This shop buys and sells Floquil. http://www.narrowgaugemodeling.com/floquil-paint/ -- Jon MillerFor me time stopped in 1941Digitrax Chief/Zephyr systems, JMRI UserSPROG

Originally it stood for Peter Built Locomotives (proprietor Bill Peter), in Ukiah, CA. Google Star Brand paint. Tony Thompson

Tony, Who is PBL ? The only Star brand paint I can find on the internet is an African company making house paint! Regards, Andy Miller

You can still find Floquil on e-Bay, but it can get pricey. Get Outlook for iOS

Denny…. I have not heard that Testor’s was leaving…thanks for mentioning that fact. (Who/what is MTH?) I still have a dozen unopened Floquil bottles left so I just ordered another bottle of

It does not look like a Viking, as the corrugations are not visible. It has widely-spaced carlines, with intermediate stiffeners. Didn’t NP have roofs like that on some classes? Elden Gatwood

All- Signode was one of the major suppliers of the strap systems IIRC. Charlie Vlk

Denny Anspach wrote: You can still buy Scalecoat, or the Star Brand paint from PBL is very dependable. I find myself using it more and more. Tony Thompson tony@...

I'll second Todd's reply. I recall working with those tools as a teenager. The tools on the floor are crimpers, once the banding is snugged up, a soft metal C shaped piece is placed over the strapping

Now that Testor’s (ModelMaster) have apparently left the hobby market (joining with MTH next April), what have listers been choosing for their solvent based paints, particularly flat black. The

So, a completely different question from looking at this picture: whose version of radial roof would this be, based upon the visible stampings as we see them from the underside? Brent Dr. J. Brent

Hi Bob, I think it's called steel strapping and furring strips. The clue is the device held by the worker - it is used to tension and then crimp the steel strapping. Not hi-tech, but cheap and

Photo: Boxcar Load Restraining System (Circa 1940s) A photo from the Virginia Tech University Library: https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/image_viewer.php?q=ns1128 This photo can be enlarged. Can anyone

Photo: Case Cub Tractor Emerging From An End Door Boxcar (Undated) https://tinyurl.com/y3qxb85r A comment by Charlie Vlk: "I’d bet that the car has been repainted for publicity purposes….I

In addition to the information I wrote in Message #176921 , WFE and FGE cars normally retained their original vertical brake shafts through WWII. In 1948 WFE and FGE began to rebuild many of their

I believe I see a vertical staff brake wheel barely sticking above the ice hatch at the left end. Above the W in Western.

Question for the group on this photo cited by Bob Chaparro back on the 17th: https://californiarevealed.org/islandora/object/cavpp%3A112263 The brake wheel arrangement (vertical staff or horizontal

Garth I have a package of 40' PS-1 roofs from IM part 40400-06 BCR. I used one of the parts to backdate a PS-1 model but there are three roofs left in the package. I will sell you all three for the

Friends, Can anyone point me to a hobby dealer who still might have IM PS-1 40' roofs for sale? I've done several useless searches on the web (and got the expired IM page offering them for sale!), but

A new resource file on truss rod end freight cars is available on my DesignBuildOp blog. This was a detail found on many freight cars in the first couple decades of the 20th Century. Many thanks to