Hello, I'm in search of an in service photo of UP Steam Locomotive Challenger "3977" painted in the two tone gray paint scheme. Anyone that can provide me...
List, Due to a surprising windfall of unknown vacation time "that must get used or lose it", I wish to venture out and chase a train or two. Does anybody on...
... As needed, usually once or twice per week, sometimes three times with a St Maries departure of about noon. They usually run to Plummer on the days they...
Friday an Eastern Washington Gateway grain train of about 40 cars was at the Ritzville unit grain elevator. Gone by Sunday. You might check there for a ...
That train was parked north of Cheney next to the rodeo grounds on Saturday. I'm not sure if they've left yet, or will leave Monday morning. They've been...
I must have missed the change of the home page photo. That's a very nice shot, where and when was it taken? Who is the photographer? Chris Atkins Lewisville,...
... That's a Ron Nixon photo taken at Craigmont on May 22, 1951. You can find more of Nixon's photos and photos from his collection on the Museum of the...
Hi List, Just a plug for my ebay auctions this week, including the book Smoke Along the Columbia by Ehernberger and Gschwind, published 1968, which features...
Chris Atkins axed: "Hey man, Selling all your books and replacing them with Australian versions?" Just those that have a reasonable chance of selling! Gotta...
Just pulling a few legs. Staying in the US, modeling Australia. Someone's got to do it, and it might as well be me! Operations are quite a bit different down...
Blair, Wow I have collected CSP motive power and rolling stock in N scale for the last 10 years, while concurrently modelling my home state of Victoria in HO...
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Hey guys, I recently came across this shot and thought I'd share. It looks like the 770 is in Pasco for service of some kind. No info about that is on the...
Has this list been dead lately or is it just summer doldrums? Anyway, still thinning the herd of models, and I'm letting one of my custom Walla Walla Valley...
... Rather quiet the past month--maybe everyone is depressed by the high gas prices. Very nice job on the WWV HH660--almost makes me want to take up HO scale. ...
Hi... New here. I have a question: Do the 1970 NP track charts include the CP? I'm thinking of western branch lines, #47-63. And if they do include the CP,...
Hi Dave, Yes, the 1970 branch line track charts include the Camas Prairie. #50 is the P&L and #51 is the "Clearwater Shortline" (1st sub), #52 is the "Orofino...
... It was cancelled after a couple of years and the equipment went away. I assume that they weren't making enough money to stay in business, but if I heard...
I'm making two models of PCC GP30's in HO scale, and to do that I needed to have custom decal sheets made for them. I figured that I can't be the only person...
The following story came from the Lewiston Tribune, June 22 2008. Matt Moscow/Boise Staying on track Car storage making it possible for short lines to survive...
Thanks for forwarding that article. It is good to see the operators seem committed to keeping the lines open. Too bad the state of Idaho doesn't to want to...
There's two critical items omitted from the story (no suprise there given the source!) that need comment. First, although it is true that as diesel prices...
Dave Smith wrote of grain shipments on the Palouse --> Secondly, there is a growing demand for containerized grain shipping options out of this region. <-- ...
I don't have the specific rate numbers, but I can tell you that containerized grain shipments occur in large part due to the relative trade imbalance between...
I was doing some research recently at the MHS in St. Paul on the topic of "new" Mechanical Refrigerator cars and mention was made (about 1954) about the...
James, I believe that the Snow Crop plant was what eventually became Twin City Foods. If so, the CSP got considerable business from them. Can anyone confirm...