Although I have not compared them with Dick's new Microscale sets (which are more complete and certainly easier to use) to Champ's old PFE super-set, I used the Champ set to

Hi, I don't remember ever seeing any flat car deck (from any RR) that wasn't "weathered wood" (grey+brown tones) in color ... both in real life and in photos. Although it is certainly possible

Thanks, but the blade would take a lot of surgery, and after that, the compound curves still wouldn’t look quite right. Nelson Moyer

You may want to take a look at the old Rivarossi snow plow/gondola. They are available on ebay (

Getting the compound parabolic curve right would be a challenge. Much easier for a person skilled with SketchUp to import photos and create a drawing suitable for 3D printing. The blades were mounted

Jim as I read your treatise on researching NP reefers, I thought of the same issues with tracing Swift reefers, and my own limited study with M&StL reefers. The word lease jumps out, as there seems to

Gary and all, I’ve uploaded the correct PDF for the first part of the kit instructions. You may want to open that kit Extras page and hit refresh before clicking on the part 1 link to download

The pages with the kit construction, pp 2-7, did not make the kit instructions pdf. Gary Laakso

We have an update on the Resin Car Works Santa Fe Whalebelly boxcar kits. Kit instructions have been posted, too. The update is the latest Resin Car Works blog post.

Here's an earlier version of a water tube boiler on a flat car, from Saginaw, Michigan in 1895. The Flint & Pere Marquette was one of the predecessors to the Pere Marquette, which owned the second

Hi Johannes Thank you. Paul

Hello Paul, nice build. Yes, the Sunshine PFEs seem to be great kits (I am no expert though), I still have about 20 different waiting to be finished for a much larger PFE train. Johannes Modeling

Brian Leppert wrote : I've spent too much time trying to research NP wood reefers and really wish someone else would do the job. The roster changed over time. I live here in St. Paul, MN.

Interesting end. 9-7, I don't remember seeing this end. Greg Martin Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

After looking thru a bunch of freight guides, Milw had some very similar plows. These appear to have about a 6-7 foot front radius and about a 2-3 foot radius at the exit. Milw drawings are available

Hi- I am reminded that back in the late 1980s, while riding the OP&E steam train (The Emperor of the North" railroad), there was a nice condition wood sided NP reefer along side of the tracks shortly

Yeah, that's the image you posted a couple days ago, and no, I don't see them either. As dark as the underframe is, I would expect to see the silhouette of the crossbearer cover plate and its rivets

That appears to be the same underframe as in the photo of 94631 that Aaron posted a couple pages back. Might I suggest that this is also a re-built/re-numbered car? You'll notice that these cars with

I was hoping somebody would say Milwaukee or Rock Island or MoPac or CNW. Mark

GN had identical blades as far as I can determine. Maybe the GN faithful will confirm that assertion? Nelson Moyer