It's a non-issue. I just dug in the trash and found one of the casting fill tube stubs I remove from Resin Car Works reefer, boxcar and auto car bodies after demolding. Photo attached. I snap these

Yes. The correct name is "Safkar", made by the Irving Iron Works Co., Long Island City, NY. The open grid is formed by alternating straight and zigzag bars, all running longitudinally, riveted

I had a concern with several of the early one piece bodies in that there was a groove between the send and the sides. This would happen with flat kits if the ends of the sides and the back of the

I have assembled many one piece body kits and have many still in kit form. I have never seen one with a "big blob of resin on the underside of the roof." Bill Welch

My answer: nothing. I've only recently started to encounter one-piece bodies due to my backlog, and frankly I welcome them. I've actually sold some flat kits when a different manufacturer made a

A quick question for the resin kit builders out there. Most of the kit manufacturers nowadays are using one-piece bodies for box cars, rather than flat wall pieces. In many ways I view this as a

I am finding the bit of "scope creep" that was added to the first release last night, the CGW, L&N and PM/C&O auto boxcars, to be very welcome. See

Shipping Fish Where there any rules restricting refrigerator cars to fresh fish loads once they had been used to ship fresh fish? Or did this depend on how the fist were packaged? Thanks. Bob

Not sure what Thunderbird 38 is? My setting is automatic update. Under help it says my "version?" is 68.3.1 (32 bit) -- Jon MillerFor me time stopped in 1941Digitrax

Win10, paint.net (set for all JPGs), Thunderbird for email (regular size JPGs seems to have no problem from Thunderbird but lately I have been getting some marked low res. These

Doubtful. More likely file associations & actions within yourmail client, browser and PC/Mac. Esp. true when using web cliente-mail (such as gmail via Firefox - Firefox & Gmail esp. do notalways

Yes, it looks really good! Maybe an odd question here: When the black car cement was applied, would the galvanized running board and corner platforms not be on the car, but installed after the car

I could see a few new railroad modeling uses for those makeup swabs. Larger than the largest tiny paint microbrushes for adjusting weathering powders and not as clumsy as using the standard bathroom

Bill, Here are a pair of Army crawler cranes loaded onto a flat car. Photo is from the US Signal Corps Archive, Port of Embarkation, Norfolk, Va. It is important to note that many of the photos

Lester, the Bx 48 looks very nice. I like the black roof and galvanized running board. Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

My go to color for the past two years is to use a spray can of Tamiya Red Oxide primer. After that it it is tint washes of Vallejo paints brush applied till I get the shade I want for a specific car.

I still can't open these but if I transfer to the desktop and then open it works. Might have something to do with the low res version. -- Jon MillerFor me time stopped in

While looking for Bucyrus cranes on flat cars, I re-discovered the attached photo of L&N MoW flat 41839 in a pile driver outfit 5-17-70 at Atlanta. (low res version attached) It is from the Southern

Me too.

Nice job Les. Third time is the charm! Joe Binish