Bill just save the bolster/saddle and center sill and scratch build the rest of the frame. :-D Once you start to remove the cast running boards, that's all you'll be left with.

I have to admit whenever I see a comment like ". . . it's pretty much an exact match to the Red Caboose model if you replace the running boards with open-grid steel. Plano makes an etched metal set

In 1920, UTLX purchased 1000 tank cars from General American to the GATC 1917 design, which is the Tangent car. Originally, these cars were numbered 70000 – 70999 as the beginning of the 7xxxx

Group, Some photos of the CB&Q XM-30 boxcar have a placard on the door with Burlington Route. Does this have a black background or car color background? Thanks Chuck Cover Santa Fe, NM

It's an early tank car body - reminds me of very early "common standard" tank cars and also some Santa Fe tank cars. I've attached Tom Madden's ATSF Tk-G-5 resin tank model for

Photos: NP Boxcars A circa 1915 photo from the Washington State Historical Society: http://www.washingtonhistory.org/imu/api/file/1914 Description: "View of the Sperry Flour Company mill in

Garth I don't know about any lamentations... but it's pretty much an exact match to the Red Caboose model if you replace the running boards with open-grid steel. Plano

Steve Hile: I apologize for my ignorance about tank cars. I'm not following where the recently re-released Tangent GATC car fits in the summary UTLX roster you posted above. Could you advise,

Video: Steam Was Great On The Nickel Plate Courtesy of the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society, here is a ten minute video from 1958: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITq8_EuOHxw This is only a

Alex Unfortunately he died on Penn station, a sad lose to his family obviously but also a sad loss to preservation the scrappers got som good locomotives. Paul Doggett. England

Mr. Paulsen Spence. Search Railway Preservation News, then search The (Once) Paulsen Spence Collection. The final entry is my post dated 2013. I recall what I was told by Mr. Spence's last Master

For those who still would like to use Floquil and Polly Scale, I found that Narrow Gauge Modeling Company sells unopened bottles. I recently purchased several bottles from them and they were

Drat. Should be ACF Type 27 not 29. Sorry.

Garth is correct, I did overlook a couple of line items, which I will add below in Red. Thanks, Steve Hile

K4 is and Ebay Store...here is the link https://www.ebay.com/str/k4supplycompany?rt=nc&_oac=1 Lots of decals. Jim Brewer

Sometimes my brain gets that way Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

Hi Guys Yes I've used my first set of K4 decals. I found them to be very good. They are just as thin as Microscale and they went on easily for me. They can be a little tricky since they

The white decals for the San Luis Central Reefers worked just fine on a black car end. Bill

Is the disparity between UTLX and GATC tank cars a regional thing? Frankly I can remember sighting very few GATC cars north of the Boston & Maine's Fitchburg line in New England. My best, Don

Steve, Nice list, but you forgot that UTLX bought 500 welded ACF 10K cars in 1951, their series 39000-39499. Richard Hendrickson identified the often-lamented Red Caboose model as a suitable