Thanks very much Karl, I think something like this is far more likely to be the answer than new frames. Gordon
Wes Camp on Trainorders.com is asserting that reequipping a steam locomotive with a Delta training truck also required a new frame. I have never...
A typo on my part -- what I meant to say was that it was easier to scan current threads withOUT having each new photo included in the list of...
I, too, miss the old Portal page. Also it was much easier to follow recent messages/threads with having every photo posted to the Archives...
Southern also had P-S fluted-side 14-4's Gordon
PSC must have gotten detailed drawings somewhere in order to have produced the Firefly's cars which certainly seem to me to be accurate. Don, can...
The Rail Graphics steam locomotive decals (HO) in Dulux Imitation Gold are here and I am going to be mailing them out next week to the people that...
[IMG] Here it is in July of 1948 looking pretty fine in Tulsa, OK One of few with a coonskin number plate. J. L. Hoffman photograph. Gordon
Don A question of general interest has been raised which is the approximate date that gold leaf quit being used and Dulux introduced. It got me...
Thanks to a lot of work by Don Wirth, Rail Graphics has agreed to produce a private limited run of HO Frisco steam locomotive decals in Dulux...
A sad day indeed. I only met Joe once, in 1954 when Dick Wallin took me to his house. His books filled a big void concerning the railroads in...
Foreign line Pullmans were frequently seen on 704/709, mainly transporting troops to/from Fort Chaffee, and these would have at least passed...
Sorry folks, I should have looked at one more source before posting my original message. If I had I would have realized that the mystery was...
Thanks for the explanation, James, and for the photo Bob. Actually once I saw the photo I realized that I had it if I just hadn't been to lazy to...
In looking through the "Description of Locomotives, Passenger, Freight and Miscellaneous Equipment of the Frisco Lines" issued by Geo. A Hancock,...
A good mystery is always fun, and often leads to other mysteries -- in this case being the date when 627 appears to have gotten new valves. I...
[ATTACH] When you're my age it's dangerous to dig through old boxes as you never know what will show up that you had long forgotten. Today it...
Good catch, Roger! I did not even think to look at the GP38-2. The two MP15DCs have been in Duluth for several years, usually working...
Almost two years later not only are 3701 and 3702 (SLSF 362-363) still in Duluth (Minnesota), but now they have been joined by SW1500 3411 (SLSF...
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