A few modelers are building the Resin Car Works NYC steel gondola kit as a group build. Jerry Hamsmith has collected notes and photos to share in the latest RCW blog

And just to add to this topic, here's the boxcar I've been working on. This was one of the first models I bought brand new and unopened (in 2018, as weird as it sounds) at a train shop in Spring,

Hey everyone, For over two years (blame a mix of jumping from project to project and plain laziness) I've been working on an X29 class boxcar kit made by Red Caboose in the WLE scheme. I've been

Boilers are boilers, be it on a locomotive or in a building. They require cleaning and upkeep. Even if that hospital could handle cold weather with two boilers, they would have three. One offline

I served a church that had an old one in the boiler room down in the basement. They couldn’t get it out when they replaced it with a new smaller modern boiler. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

Steve, it doesn’t take a REALLY HUGE BUILDING to require multiples of these in series. Good engineers set them up so as the weather gets colder, they are lit and heat in sequence, to avoid wasting

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My question is: would a buyer purchase 2-3 of these. I assume they would not be items that someone would order to put in stock to sell. If I wanted one for my new building, then they would ship me one

On the multiscaledigital site there is a picture of three Birchfield boilers on a flatcar. Two are large and one small. I plan to model this with 2 HO and 1 N scale boilers. Allen Cain

If you look at the prototype photos, wood in the real cars added to the thickness too. It takes a thick piece of wood to equal the strength of a thin piece of steel. J. Stephen Sandifer

I agree with Chuck. One of my additional duties in the Army made me the facility manager for an armory building that was a WPA project in 1936. It was heated by a boiler that looked just

Ben, Thank you. Great idea, this would also be a good excuse to buy another Westerfield kit. I have some .030” wide v-groove Evergreen siding I found in my styrene supplies, that might work for

The Kewanee catalog Frank sent me shows the Type "C" came in 21 different sizes, and two versions, for burning either coal or oil. The largest, which, in HO, this one seems to represent, was the Model

Kewanee made many different sizes. Look at the width of your model. Seven or eight foot wide, three would work in my opinion. Nine or ten foot wide, I would go with two. Some smaller sizes might

Hi Chuck, When asked about the weight of these boilers, I was trying to figure out whether a flat car could handle more than one in a load. Based on your comments, it looks like two or three power

David, "This looks like a job for . . . [2 beat pause here] . . . Sanborn Maps!" That building has what looks like some sort of loading chute down almost down to the road, which seems very