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  • Modeling Santa Fe PS2-CD 4750 Covered Hoppers Part 2

    September 30, 2011 - posted by Christopher Brimley - 1,189 views - 0 comments - 1 like
    by Ken Edmier Photos by Ken Edmier and Tim Frederick GA-191 brake-end detail. Note horizontal brake beam and low-mounted brake cylinder. GA-191 End Detail & Assembly For the GA-191 class, the brake air tank is mounted on the left s...

  • AT&SF Operations in Santa Fe, New Mexico

    November 14, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 463 views - 0 comments - 0 likes
    Looking northeast towards the Santa Fe depot from Hickox Street. - Photo is by the author. by Monte Perkins    In June of 1879 the Santa Fe began using the newly constructed Raton Tunnel. Beyond lay the important city of S...

  • Kit, Part, Detail Reviews

    November 13, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 447 views - 0 comments - 0 likes
    by the Prototype Modeler Staff All kit, part, and detail reviews published by Prototype Modeler are prepared by Staff and Contributing Editors. Reviews reflect the opinion of the individual reviewer; any comment or suggestions should be...

  • Peter Arnold Covers the Athearn 50' Single Door Box Car in HO

    November 6, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 404 views - 1 comment - 1 like
    SP 653751 photographed in June, 1979, at San Luis Obispo, California, is identical to the Athearn car. The tack boards on the door and ends will have to be removed from the model, and the tack board put back in a lower position on the door. The ribs o...

  • Santa Fe Bx-3 and Bx-63 Class Box Cars - Part 1

    November 1, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 1,950 views - 0 comments - 0 likes
    An Advanced Modeling Project by John Porter The Santa Fe Bx-3 Class Box Car featured in this article together with the Ann Arbor box car from the October issue of Prototype Modeler.    This article is meant for the expe...

  • Santa Fe's Red Combine a Baggage Waycar

    October 14, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 511 views - 0 comments - 1 like
    By Ed. E. Mercer ATSF No. 2773 (an EMD GP7) and combine No. 2623 make up the absolute minimum in mixed trains with just the combine and a single box car. The photo was taken at Shawnee, Oklahoma in the Summer of 1961. - Photo by Bruce W. Brown ...

  • Detailing the Santa Fe Steel Caboose

    September 22, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 774 views - 0 comments - 0 likes
    Several classes of the Santa Fe steel caboose of the so-called "steam era" are shown being switched in the Amarillo, TX, yards in the summer of 1955. Power for this switching movement is a 1674 Class 2-10-2. - Photo is by J. Howard Miller. ...

  • Santa Fe's Heavyweight Railway Post Office Cars

    September 13, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 793 views - 0 comments - 2 likes
    Santa Fe's RPO Number 75 as it appeared in the middle sixties. - Joe Shine collection. Walther's model of the ATSF RPO No. 75 built by Peter Singher. - Bill Messecar photo. by Joseph Shine Santa Fe 's RPO No. 75 in "shadow striping" in...

  • Santa Fe Food Service Boxcar

    September 12, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 484 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...

  • Remodeling the AHM Blue Goose

    September 2, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 589 views - 0 comments - 0 likes
    This photo of Santa Fe's 3460, the "Blue Goose," was taken in Chicago on April 10, 1938. Skirting is still in place and the loco looks much as it was delivered. - Photo from the collection of Stan Kistler. by Lynn Aldrich   &nb...