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

This photo is from the Barringer Library, probably pre-1940: https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/12293135473/in/dateposted/ Notice the freight car to the left. It appears to

I used the 8K acid tank. Jim

Yes, please. I am a novice at such and need to build a depot!

Jim Which Tangent tank car frame did you use? Tim O'Connor

The videographers who shot the layout video are looking for other related videos from me. I have been doing SketchUp/3D printing clinics for a couple of years now at regional and national NMRA

That's one strategy. Another is to maintain an off-layout"stage" of extra cars and figure out how to randomize the use of all of the cars, so youdon't have the same cars all the time on the

Thanks George. No, the free version of SketchUp in still available. But they don’t make it easy to find it. Go to my website at www.yosemitevalleyrr.com and click on Clinics. My clinic

I would like to see a video for others can get started in 3d train modeling jack you know how can you post a you tube video? -- Thomas j Cataldo

Jack, What an amazing layout. The Scenery is outstanding. I was impressed that all the Structures appear to actually be on foundations or timbers. I can say that for your modeling of freight cars and

I had far too many freight cars when I finished building my layout. I measured each siding, including the yard tracks and figured out how many forty-foot cars would fit onto those tracks. Then I

Armand, Unless I am mistaken, you have a very nice collection of Rutland wheel reports / conductor’s books. So perhaps your problem is really one of “how do I selectively