This photo is from the Norfolk Southern Archive. The Archive is a collection of company photos from Norfolk Southern and its legacy railroads on this

Ben/Doug, Thank you for the info. I've looked around on line to try to find New England Rail Serv. but no luck so far. I hope Don Valentine reads these messages. Thanks again, Dave Lawler

A big thank you to Frank Hodina for the use of his patterns. Aaron Gjermundson

Information from Chris Atkins... I just wanted to let everyone know that thanks to Jim Ruffing and Aaron Gjermundson and others on the NPRHA Modeling Committee, the NPHRA Company Store has stock in

Ed, Is there a chance your samples were scanned in black and white? This would remove the olive cast. I am suspicious because doing image work on the scan results in all colors having the exact same

Dave that would be New England Rail Service / Standard Car Co. Owner is Don Valentine, a member of this group, who just posted a few days ago. He would be your best source of information. Doug

Dave Lawler asked: "I recently read a James Six blog on weathering where he showed an example of a door and a half conversion on an Accurail SS box car. The company he mentioned that made the add-on

Good day all, I recently read a James Six blog on weathering where he showed an example of a door and a half conversion on an Accurail SS box car. The company he mentioned that made the add-on half

Group, Thank you to everybody for the replies. I was not aware of the RMJ article. Thanks also to Ed Hawkins for the scans of the actual color chips and others for their insight into the problems of

This can be viewed online at the Train Life site. http://magazine.trainlife.com/rmj_1991_10/ Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

If you can, get a copy of the October 1991 Railmodel Journal. The esteemed author, beginning on page 10, described mixes he developed for various prototypes. While some of the paints he used are no

I have used a gray called SP Lettering Gray, available from more thane one model paint supplier. This is a mid-tone gray that looks good under a weathering coat of cement color. Jim

Back in the 1960's I worked as a color matcher for a major paint supplier, and one of the colors I was asked to match was a gray for Western Maryland covered hoppers.The color standard the WM used for

One of my duties at the rapid prototyping (3D printing) company where I spent the last 21 years of my work life was developing pigment and dye recipes so our cast resin parts would match customers'

Eric, I don’t know if this will be of any help, but here goes. About 30 years ago I obtained permission from ACF to cut slivers from larger paint samples that are glued to the inside covers of bill

I use Spring Mills Depot Gray from the B&O Covered hopper as my base. Dale Florence

I used to use Floquil Gray Primer for my covered hoppers, now I alternate between Scalecoat II UP Covered Hopper Gray and Maintenance of Way Gray. Rick Jeswionowski

The N-G ratios are for fleets of cars they don’t get into the individual makeup of the cars within the fleet numbers. I touched on my approach to this aspect back when I did my presentations in

Eric Lombard, Ray Breyer and Larry Ostesh have done a lot of research along these lines with regards to boxcars which can be found in the files section of this list. Such as

To carry ratios a bit further would be the ratio of wood to steel freight cars per era one is modeling.Armand Premo