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I remembered this on page 56 of George Turner's "Slim Rails through the sand". Hope it helps

I finished this Rio Grande Models kit in Sn3. I added a lot of extra parts to make it look right and sit on the trucks correctly.
Please scroll down to see a phpto of it unpainted.

I am planning a painting of SP #22 taking water at Hammil. I noticed in color photos taken in the 1950s the tanks were painted black. What color were they in the 1930s??

Not much to this 0-4-0 but found it in the back of their little museum. The mining company there had quite a few of them.

Kelly Island in Ohio was a huge quarry operation and at one time owned more Shays than any other company. Also owned SG and NG engines.

Wow, this desert tramway had some real bad luck. Myrick reports elsewhere in that volume that desert railroads had trouble keeping competent (and sober) help. Evading any regulation hints that they had defective equipment, and possibly no brakes, running the locomotives in reverse to control speeds....

I have an Encyclopedia Britannica world atlas-1936. It has all the n.g. lines before the big spate of abandonments in the downturn of 1937-38 . A lot of fun to look at. Many Nevada towns on this map are long-gone.

Brian,once again thank you for your excellent historical resource. It helps me make the accurate paintings that is what i feel makes my work stand out from the pack. Also, thank you Andrew for the coach info, which is crcucial to doing this painting.

I have a new commission of #12 descending between the miners' union hall and the firehouse at Gold Hill. It would be prior to its retirement in 1908. .Was the locomotive ever converted from wood to oil? It sat in the roundhouse with a flanged stack. Did it ever run with it on? or did it last run wit...

Andrew, thank you for the VERY USEFUL information!Now I will apply it to a 1905-7 Gold Hill painting.