Hello- I have all of the TMW trucks available for purchase. Please note, that after a long wait, Tahoe trucks are again available with semiscale wheels The following are available with semiscale code

Morning all. The underframe for the next kit from Yarmouth Model Works is done and I'm very pleased. You can see a photo on my blog, http://elgincarshops.blogspot.ca/ It's a slight departure from the

Tony Thompson writes: "Until SP bought new cabooses in 1961 with oil stoves, all caboose stoves on the system burned coal; so did most section houses, sand houses, depots, and other structures with

Tim O'Connor wrote: Excellent point, Tim, so all he needs to do is operate his G-scale reefers exclusively on a layout INSIDE a school bus . . . next time I'm at Brock's layout, I will have to

Yes but Tony, when that fellow was looking at the reefers back then,he may actually have been INSIDE a school bus -- and the reflected lightfrom the bus caused the reefers to appear to be yellow! I

Speaking of box cars ends, from the early 1950's on a very common variant was that the 3rd rib up from the middle of the end had a straight bottom edge. I've seen this on cars from various builders,

Tony Thompson writes: "Until SP bought new cabooses in 1961 with oil stoves, all caboose stoves on the system burned coal; so did most section houses, sand houses, depots, and other structures

I appreciated all of the varying responses to my inquiry on matching prepainted freight car models. Pat's article in Volume 3 of the RPC CYC was very helpful. Incidently Pat also did an article in

Tony, I'm in agreement with you on this however I should porbably have noted that the vast majority of my work is for rail cars from the 50's and early 60's. This is the era most often modeled by my

I'm on travel so I don't have my book available but there is a table of photo confirmed stencils against each lot in the book Roger Hinman

Mike Brock wrote: Until SP bought new cabooses in 1961 with oil stoves, all caboose stoves on the system burned coal; so did most section houses, sand houses, depots, and other structures with

If ya really want to start a heated discussion about paint mixing, ask about the “correct” N&W diesel, passenger car and caboose blue! While this blue is post-1960, it proves that colors were

Ben, many, many, thanks. Given I intend to model fall 1953, (looking at the month after I look at crop and weather reports for fall 1953 for my modeled area) you provided me with EXACTLY the

I would state that I think the belief of this (in thosetimes) was accurate. Researching and having just presented on NP reefer traffic,this thought was held by the early engineers of my studied

James Dick asked: "Could you however put a better dating (by decade, by year if possible) on the statement in your last paragraph of: 'The Accurail car represents cars with late R+3/4 improved

Tim O'Connor notes: "Be mindful that 'later in the year' the sun in Wyoming is lower and so you are seeing sunlight passed through much more atmosphere -- this lowers the temperature of the light

Tim O'Connor says: "I get your point about reflected light but it's not necessary to shine colored lights on our layouts. I've seen the red rock scenery on your layout so my guess is that a good

On 7/19/2014 10:08 AM, pullmanboss@... [STMFC] wrote: Tom, I hope you find someone there, but as the town apparently is owned by two Vietnamese men (according to

Ben, this no doubt has been covered on this list prior so forgiveness is asked if you are repeating yourself. Could you however put a better dating (by decade, by year if possible) on

Jim Betz wrote: When people make this point, I'm reminded of the time I looked at a modeler's paint job on a G scale reefer, lettered for PFE in the 1946-49 scheme with color UP emblems on each