Note for downloads from the Kinkaid collection: If you click on a picture in the "gallery" view, it appears that Smugmug creates a "reduced resolution" JPG to display If you then right-click -> Save

Fenton, Second transmission. Ken Montero

Fenton, Attached are the 7 pages of instructions that came with the kit. Due to my scanner limitations, each page is a separate PDF. Due to email limitations on PDF's, I have to

I purchased this kit in October of 1960 and it carries the road name and number Pere Marquette 89920. The outside bracing is, indeed, pot metal. I have just pulled it out of service as I am thinning

Fenton, I will scan a set of the instructions from IM kit 42700 FGE Wood Refrigerator undecorated for you this afternoon. Ken Montero

FGEX kit instructions here: https://www.intermountain-railway.com/customerservice/instructions/HO%20FGE%20WOOD%20REFRIGERATOR%20-%20Kit.pdf All Intermountain kit instructions

Double sheathed. Well, yes, there is that.

Mike, You most likely are correct regarding the first date of production. I assumed that the HO Seeker info was the first date of production - and we all know the derivation of the

Actually I have some IM 1927 FGEX cars to disassemble then re build on the PRR R7 frame and one on the Tichy frame as FGEX rebuilt many of their cars. I can no longer find the IM FGEX kits so I bought

Thanks guys! Note to self, when attaching photos in .io groups, use attachment instead inserting as a picture as that makes a tiny pixilated photo. Trying again here. Fenton, assuming it is the RCW

They are looking good RJ. Paul Doggett England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Very nicely done RJ, I have a few of those to build as well. fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

Finished up 2, one the recent RCW kit and the other a Red Caboose RC-4231 kit with a Tichy dual center sill riveted built-up underframe. Pretty similar, each having pros and cons. I like the lower

Not to pick too many points, Ken & Group, but---- I believe this Ulrich 'outside-braced' (sic?) boxcar kit first appeared in late 1940s Model Railroader advertising. I have not looked for it in my

Thanks for sharing this lovely photo of a class GML gondola. Lots to take in. This car must some interior loading device based on the bolt heads on the car side. Many cars had Carmer cut levers,

Here is an update to the Jim Kinkaid Collection on the Pullman Library site. We have added the A section railroads that were not initially available. Please be aware that although Smug Mug offers the

N&W Class SH stock car; more info on this class from the NWHS Archives: https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/listdocs/select.php?index=rs&id=1758 Jim Brewer

I still run an Ulrich box car. I bought it from Walther's as I recall, in the 1960's. But as I recall the outside Z bracing was pot metal though and not brass. It is one of my favorite models. Pat

Chuck, I believe that is an Ulrich model that first appeared in 1960. See below from from HO Seeker.com Ken Montero

Notice that the door opens to the left, not to the right. John Holmes