I agree about the coarse details, but if I were modeling the D&RGW and needed dozens of them, I might think otherwise. The pictures of the finished model do look nice in the context of a finished

Armand, First select the cars that will service your -on layout- industries. Usually that will be about twice as many cars as you have car spots (for empties in/loads out or vice versa). Second

I remember seeing these cars in an article by Richard H. (I think) about GS gondolas and thinking they looking comparatively massive. especially the longer one. Is it reasonable to say these would

For $65 they are awfully crude. That brake chain (?) looks like it’s a foot thick (yes, I’m exaggerating). Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: STMFC List <STMFC@...> on behalf of

I'm working on those decals... Sheesh, I just posed the initial query less than a week ago! Ted Culotta Speedwitch Media speedwitchmedia@... - www.speedwitchmedia.com Blog:

I like the detail, but hate the "printed on" grabs and brake gear. I emailed the seller to inquire about running them sans those details as the rest looks quite good. Ted Culotta

The flat car with the 3 wooden tubs is a Santa Fe water car. Water cars of this type lasted into the 1930s and perhaps longer. Water was hauled for company service - extra gangs - etc. Metal tank

Florida East Coast shipped fresh water into the Keys, ca 1912, in cars that looked very much like this. See Bramson, "Speedway to Sunshine", p 90. (Later on, conventional tank cars were used: same

Wine was extensively shipped in conventional tank cars as early as 1910. These wooden tubs seem to me most unlikely to be in use for that purpose. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press,

I have seen wine tanks that look like that. Perhaps its a shipment of them. Bob Kessler

I have seen wine tanks that look like that. Perhaps its a shipment of them. Bob Kessler

Hey, those look pretty good. I have the DRGW’s own blueprints for the 1922 car and having done most of the work to put it into a 3d mesh considered the notion of 3d printing it. It’s kinda

If Tim Gilbert were still with us he’d whip out his set of ICC Blue Books and write 14 pages in one paragraph telling us about steel vs. wood, etc. etc. etc., no doubt managing to toss in ton miles

It is a nice looking car in the photos. I am tempted to buy one. Has anyone on this list tried these? I wonder if this (3D printing) is the future of modeling, replacing resin casting. I've heard it

EARLY WINE CARS MAYBE TOM CATALDO -- Thomas j Cataldo

The photo was taken in Fort Madison IA, between 1936-38 according to the captions under the photo. It looks an early oil tank car, but oil shipments had shifted to horizontal tanks long before the

Just a WAG...........but the Arrowhead Water Company had quite a fleet of water cars for hauling "Mountain Spring" Arrowhead water from up the mountains above San Bernardino to their bottling plant on

Lettering is not clear, but it could be a car with tubs to carry potable water for use in an extra gang outfit of camp cars. This type of water car used to be fairly common. Cars could have one, two,

Pickle car? Looks rather like the old Tyco car.

Hello Group, I happened across this seller on Ebay, offering HO scale 3D printed 42' and 46' Rio Grande GS gondolas. Here's a