Web sites, railroad history, great music & cream soda.

HO Freight Car model and decal sources

Al Westerfield's Model Freight Cars - Al's since retired and Andrew Dahm has bought his business. I've ordered two RI stockcars from him and them arrived in a timely fashion and well packed.

http://www.westerfieldmodels.com/

Speedwitch - out of business, look on an online auction site

http://www.speedwitch.com/

Greg Komar's dry transfer decals - Greg is closing his business after 7/31/13

http://www.greatdecals.com/CAT9_11-19-07.PDF

Gary Wright's resin caboose & freight car kits

http://www.wrighttrak.com/

Rocket Express Models - if you model the RI in the 1940's thru the 1970's check out his kits.

http://rocketexpress.biz/default.html

Jerry Glow's Custom Decals - Jerry's decals are well research nice decals upgrades for Tichy's P&LE rebuilt boxcar and F&C's kits (which have terrible decals).

http://home.comcast.net/~jerryglow/decals.html

http://home.comcast.net/~jerryglow/decals/decals.html

If all else fails go here..for decals

http://www.greatdecals.com/

Burlington Route Group's model page

http://www.burlingtonroute.com/docs/modelling/ho_kits.html

Building and depot models

Bill Hoss' Lake Junction Models - many of the depots on the Bagnell Branch are from Bill. The side door caboose is one of my favorite pieces of rolling stock he's produced. If you're a serious Mopac modeler check out his product line of buildings and rolling stock.

http://lakejunctionmodels.com/

City Classics

http://cityclassics.fwc-host.com/

Downtown Deco

http://www.downtowndeco.com/index.htm

Northeastern Scale Lumber

http://www.northeasternscalelumber.com/

Modeling tips and scenery ideas

Hard to believe this is modeling

http://www.modvid.com.au/html/body_miniature_worldwide.html

Bagnell Branch featured in Model Railroad Planning 2010, go to this url order

https://secure.kalmbach.com/offer/Default.aspx?c=IF9CMP1

Paul Scoles scenery on his Sn3 layout

http://www.paulscoles.com/Photo_Album.php

Weathering models

http://www.missing-lynx.com/rw/rw.htm

http://scratchmod.com/CELTICWERKS_Product.php

Making tall grasses from hemp rope

http://fichtenfoo.com/blog/?p=113

EZ Line - telegraph lines

http://www.berkshirejunction.com/

Scenery in the Ozarks

http://www.ozarkmountainimages.com/

Country Grain Elevator Historical Society

http://www.country-grain-elevator-historical-society.org/

Video on how a grain elevator works - circa 1981 - boxcar loading

http://www.nfb.ca/film/grain_elevator/

Site for model railroad signs

http://www.trainweb.org/tylick/signintro.htm

Jim Six Photo Bucket of his HO freight cars and buildings.

http://s22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/jsix/?start=all

Prototype information on railroads

Mopac Historical Society

http://www.mopac.org/

Rock Island Techincal Society Web Site

http://www.rits.org/

Cole County Mopac history

http://www.colecohistsoc.org/mopacrr.html

Missouri Depot Site

http://www.missouridepots.com/

Kansas Depot Site

http://www.kansasmemory.org/locate.php?query=%22missouri+pacific%22&restrict=all\
&categories=1265-291-340&page=1<http://www.kansasmemory.org/locate.php?query=%22\
missouri+pacific%22&restrict=all&categories=1265-291-340&page=2>

Missouri Pacific existing depots and stations from David Hoge's web site

http://homepage.mac.com/davidhoge/mpstru/mpstru.htm

Mopac Historical Society

http://mopac.org/

KO&G-Midland Valley Railroads

http://condrenrails.com/FSVB/Midland-Valley.htm

Mike Condren's Mopac web site

http://condrenrails.com/MoPac/MoPac_Loco_Pixs.html

Denver Public Library - search Otto Perry's photos

http://history.denverlibrary.org/images/index.html

Omaha stock yards

http://www.railroadforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26579

Fallen Flags Railroad site

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/

Google Railroad book showing early colors used on equipment

http://books.google.com/books?id=j3s3AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+official+railway+list&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false

Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Photos

http://digital.library.pitt.edu/images/pittsburgh/plerr.html

Springfield, Missouri collection of SLSF photos

http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/lochist/frisco/friscoline/rolling.cfm

CP in the 1950's

http://www.nfb.ca/film/railroaders

Missouri Pacific Steam in Arkansas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iozs1csc3mY

Prototype Freight Cars Photos

PRR Freight cars

http://prr.railfan.net/freight/freightphotos.html

LA River Railroad's Galleries - well worth the visit - color shots are great reference material.

http://lariverrailroads.com/reefer.html

http://lariverrailroads.com/freight_car.html

Steam Freight Cars Galleries

http://www.steamfreightcars.com/gallery/gallerymain.html

New York Central Freight Cars

http://www.canadasouthern.com/caso/nyc-freight.htm

Site devoted to prototype images of freight cars

http://www.steamfreightcars.com/gallery/shot%20of%20mo/shotofmonthmain.html

http://www.boxcars.us/index.html

Steam Era Freight Car Web Site

http://www.steamfreightcars.com/

1940's Miscellaneous Rolling Stock from Jack Whitmeyer's collection

http://users.snowcrest.net/photobob/mrs.html

Ed Hawkins and Pat Wilder's 'Railway Prototype Cyclopedia

http://www.geocities.com/rpcyc/home.html

HO Built-up freight cars

Jerry Glow's built up freight cars

http://home.comcast.net/~jerryglow/modeling/

Steam Era Freight Cars - various modelers showcased.

http://www.steamfreightcars.com/modeling/models/modelsmain.html

John Golden Freight Car Photos

http://www.pbase.com/golden1014/model_photos&page=1

Dave Hussey Cocoa Beach shots

http://www.pbase.com/dh30973/cocoa2011

HO Model railroads

Tim Dickinson's wonderful BN layout - lots of F units to boot!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3wp2DJ4MRc

Magnolia Route HO layout

http://magnoliaroute.com/magnolia%20route.htm

NYO&W HO layout

http://oandw.home.comcast.net/~oandw/index.html

Bob Smaus SP layout

http://www.bobsgardenpath.com/trains_2.html

Gerry Leone's Bona Vista Railroad

http://home.earthlink.net/~gerryleone/trains.htm

Cletus Waldman's Dagus and Rockwood Railroad

http://web.mac.com/cgwaldman/Dagus_And_Rockwood_Model_Railroad/Welcome.html

Mike Chamber's Central Missouri & Southern Railroad Company

http://homepage.mac.com/michael21/CMShome/cmshome.html

Cliffside

http://remembercliffside.com/galleries/model/gallery1/gal1_01.html

Historical Photo collections

Ron Nixon Railroad Collection

http://muse.museum.montana.edu/rvndb/

Life magazine photos - search on 'railroad', 'tankcar' or 'freight car'.

http://www.life.com/Life/

John Vander Maas Railroad collection of photos in Iowa. One can lose a acouple hours surfing depots.....

http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm4/index_railroadiana.php?CISOROOT=/railroadiana

FSA/WPA Great Depression Photographs

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html

George E. Hall photo postcards of the Ozarks 1900

http://gchudleigh.com/hallnumeric.html

Miller County Museum - Bagnell Branch photos

http://www.millercountymuseum.org/

Jefferson City History

http://www.colecohistsoc.org/photos/sudencoc_web.pdf

Olean, Missouri history

http://www.newstribune.com/articles/2007/05/23/features/222feature10.txt

Buster Keaton's motor car ride across Canada

http://www.nfb.ca/film/railrodder

My son-in-law Matt's cream soda reviews

http://drinkcreamsoda.weebly.com/

"Blokest Bloke" car - driving a Triumph TR6 - when it's winter and I can't drive the TR I go here....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIv0gNwZfFA

My 'other' hobbies, WWI 1/48 model airplanes

http://www.wwi-models.org/Images/Duckworth/index.html