Googling around this evening, I found that most of my B&O image hits were on the web site Pinterest. I am a bit suspicious, because I have encountered most of these images before on web sites more clo

In 1984, I explored the area of West Cumbo Yard complex and took some photos of what remained. By the time I saw it, the yards were being used for storage of coal loads and surplus equipment. Of cours

So, I’m working towards operations on my layout and I was curious how the railroad named it’s trains back in the late 50’s. Can anyone shed some light on this for me? Additionally, does anyone know of

B&Oers.......... Two weekends ago at the Plano train show I picked up a bunch of Athearn 40-foot quad hoppers, which apparently are no longer in production. I lettered them as B&O Class W-2 cars. Now

Hello all: I built an HO scale model of B&O #50 and have been trying to find information about the rest of the train. The cars were made specially for the Royal Blue and the eight-car train only laste

Some exploring google books reveals that Railway Age volume 98 is indeed avaialble for download as a 143 Mb PDF file. link: https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/W3lCAQAAIAAJ?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi5n5j95N

Friends, i was looking for a video I viewed on YouTube some time back of a steam switching loco backing cars into a plant or side track. Does anyone remember such a clip? I think it was in Ohio. Any h

Got a question about classification lights. I recently purchased an Atlas Master H16-44 in HO scale, DCC-equipped. The unit comes with a special socket that has a smaller removable board that you can

Let me give it a go. Comments and clarifications welcome, of course. These stock cars were loaded at the Union Stock Yards and other livestock facilities around Chicago. Direct eastbound Interchange i

Hello, I'm looking for a reasonable stand-in for the B&O Brill that ran on the Washington County branch to Hagerstown. Bachmann made one, Walthers made one. Which is closest to 6045? Lots of Googling,

More thoughts, Bob. As your 1948 roster develops, be aware prototype B&O had mostly diesel switchers in those days, and none assigned to Brunswick. Attached is a 1949 diesel assignment sheet from my d

Here is a picture of the B&O brill with trailer in front of the manufacturing building. Ed Lorence

Edited and fact checked. My photo stash includes A-2 1470 in Washington, Indiana. Other A-2 shown in Newark, Ohio and Cincinnati. A-2a 1474 in Chicago ... at the time, B&O and Alton shared some facili

Hello list, I just got a new scanner and I've been going through my Grandfather's Railroad Magazines. I treat their captions with caution, but I thought this one about modernized Atlantic 1474 was int

Need some input for a manufacturer. Questions are in bold. ScaleTrains has bought the MTH HO scale product line. Before long, they will be re-releasing their best product, the USRA twin hopper. B&O cl

Bob Yanosey's Morning Sun book "Observation Car Color Portfolio, Vol 1" is available for sale. This is a softbound of 96 pages with 16 devoted to 32 B&O images. It can be purchased as Item 10186 with

Hi all, I couldn't figure out how to just send the site info so I just forwarded the email. Sorry it's from the N&W group I belong to, my wife's late grandfather worked at Portmouth Ohio for the N&W.

John, NEVER MIND! I learned the secret handshake when I looked in "Photos". My apologies. John Kernan I previously wrote: Hello John, Unless my being able to do so is similar to knowing a secret hands

Let's see if this helps explain some of the visual differences between N-35 and N-35A open hoppers. John King Builder's photo of 427218. Note how the piece that extends from the bottom of the car at t

Images showing Early Linking 13 States scheme were a little too big for their britches memory wise, here they are in this followup email. The scruffy N-35a in this lettering is shown with a smalll 25"