Intermountain is one of his show's sponsors. That might have something to do with it. Bill Hirt

I never use Kadee wheels as replacements for wheelsets, but I have decided to keep the 0.088 wheels that come in the new HGC trucks. I have roll tested them, and they are a HUGE

Thanks Denny and Todd. Interesting comment on the axle length since I was testing reboxx wheels in the kadee ASF A-3RC truck and the best fitting length was 1.030 or so. Brian J. Carlson

Fenton Wells wrote: "Didn’t Sunshine make the door for their EJ&E mini kit? Might want to find one of those and copy it in resin." It had better be a really good door, as going through the trouble

Didn’t Sunshine make the door for their EJ&E mini kit? Might want to find one of those and copy it in resin Fenton

Ben, When I opened this Westerfield page I noticed the diagonal brace on the models and went elsewhere. Had I scrolled down, I would have seen other examples without the brace. (Oy veh!) Thanks for

Garth Groff asked: "An acquaintance sent me this attached photo taken at ACF's Berwick plant in 1946. Our shared interest is the unusual AC&F "critter". Your interest is more likely to be the unusual

Car is the early Standard Steel Car channel-side design without a separate end sill. David Thompson

Friends, An acquaintance sent me this attached photo taken at ACF's Berwick plant in 1946. Our shared interest is the unusual AC&F "critter". Your interest is more likely to be the unusual hopper car

I find the Kadee 88 wheels to be excellent in many ways, not excluding appearance and quality assurance as to gauge, etc. The blackening will not leave residue on the rails. Shining the treads

I have had some experience with Lionel hot stamping their lettering. I am a proud owner of an AB set of their HO T&P Alco FA's. I intended to convert them to GN. I had to turn them into undecs. I

Yup, still coated black. I decided to try some of Kadee's code 88 wheel sets, but I don't have an operating layout at the moment, so I can't comment on whether or not the wheels still deposit 'stuff'

According to Roger Hindman’s MDT book, NRC 20079 (pictured in Jim King’s post), was one of 200 cars built by Pacific Car and Foundry for MDT and NRC in 1958 (Lot 571, some, perhaps all, leased to

I am thinking of trying out some of the above to replace some of the code 110 wheels in my Kadee trucks. Are they the same blackish metal as the code 110 wheels?. The wheel treads are not

Thanks for all the information, I will probably end up scratchbuilding them as I was going to do the EJ&E cars like one of the respondents noted what he had done. I have made a number of Superior

I see Ken Patterson is gushing over the latest InterMountain offerings, including the less-than-perfect PFE reefers, on his "What's Neat This Week in Model Railroading" Show

Bruce, Stan offered many castings that were NOT complete kits - they were just kitbashing parts. One of the items he offered was the "IC reefer door" intended to

I was also going to mention Stan - he offered a huge variety of 'kitbash' kits. The PFE R-40-27 also had these plug+swing doors but differed in many respects

Well I stand, um, informed, I guess. That's a really narrow sliding plug door. Without looking at any source such as an ORER, I'll bet the total door width is six feet, with the slider being about

I find it interesting how there is a ladder on the side sill by the door. How common was that? Dave Nelson