Diesel Color Schemes

    August 20, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 637 views - 0 comments - 0 likes
    Figure 1. Denver and Rio Grande Western FT No. 551A, March, 1947. - D&RGW photo from the collection of the Colorado Historical Society.Figure 2. Denver and Rio Grande Western FT No. 549, July, 1947. - D&RGW photo from the collection of the Col...