Photo: Installing A New Deck On A Flat Car (Undated) A photo from the Norfolk Southern Corporation: https://tinyurl.com/y23gckno Click on the photo to enlarge it. Looks like the planks with

Photo: N&W Boxcar 47302 (1949) A photo from the Norfolk Southern Corporation: https://tinyurl.com/y6h64v4x Click on the photo to enlarge it. Description: "...a Norfolk & Western train made a stop

To up my game, how do you do the tack board detritus? Bob Allan

I'll second Mr Thompson. Turpentine tends to eat most varieties of plastic. Again, ask me how I know..

Tim O'Connor wrote: YES! YES! I recommend people NOT put turpentine on models until they know it is compatible with the previous finish. Don't ask how I know to say this. Tony Thompson tony@...

RE: Cudahy 5557 What type of trucks are under this car? Thanks. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Hi RJ, you’re achieving nice results, so what follows may not apply to what you are doing. But my recent experience with turpentine and oils used for weathering washes was paint on two models

Tim, Turpentine, or the odorless alternative, Turpenol, are effective on all artist's oil paints, regardless of brand. It is not an appropriate solvent for other types of paint. Regards, Bruce

Days to go, Tim, days to go . . . Schuyler

Turpentine? Does it matter what brand of paint this is applied to? -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Clark It seems like sales were much stronger before Christmas! $200+ in December but just $45 in January? :-( -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

I'll send you the photos that go with the steps. It is actually rather quick & easy. Over the last 3 decades I've tried most methods and really like this one. Hardest part would be to find a Floquil

Tim & Group; I just love that pic for so many reasons. The “SPOUT” lettering is probably for the crew welding the ladle together. The ones face down further down are teeming ladles for

Lots of interesting chalk marks on that one. "No good for ingots" is different. Scott McDonald

Got reasonable offers on the last cars I posted, so I’ll offer three more... https://www.ebay.com/itm/114612774682?ul_noapp=true https://www.ebay.com/itm/114612780340?ul_noapp=true

Nice. I think you've also just described the standard for steam era weathering for 2021 that many of us are using. The only tweak I'm currently doing different is after painting and before the Pledge

Doug, Is Cudahy 5557 a Mather car? It’s marked for return to E. Chicago where Mather had their plant. The car ends are a different design from later Mather cars. Eric

Clark One great build by Your friend. I built one and have it on my blog http://mnrailroadcab100.blogspot.com/search/label/tank%20car I would not sell sell it for less then $200 plus. Lester Breuer

On the Burlington, the main purpose of the enlarged Mather cars was to haul hogs from western Illinois to Tobin Packing in Rochester and Albany NY. These cars could hold up to 200 hogs, so

Here's a 2016 blog post on the Walthers T-section Bettendorf sprung trucks that I converted to solid. http://designbuildop.hansmanns.org/2016/09/09/t-section-bettendorf-trucks/