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FGWX 200000

steamfan1211 — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:01:20 +0000

In 1987 while visiting the US a friend of mine photographed this car passing Tower 55. I discovered the picture while scanning some of his slides. Does anyone know the history of the car and how it is used? I have never seen a picture of one before.

Michael.

Silohette

steamfan1211 — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:25:38 +0000

I've often seen photographs of trains in silohette with the sun setting behind them.

Scrap Cans

steamfan1211 — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:15:30 +0000

While looking through my photo's for Gondola Scrap loads I found these two taken from Pepper Ave, at Colton, CA. They show two gondolas loaded with tin cans. I think they would make an excellent load but I can't figure out how to make them in HO. Any ideas. Perhaps someone has already done it.

Load for ExactRail Gunderson Gondola

steamfan1211 — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 03:45:43 +0000

ExactRail Southern Pacific 2420 Cu. Ft. Gondola.

These cars were buily in 1965 by Gunderson Brothers and given the SP class 100-7. They were in the number series 333500 - 334655. In 1985 65 of the cars recieved a re-build and were numbered 800000 - 800064. ExactRail have just released a re-run of this car in the 800000 number series. See this web site for photo's and details.