Lovely product from Speedwitch, and a gorgeous build! Michael Gross Pasadena, CA

Rich Another excellent model. Paul Doggett. England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Rich Very nice I really like the weathering and chalk marks. Paul Doggett England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I typically paint the trucks with the car color. When a prototype car is painted, over spray would cover at least some portion of the truck side frames. Weathering will alter the final appearance. The

Greetings, Next up from the AZ built cars is CB&Q 15508, a Speedwitch XA-9 Auto Car kit. I finished this car earlier today. and brackets. The cars was painted with TruColor TCP-240 CB&Q Frt Car

Greetings, Earlier this year we headed down to AZ when the weather got cold in Minnesota and I brought a handful of resin freight car kits along. I built several cars and was able to spray them

Jim Mischke, If you have an ice rack on your layout then using "a rack full" as some kind of multiplier of reefers makes a lot of sense - the question then would be 'how many rack loads to use'. If

The CGW Chicagoland mini-kit also used elliptical coil trucks, which a good reason to add some CGW cars to your roster for truck variety. Nelson Moyer

What color were trucks for these NYC and MILW gondolas under conditions stated? NYC 751000-751099 wood floor rebuild in 1945, presumably repainted then, as it would appear in 1953. MILW

Alex; PRR bought its paint in that era from a large group of commercial suppliers, who provided “best match” paints. I am sure quality varied, but surface prep was also crucial. Elden

That series, 87000 even #s rode on TMW elliptical sprung trucks Clark Propst

Chris, thank you very much. Exactly what I needed. I hope my decals look better than the last prototype photo! Was the PRR buying paint at a going-out-of-business sale? Alex Schneider

The PRR had specific trains, symbol TRS, to "expedite" empty refrigerator cars (and tank and stock cars) west. Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

The highlighted part is incorrect. The IH should read 10'-0''. The mistake is entirely mine. I wish to thank Tom Christensen for bringing this to my attention.

I apologize for bumping an old thread and responding late. Thank you everyone for the photos both in this thread and the ones that PMed me information. Anyway regarding the SP&S car, I've done work

On Tue., Nov. 9, 2021, 22:56 Jim Mischke, <jmischke@...> wrote: "Yet there are many occasions when only an American product will suffice and distinctive US railroad cars make their way north."

Remember that reefers were paid on a mileage basis, loaded or empty, so the reefer owners could not care less about westward loads. And in harvest time, they wanted their cars back without divergence

Ken, George was generous to send me those two pages. Here you go. Scott Haycock Modeling Tarheel country in the Land of Enchantment

To promote reefer return, one backhaul from east to west was magazine bundles. Care was taken to avoid any aromatic contamination. A favorable carload rate was negotiated where three reefers = one

Thank you for your observation. While researching B&O oil traffic, I become familiar with pretroleum technology as found in the oil trade press. The Standard Oil refinery near Philadelphia is