What's all this talk about reweighing tank cars? As far as I know there was no requirement to reweigh tank cars. The gallonage was the only number that shippers cared about, or were charged

Kadee trucks, and especially Kadee HGC trucks, are wonderful looking andthe HGC trucks also perform wonderfully - BUT because of the peculiar Kadee bolsters,the trucks really have limited utility. For

Steve Sandifer said: The SC&F cars has two compartments of just over 3000 gal each. However, it looks like a 10K tank in overall size. Wait a minute! I don't know what you're comparing to, but that's

Product: GATC 1917-design 8000 Gallon Non-Insulated Tank Car Scale: HO Scale 1:87.1 Truck: Tangent 50-Ton Cast Steel Spring Plank Truck Wheels: CNC-Machined 33″ Flat Back Wheels Undecorated

David-- Thanks for your reply. I'll have a look for one of these kits. The CN, CV, and GTW cars differed between roads as to which panels were used on a car side, and in the case of CV cars, some

Steve: Yes I was wondering. In addition to the 1936 tariff book, which lists these road numbers as 10,000 gallon cars, there were no 702xxx or 703xx cars in either the 1926 or 1930 ORERs. This

I would get the AB brake version and see about changing thereweigh date. The 1958 one is a bit curious, anyway, although there isundoubtedly photo evidence to support it. UTLX did a lot of its AB

Steve and Group: Because they are, incongruously, listed by Bowser as "70 ton AAR ", some folks may not realize that their 74277 truck (74286 for frame only) is a perfect match for the PRR 2D-F8 (as

I had a chance totalk to Sam Clarke at Kadee yesterday at Trainfest. I asked about gettingthe ARA Type Y (PRR 2D-F8) made in the new HGC compound sideframes, rather thatthe open spring look. He

Clark, modelers might want the car lettered differentlyand someone mentioned Sinclair and that Black Cat had the decals. Maybethey want to spend their kit time on resin kits! gary laakso south of

I model October 1955, 2+ years after K Brakes were banned. No UTLX car YET, for my time period. No General American at all YET. Bill Welch

The lettering on the Tangent cars is outstanding. I understand some wantingan undec kit, but why would someone want an undec RTR car? Justcurious. ClarkPropst Mason City Iowa

Beautiful cars. And the lettering on the 1920+ UTLX matches the builder's photo very well. The trucks are upgraded on the model though to a 50 ton truck making the cars accurate for my 1945 era

Tim, I knew you, as are most of the people on this great group are in that 'other' scale, so I was just having a bit of fun with you. It's so nice to have such fantastic companies producing such a

Bruce, My mistake. I looked all over the website, but couldn't find that info on the undecorated RTR car. Maybe they will come out with a version of each. Other options include dome heights and

Scott, Yeah, but… for the undec RTR, http://www.tangentscalemodels.com/product/undecorated-rtr-gatc-1917-design-8000-gallon-tank-car/ it doesn’t show or say if it has K or AB brakes… so your

Nelson, On the website: http://www.tangentscalemodels.com/general-american-8000-gallon-1917-design-radial-course-tank-car/ Click on the picture box, on the right side of the page, for the model

Is there a known dimension for welded panel widths of the 50' PS-1? I have found two different panel counts on various PS-1s and was curious if the dimensions are known. Based upon my measurements, it

I haven’t seen any information on which type of brakes are on the painted undecorated RTR car, i.e. KC or AB. Anybody know? Nelson Moyer

PRR did a one-off Gla rebuild (Glf) and Stan Rydarowicz made a kit for it at one time. That would be the closest commercial match to the CN/GTW/CV cars. Otherwise, you're on your own for modifying a