Athearn has announced Frisco FGE Mechanical reefers in 3 road numbers:...
I received my “Swatara Rapids” and “Cascade Brim” from Lowell yesterday. Beautiful cars. I need to get my photo gear out and record my updated...
Athearn announced they are doing a run of Frisco bay window cabooses in 3 numbers (1728, 1731,1733)...
I don’t ( yet ) have one from this run, but I do have two from the original Life-Like runs. Spookshow says the chassis is the same as the...
The eastern seaboard 14-4 cars are a different plan number than the Frisco/Katy cars. A better option is the Union Station Products or Des...
Here is a photo taken from the Jefferson Ave footbridge towards the Springfield Hub Center. There is a lumber yard in the distance that was on...
This is what BN referred to as the Springfield Hub Center. I built an n-trak module inspired by this site. At least in the late 1980s, It had a...
Not likely. Lowell is an n-scaler, and the whole reason he got into the manufacturing side of things was that Walthers wanted out of n-scale......
There is a new announcement from Lowell today: a pair of sleepers painted for Frisco: Car names are “Osage River” and “James River”....
Yesterday the mailman brought me 5 additional cars from Lowell. I received the 3 Railsmith Frisco coaches, the MTL Frisco heavyweight baggage...
That may be the same reason he no longer posts here....
Just to add some information to this old thread... The camouflage roster as published by the Frisco Museum ( which is available here:...
There is more information on 1401 here: http://www.frisco.org/shipit/index.php?threads/1401-full-lounge-nee-oklahoma-city.1430/ Apparently both...
That Tulsa was one of the two streamlined observation cars built for the Meteor. The heavyweight car was built in the 1930s. It lost its name...
Possibly, but did the NH have cars that were painted red and silver like this? I know the NH had red and stainless fluted cars, but I don’t think...
@Karl that is certainly a possibility. I certainly lean towards this being a heavyweight car. In addition to the cars you listed, these cars...
According to the makeup of trains books referenced earlier, the Penn-Texas had 2 RPOs between St. Louis and Pittsburgh every day except Saturday...
And now Lowell has announced “Tioga Rapids” in red and silver paint: https://lowellsmith.net/product/texas-special-tioga-rapids/ This car in...
I am with you on that part. My only problem with identifying the train as the Penn-Texas Is that I can’t find a PRR makeup of trains in the...
So I bought a photo of a PRR passenger train leaving St. Louis, because I wanted to try to figure out what we are seeing operationally. [ATTACH]...
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