Armand, How early? Ben has sort of . . . uh . . . covered this. (Ducking for cover!) Or are you thinking post-WWII? Eastern Car Works used to offer an NYC kit, an Enterprise design

Armand Premo wrote: "Other than my typo, what is odd about it Ben?" Go back and read my post. My point is there just weren't many early NYCS covered hoppers. 311 cars in the greater NYCS car fleet

Other than my typo,what is odd about it Ben?Checking wheel reports I found that Rutland railroders used "H" for all hoppers including covered hoppers.Are there any,many,kits for these cars? Armand

Armand Premo wrote: "Conspicuous by their absence are models of earlier NYC covered hoppers." This is an odd statement - of all the common NYCS freight car models needed by transition-era modelers,

Jim, Do you really want the boxes I searched? I'd think you'd rather have the ones that bore fruit. Although there are lots of varieties of fruit in that forest of information. I will post a

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Conspicious by their absence are models of earlier NYC covered hoppers.Armand Premo

We have a box of documents that has quite a bit of material about MAIN trains operating on the MILW Coast Division during the demobilzation period following the end of WWII. Some of the documents

John; a very interesting posting. What years were you searching for your MAIN info? Can you pass on the box numbers within RG 336 that you searched ? Thanks. (I plan to visit in the near future

Not otherwise Specified Howard Garner

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I'm working on a short piece for my RR historical society on the GBW's 40' PS-1 boxcar fleet. I'd like to at least touch on some of the available commercial model choices in various scales at the end

In a tool clinic years ago I was introduced to a simpleacrylic stand for holding nail polish bottles at an angle. The clinicianrecommended this for round solvent bottles so I manned-up and walked into

I can and have knocked over the old square Testor's bottles. The solution for me was to cut a 4" square of 1/4 acrylic, gluing a 2" long piece of 1 1/2" ABS pipe to it vertically in the centre. The

Bill Welch wrote: ' AMEN, AMEN, AMEN" 'Anyone have any of the old square squat jars they want to pass on?" No, too valuable, even if bottle brushes attached to cap have dissolved due to age. My

I realize this isn’t strictly about freight cars (OK, freight car run on track, right?), but I just found out that Micro Engineering has fixed the molds and is just now starting to deliver HO code

I use Tamiya Extra Thin Cement. Green cap in a square glass bottle, available at Hobbytown USA. It stays liquid longer than lacquer thinner which is what I’ve used for several years. Jim

Have you been wondering about using Future floor wax asa gloss coat on your models? The Resin Car Works blog has a feature that mayanswer some of your questions about this product. Check it

Ed--I heartily agree with John--Tamiya Extra Thin. It comes in a tip resistant square bottle like Testor's. It also has the most useful applicator brush I have ever used. Very fine tip which makes it

Hi Ed, I think I've used them all over the last 40 years. I prefer Tamiya the best and use it exclusively. Try Tamiya 87038 Extra Thin Cement Glue with the green top. I accidentally left the lid off