Richard Townsend wrote: I have a copy of Uniform Freight Classification No. 8, 1966, and it contains no such item description. Of course that's 40 years later. Tony Thompson Editor,

Tom, There was an article published in RMC in February of 2000 about converting the Bowser GS intop a GSh. Many of the detail improvements would apply to a straight GS. More details about the

Does anyone have or know of an article to improve the detail on the Bowser Pennsy GS gon. I understand the hand brake location is wrong for 1950 period-anything else? Were they still numbered in the

Eric, I don't know if this relates to your question, but I have compiled ACF paint specs from original bills of materials for 5 lot numbers of PQX or PQCX tank cars built from 1936 to 1941. All are

I'm looking at a January 1923 freight bill (not a waybill) showing Denver's Mine & Smelter Supply Co. as shipper of "37 SHEET IRON SLW" that were shipped in a C&S GS gon #16954 to Cresson &

Hello Armand, For good airbrush coverage with yellow paint, use a light gray undercoat. I use Polly Scale's Undercoat Light Gray (who'd a thunk it?) under yellows and also under reds, even most

Hi Eric, Here's a B&W 1954 shot of PQX 807 w/ silicate of soda lettering: http://cdm1819-01.cdmhost.com/cdm/singleitem/collection/p1819coll7/id/282/rec/8 Until your post I never questioned my

Chet- Yes, and thank you for that. I am not sure that the car in the St.Louis PM is the BLI car; when I saw the posting I looked at my artwork and the font on the model seems to be a serif one and

Would anyone know if Philadelphia Quartz tank cars lettered their cars in different colors according to the contents? For example, cars lettered " SOLUBLE SILICATES " seem to be in Yellow lettering

Jason, This car is, or was, offered by Broadway Limited. It is a six car set, BLI 1617. I believe it was one of the models that belonged to Ted Richardson. The car was one of 700 that was leased,

Don Accupaint made a primer for brass and resin -- it works better than straight AP on resin. I've also sprayed AP over Scalecoat I primer (MofW gray) without problems. T im O'

Don Valentine sent the below advertising/selling message to the STMFC yesterday...Thursday...not within the advertising/selling period on the STMFC of Friday noon until Sat midnight, EST. Note the

Haven't done much painting of late but always had decent results with Scalecoat I, not II, which I have not used nearly as much. Can't say how it works on resin models buy on styrene I still perfer

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Guys,Thanks for all the suggestions.I have another,yet to be built, resin reefer on the bench right now.I'll let you know how it turns out.Armand Premo

Hi to all. I hope this doesn't land me in moderator jail Mike, strictly speaking this is not a freight car but it is used to carry freight on a passenger train so I am hoping the judge will let me

Armand I have been custom painting models for others for some time now and got a solution to this problem by accident when I had to repaint my house would you believe. I was trying to cover some

Hi guys. Sorry I can't speak from experience on any modern paints, back in the days I did lot of painting using the early, lacquer bases Floquil and the standard Scale Coat paints. I never had any

Armand, Neither do I, especially with Poly Scale white, even on gray plastic. A several light coats seems to be better than a couple of heavy coats. The toughest application is ModelFlex in any

Accupaint yellow simply does not cover well, even over the gray Accupaint primer to be used on brass. The yellow nose on ERIE F-units is particularly aggravating. SGL From: