Help please Do Tamiya or Vallejo do an orange that is suitable for SFRD orange? Many thanks Paul Doggett. England

Bill- Thanks for the update! The PRR cars, along with the Reading, are pretty attractive examples of the type. I hope to eventually get the 2D drawings into the hands of somebody that can work

Charlie, It was a Pennsylvania 4-Wheel Bobber caboose I had been working on and scratch built in styrene based on an Ambroid wood kit. I made 600 parts and had added an interior with furniture.

Bethlehem Car Works has been producing hybrid passenger car kits for years. https://bethlehemcarworks.com/ Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

Does anyone make resin passenger cars?

The box car with the giant door stops has me stumped. I can't remember ever seeing that before. On 9/14/2022 12:30 PM, Andy Cich wrote: -- Tim

Thanks for this post, Eric. It is most interesting to see masters. I always enjoyed Bill Welch’s posts showing the masters he was working on, sometimes only preliminary stages, but all were

Exactly my own situation, and the exact reason for the junkyard. Tony Thompson tony@...

On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 10:30 AM, Andy Cich wrote: Looks like some good stuff coming. Thanks to Frank and the minions. Here are my guesses for the 5 cars. NP 1937 AAR boxcar with wood sides B&O M-55c

Looks like some good stuff coming. Thanks to Frank and the minions. Here are my guesses for the 5 cars. NP 1937 AAR boxcar with wood sides B&O M-55c (or maybe M-55h) 2 B&O M-27 variations And

I immediately noticed the X2F's when you pointed out the junk pile! I must have 10 gondolas' worth of them... :-D On 9/13/2022 12:26 AM, WILLIAM PARDIE wrote:

Several new model masters and the kit production process are featured on the latest Resin Car Works blog post. http://blog.resincarworks.com/new-masters-for-upcoming-kits/ Eric Hansmann RCW web guy

Tim, My references differ, some, like the linked Protocraft article, say early 50's, others say they began to be placed during post war repaints. Your photo lends credence to the post war period, what

My daughter considers anything from Burnt Sienna to Burnt Umber as a shade of brown. That includes most of the 1950s freight car colors, from oxide red to Erie brown. Nelson Moyer

C&NW had yellow and green in the 1950's. Maine Central had green ARA boxcars with a large yellow logo. Don Burn

George, Well, picking nits, we like to think of PRR's freight car color as an oxide RED, not brown 😉 GN plywood boxcars - Omaha orange and green Georgia RR - silver Regards, Bruce Bruce

TKing a quick look at my roster I see an SP black Overnight car as well as a &RGW "Cookie" box car. Bill Pardie Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

C&IM dark green? Scott Haycock

Exceptions that quickly come to mind, limited to boxcars (hoppers and gondolas often were painted black): "State of Maine" -- B&M & NH boxcars Black - Lehigh & New England

I fully agree with Nelson that most cars were brown back in 1953 (the year I model). Exceptions were the MKT, M&W and C&IM yellow boxcars and the reefers in orange and yellow and white. Those