Thanks for all your kind comments & advizes. Q wasn't about R-40-10 & 23, I use both IM kits combined to assemble a R-40-14 (with a set of DE1001 4/4 ends). The suggested Equipco wheel by Kadee comes

A little search for my time frame (1934) and my geography (east coast) reveals the “Minerals Handbook of 1935” with statistics and facts like: a little less than half of the asphalt petroleum was

In the following post, I show a Shell Oil car. Tony

Well Tony, you just gave me a nice project to get underway! IsWestern Asphalt the only line this project would apply to or are there otherasphalt suppliers? Jerry Michels

Thanks for sharing this Tony. With the Glow/Tichy decals, I have do something with one of my Undecorated Type 21 Insulated kits purchased when L-L first issued the 10K insulated kits. Bill Welch

Bob Chaparro wrote: I will show modeling of the caked-on asphalt in a following post. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Hi Mike, When the Train Miniature cars first came out around 1968 many of us at the MIT model railroad club were happy to have them as an alternate to the Athearn "Blue Box" kits and the

Steve Details West produced two different single plug door box cars. One has anearly Youngstown style door, 10'0", while the other has a later styleindented door that was 9'9" wide. While insulated

Guys, Just a note to remind you that ALL messages NOT pertaining to steam era [ by definition, 1900-1960 inclusive ] freight cars are out of scope. Particularly, messages [ again, by definition ],

Perhaps some carefully applied white glue that could be painted an oily black after it has set up. Pat Wade Santa Barbara, CA

It would seem that the criteria would be something that would be thin, runny, set up hard, and accept paint. My first thought without actually trying it would be the thinnest grade of ACC. Perhaps a

Corn meal, fish aquarium sand, have used both. Use white glue thinned over the corn meal or sand same method as ballast. Just use the glue sparingly. The paint. Rich Orr

This is an interesting project. Does anyone have a suggestion as to how to model the caked-on asphalt as seen on the prototype: http://tinyurl.com/gm9yxqy Thanks. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Tony, Yes, second edition, and I missed it. I only looked at the first section with the wooden cars, whose brake wheels are covered in a footnote. (Sigh!). However, Dick Harley's

Like many of you, I've had bad experiences with the PO on most of the points made in the previous posts. I now mark every package I send "FRAGILE" in big red letters and circled with a black marker

I don't know where Richard Hendrickson got his data for the RMJ articles or whether the data got scrambled before publication, but as Tim O'Connor pointed out, there are discrepancies between what

Mike I have Train Miniature ( TM) cars that were painted and lettered for my private name railroad the Minneapolis & Northland Railroad Company years ago and are still running in ops sessions each

Far be it from me to try and even attempt to moderate this great group, and that isn't my intent, but I do agree with Schuyler, this is off topic, so I won't post further, but Tony, in my first

Mike Calo asked: "I have two Train Miniature freight cars - 40' Morrell Meats and 40' CNW stock car - that have horn hook couplers. I want to switch them over to Kadee, but the Kadee conversion sheet

I made that conversion ages ago and did it with Kadee5s, since Kadee #148 had not been invented at that time. gary laakso south of Mike Brock