Jack, I think Southern FC Brown is probably too light. For 1939 I believe that ATSF Mineral Brown would be a better choice. Regards, Ed Hawkins

I agree with Pierre about the Vinegar tank car. I think challenging is a better way to describe this kit. One of the things I find helpful in building such kits to break them down into

All... I am just starting Sunshine Models' Kit #52.13 for the Texas & Pacific 50000 series double-sheathed box car. The Prototype Data Sheet states that these cars were painted boxcar red with a

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Thanks Gentlemen, Fenton Wells -- Fenton Wells 3047 Creek Run Sanford NC 27332 919-499-5545 srrfan1401@... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Go to the messages folder click advanced search and do a search using "author contains": darnaby I just did the same..it is fairly close to the end of the messages Regards Randy -- Best

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Wow, that is very interesting! Thanks, Pierre. Elden Gatwood

Elden, Where would I find Darnaby's kit building suggestions? I have one of those to build and need all the help I can get. Fenton Wells elden.j.gatwood@...> wrote: -- Fenton Wells 3047

Lest I go on for hours, I'll restrict myself to 2 onlist; Sylvan's Canadian Slabside hoppers NorWest's CC&F tankcar. The tankcar is almost unbuildable once Brian Pate had someone else do his casting

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Pierre; What kits are more "challenging"? Elden Gatwood

I built 5 of them. The 1st was the problem car, after that,, they were easy. Dennis. WWW.resinbuilders4u.com

So I've seen now multiple references to the "difficulties" in building the vinegar tank car kit from Sunshine. While it is indeed not a first timer kit, nor is it a simple kit, I feel that it is

John - Will the decals work for earlier schemes as well? Does anything in the kitbash need to be changed if modeling c1946 through to 1953? Thanks - Randy Hammill http://newbritainstation.com

I believe our own Denny Anspach is a veteran of the wars required to build one of the Sunshine cars. SGL If you look on Al's website you will find that Al produced a number of pickle cars, but

Ed wrote: "Builder's photos of 70051 from series 70051-70069 (odd) show the cars were painted black. Stencils were probably white but could also be aluminum." The painting diagrams call for white

Good afternoon: I have two sets of drawings in quarter-inch: H.J. Heinz Pickle Tankcar H.J. Heinz Vinegar Tankcar These drawings are from the Heinz Company and are dated in 1941. Contact me off

Winchester, VA, had three plants making vinegar from apple cider during the era covered by this list. One of them, the Heinz apple cider vinegar plant, was served by the B&O. Standard Brands had an

On the subject of vinigar tanks...for you Southern fans, on the lower half of page 46 of the book "Southern Railway System, a pictorial" by Doug Nuckles and Curt Tillotson Jr. There is a picture of

Operationally speaking, Vinegar production in the steam era was usually associated with Yeast production, vinegar being a byproduct. So if you know of a Fleishman or in later years, Standard Brand's

Another small but noticeable difference may be the vertical ribs. On PS car photos I've seen, the top of the rib is tapered at about a 45 degree angle. There are also different hatch designs, although