On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 06:25 PM, Tim O'Connor wrote: very clean masking job on that roof ! Roof was painted separately with the running board glued on. I airbrushed with my galvanize mix and brush

Clark It looks pretty good. Paul Doggett

Clark A really nice job all round Paul Doggett

Hello, I'm not sure what eras you guys are trying to model but for UP steam and Transition era cars a boxcar sheet is a boxcar sheet. It will do most of the work you need for just about any car.

Dick Harley wrote: Yes, Dick, I have the SPH&TS book too, with all your superb information. I often refer to it. But here, I was just giving a short summary, without details, as a broad guide. Tony

Nice job on the car. Excellent job on the decals Hubert Mask

very clean masking job on that roof ! On 4/12/2022 2:34 PM, Clark Propst via groups.io wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Dick, I try to confine my modeling to the 1948-52 period for freight rolling stock. I would assume in that period that the car was still in it's original paint and lettering. I am not a UP

Another example would be the B&M, who, after acquiring several hundred wood underframe, 8 wheel cabooses in the 1890's into the nineteen aughts, purchased 54 bobbers as their first SUF cabooses in 4

No one has said what era the decals need to be, but Microscale does have a set that covers this group. It is #87-494. Admittedly, it has some serious errors (circle "O" 20-inch lettering) and needs

Bill, Sorry I cannot answer your question of where to find a real boxcar, but the diagrams for those cars say they were built from class A-50-6 cars in two batches - one in the mid-1930s and one in

Not sure what you mean by "modernized", Tim, but the history of those cars (and other UP cars) is available

I'm in the same boat as ken, except that I have three of them to correct. Ken is entitled to first dibs, but should a source be found for more than one car, I would be interested once Ken is taken

Dennis, Sorry for the confusion. I was answering Clark who asked if the Accurail car is a good starting point for the 573500 cars. I may have confused matters by including the photo of the 10-0

Classy car Just say’in Fenton

I really like the roof treatment Fenton

I just happened to acquire a mint Trix UP DD Boxcar but of course misslettered as a UP A-50-19. Unfortunately the ex Speedwitch now National Scale Car D102 - Union Pacific A-50-16 Auto Car HO set

All ships propellors are fully finished at the foundry where they were cast, machined, had all blade surfaces trued and polished as was the hub and its shaft bore for the ship to which it will be

Also notice the markings on the blades, including "handle with care". Also notice that the propellers appear to have machined surfaces, not rough casting surfaces. None of these

I suspect many 4-wheel “bobbers” that survived in-service into the late steam years had a steel underframe from an earlier upgrade. By the 1940s, I would think many were in local service on