Athearn offered their Daylight coach as a kit, but quickly appeared to realize the return on completely accurate passenger cars with one owner wasn't going to succeed, so they cut their

Larry, Accurail and Bowser kits fill the niche vacated by Athearn and Roundhouse (Model Die Casting). Tichy has a few of their more detailed kits as pre-painted kits. Adjusted for

We still have Accurail. Yep, everything costs more now. I started out buying flextrack at 75 US cents for a three foot piece. That was brass rail on fiber ties. Sounds cheap but minimum wage was

I definitely count myself a model builder-I deplore the trend toward RTR , but some of these newer technologies such as 3D printing and resin casting do make up for a lot of the loss of the old line

Hi CJ, When I got into this hobby in the 1960s, it was more of a model builder's hobby. These days it seems like a RTR hobby. Other than resin, and companies like Tichy and Accurail,

Print out the car, the paint scheme, lettering, and weathering all at the same time? Would that take the fun out of building models? The operators might love it, having that kind of realism available

Great project Rich, make sure you post photos Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

I managed to find an undec C&O/NKP Atlas 1932 box with the said radial roof (actually 15 ribs). Just removed the door tracks and use your UMM saw, easy-peasy. My roof is going on a Red Caboose Pennsy

Greetings, This revolutionary 3D printing process came to my attention when I received an email illustrating high resolution airplane cockpit instrument panel detail sets. They are stunning. Here are

Wow Dave, that's an ideal solution. Now all I have to do is find one. Thanks-- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

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The roof is easy: C&O and NKP used the same Cabre radial roof on their ARA 1932 boxes, so just find an Atlas car and a razor saw. David Thompson

On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 08:29 PM, Steve and Barb Hile wrote: The nearest ORER that I have may be July 1966. It shows these two cars, but does not list any “special doors.” Note that cars

Thanks Fenton, I'll take a gander. Attached is a excerpt from an annual report on work being done to these cars.

Look in RPC No. 24. And good luck with that one. You will need a special radial roof with 17 ribs. I have wanted to build one of those as well but haven't tried the roof yet. I purchased radial

The next FtD box car Jason would like to build (me) is the 11000 series. These came from the DT&I so hopefully someone has a photo or two? Thank you all! Clark AFE #DateWork

Tom Christenson sent me a photo of one of the SAL cars too. Those are so cool, I had no idea that was way to hang doors. Thanks for posting. Too bad Clark's search wound up with a standard car! --

The ten foot rolling doors just stacked one on top of the other. Ted Schnepf On Friday, December 10, 2021, 01:52:19

Are you going to paint brass? I might be able to keep you busy for a while. Charlie

Jason found a photo of one of the cars! Here's the link https://www.lakestatesarchive.org/Ed-Wilkommen-BW-Collection/Freight-Cars/i-xzL7LhV/A So, the dimensional data in the ORERs is correct. It's