An old trick is to take some plastic sprue and heat it over a open flame or a soldering iron As it starts to melt pull on the end and stretch it thin. Cut it in the center and push it in the hole

Brian, I have a very useful technique for plugging holes on styrene bodies. 1st step is to place a stretched piece of scotch tape over the hole's opening. 2nd is to use Ace Hardware 2-ton epoxy and

Brian Carlson asked: "I’m working on an Intermountain box car and I need to plug some of the holes in the body to re-detail it. I have found I don’t have an appropriate diameter styrene rod. What

... or how about the ties to the right of the car with round "corners" ... I'm certain they held in the ballast well ... LOL.

Brian, I usually use .035, sometimes 1/16 Joe Binish

I’m working on an Intermountain box car and I need to plug some of the holes in the body to re-detail it. I have found I don’t have an appropriate diameter styrene rod. What I have is too small.

bob: it boils down to semantics, the MCB had their own definition, you hsve to remember this was a transistory period from single sheat to double sheat and an increase of weight and stress mel perry

Yes, I originally was attracted to that. This photo is now part of my presentation on chalk markings. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

So you are saying "pocket coupler", as stenciled on the car, is the same as "coupler pocket"? Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Well, I have to disagree on the CPR car. The CPR cars (built in the 23XXXX series; many re-built and renumbered by Clark's era) used hat section trusses, not Zs used on the Accurail car. A closer

I imagine that installing ladders took fewer man hours than attaching the individual grab irons, especially when a car was overhauled with new siding, etc. Whether ladders or grabs, it could depend

Bob There were full size MCB couplers used on standard Gage equipment as well as 3/4 size that were popular with narrow Gage in intra-plant rr's. The full size MCB couplers were somewhat smaller than

It will look great when you give it The Doggett Weathering magic On Saturday, December 7, 2019, 07:48:23 AM CST, Paul Doggett via Groups.Io

what is interesting, is the "don't load" (if that), one would assume that this car should have been red tagged? mel perry

Stencil: Heavy Repairs This is Illinois Central refrigerator car 93347. This car was built in 1916. A stencil above the sill and to the left of the door reads, "Heavy Repairs McComb

When did the Bangor and Aroostook start applying the three color State of Maine scheme to their 1932 ARA boxcars? Thanks Gene Deimling -- Gene Deimling El Dorado Hills, CA

Interesting that the truck on RI 40921 is a style in which the lower truss members join the journal box near its bottom edge rather than higher up as on later double truss cast sideframes. There is

Hello Bob and Everyone... I see no one provides definitive information about this interesting question. Perhaps because no such rule occurred. I will take a stab at a non-definitive and inferential

Photo: Buffalo. Rochester & Pittsburgh Ry Box Car In the lower right hand corner of this 1909 boxcar is a stencil that reads "M. C. B. Pocket Coupler". Is "M.C.B" Master Car Builders and what is a

Here are a couple of examples of the plain block lettering that replaced the RR Roman versions on cars repainted, although a lot of cars probably didn't ever get this scheme. The 40xxx series were