I acquired a quantity of 1/16” thick lead sheet from the medical center where I work. You can get it from https://www.mcmaster.com/#lead-sheets/=1a3179s Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: STMFC

Denny Anspach asked: "How do listers non-destructively add needed weight to finished house cars, when no weight was added originally?" 1. Switch out plastic trucks with metal trucks. 2. Conceal weight

How do listers non-destructively add needed weight to finished house cars, when no weight was added originally? Denny Denny S. Anspach, MD Sacramento, CA 95864

John T&NO (later SP), ACL, Wabash (later KO&G), GM&O, NYC G-50-17 TNO series 42450-42649 blt 1944 PRESSED STEEL CAR (200) G-50-19 TNO series 42650-42849 blt 1946 RALSTON STEEL CAR (200) G-50-19 TNO

Nice film. Does anyone know how many, if any, freight cars belonging to U.S. railroads were impounded in Cuba after the trade embargo was instituted? It makes one wonder if any such cars are still

Home printed, white decals are a real thing. Ignore Alps, ignore Rail Graphics (which is closing in a month anyway). Go directly here: https://www.ghost-white-toner.com/?lang=en I had a couple of sets

I think the key to the problem was mentioned several pages of messages back... The big problem with short run printing of decals is finding a system that can print white, since most computer printers

---In STMFC@..., <b.hom@...> wrote : No. These are not dry transfers, but form of waterslide decal where the printed lettering is printed on the underside of the carrier film. The decal is wetted,

I've posted a short summary of RPM Chicagoland on the Resin Car Works blog. It is impossible to catch everything and I know I missed a new product or two. Consider this as just one person's view of

This is pushing the group time frame, but sometime between 1958 and 1963, there was a proposal by the CNW mechanical department to rebuild some of their war emergency boxcars into covered hoppers. To

I would agree with Fred. As I said in my first message, I have two sets of the SP Tank Car decals (same lettering on both): one from Jerry Glow, the other from Tichy. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME. The

Here is a publicity film about West India Fruit with many steam freight cars in view at various points in the film. I have to wonder how many of the vehicles seen ares still in

All scales? I see HO and S offered. Not sure I want to know what they'd cost in 1:48. Jack Mullen

I used this process on 12 of the W&R DRGW gondolas with no problems encountered, though it was just the car numbers being applied. Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

Bill Pardie wrote: "Should this process prove to be viable I don't think that the decal manufacturers would be receptive to converting." Many modelers are already reluctant to attempt decaling. A

Chuck Peck wrote: "Would these reverse print decals be something similar to the pressure setting transfers formerly offered by Campbell Road? I had better luck getting straight stripes with those

Would these reverse print decals be something similar to the pressure setting transfers formerly offered by Campbell Road? I had better luck getting straight stripes with those transfers than I

It is disappointing to hesr of the troubles with the revrrse print decsls. I checed with my friend and this process was used on his lstest project (Alco PAs for Southern Pacific). Of course this

Just in case it wasn’t entirely obvious to everyone, it should be noted that the car shown in the photo is not a boxcar, and not one of the cars with hopper bottoms. This is most immediately

Yes but I took the photo before I had pricked holes in decals and done a final settling. Bill Welch