I was going through some color images from the Joe Collias collection and came across this image I thought I’d share with the group. Joe had used the image in his Mopac color book but had cropped

I recently completed a resin freight car kit that has sat around for a couple of years. The kit and details are featured in my latest DesignBuildOp blog post.

Factory paint with Dullcote mixed with a few drops of tan to fade the paint. I need to update the light weight date and location and add a repack stencil. -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.

Charlie That looks really nice. Paul Doggett

When I look through the various Morning Sun MILW color guides, I see painted roofs. Curt Fortenberry

Steve and all- Most cars don’t have diagonals outboard of the body bolster. Double sheathed cars may have light straps but they are likely there to tie the ends to the sides and don’t form part

Are these repainted models? The faded colour looks great, as does the weathering. Rob

ART burned retired wooden reefers at Bush, IL, which is curious because it was not ART property but rather a remote coal marshaling yard in southern Illinois on the Missouri Pacific. MP owned half of

Michael Gross and I were exchanging emails on weathering with watercolor pencils and I bought a few at Art Mart while I was in St Louis this past week. There several videos on YouTube on how the

That should have read “Carmer Cut Levers”... not what auto correct put in Matthew Hurst PRRT&HS #6799 PRRT&HS modeling committee

Yes. The 1924 design X29s had charmer cur levers. 1924= short upper door track, square door stops, car builders door (three panel), vertical brake staff. Matthew Hurst PRRT&HS #6799 PRRT&HS modeling

Yes. Later on, some received other types as replacements. Jim Hunter

In the early 1940's did Pennsy X-29's have Carmer cut levers? Thanks. Jared Harper

Late 1940's, the L&N was burning wooden cars nightly. They had been tipped over sideways off the trucks and set ablaze. We would sometimes drive over in the evening to watch the fires. By morning, I

Indeed. Burning was the standard way of scrapping any composite (wood-metal) structure, from sheds to steamships. Dan Mitchell ==========

Obviously NP was reclaiming metal. Fairly common back in the day. Brian J. Carlson -- Brian J. Carlson, P.E. Cheektowaga NY

http://research.nprha.org/BRHS/BRHS_467_1_1374.jpg -Hudson

Yes l can see on closer inspection, thanks.

It's not. The cable is an overhead line of some sort (you can see its shadow on the left side of the car roof), and the line running parallel to the brake staff is the air line for the retainer valve

Why is there a rope or cable coming from right, wrapping round the brakestaff and then going down the end of the car parallel with the brake shaft?