I agree with Bruce. Painted roof that has accumulated grime. To my eyes, it looks like matching paint under the running board.

According to RPC 16, Sherwin Williams Galvanized Roof Paint was used by Pullman Standard on the CNW's emergency box cars that they built in 1943. These cars had Viking roofs, whereas the rest of the

Charlie, I’ve never seen any reference to silver, grey, or a galvanized paint anytime during the 50s or before. Exceptions do occur, but the B&O seemed to cover things with car cement for water or

Brian, Thank you for your foresight about the hobby's need for more accurate, higher quality freight car trucks, and for all the effort you put in to making them a reality. When I started building

I cut the lettering into the sideframe cavities the same way i cut the sideframe cavities themselves. I had a bench top CNC milling machine and except for two store-bought ball end mills made all my

That is plenty close to the edge for me! Looks like there is still some paint left on the roofs. Did Santa fe put cinders or some sort aggregate in all thier roof paint for boxcars? Scott McDonald

On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 11:01 AM, Tim O'Connor wrote: I have a nice shot of an ASF cast truck (with the ASF letters and also a foundry stamp) but in the center of the truck at the top is spelled out

Grain doors!

electrical machining, rather than mechanical machining

Last night I watched the movie "Picnic" with William Holden and Kim Novak shot around Salina, Kansas in 1955. There's a fair amount of good views of 1955 Union Pacific and Missouri

Many trucks have foundry symbols on them. Kurt Laughlin compiled a WORD document for foundry marks in the 1940 to 1945 time period. He wrote it in 2005. It covers

Ha, you got it Charlie, lots of MoPac bias. However, just to note, our museum is recreating the Santa Fe Railway across the Texas Panhandle. Whether MoPac or Santa Fe, your results, in my opinion,

Thank you I now have the instructions Paul Doggett

Hi Has anyone got the PDS and instructions for Sunshine SFRD kit 16.2 please Thank you Paul Doggett

Brian how do you engrave microscopic lettering in metal molds? Do you have some kind of laser etch it in? Scott McDonald

Notice the four different journal box lids. Mark

I think Accurail trucks have the raised “Bettendorf.”

The CNW Historical Society commissioned a Superior Brake wheel set almost 20 years ago when they commissioned a special run of the MSTL 53000 series boxcar kit. These cars were repaints and were all

When I worked at Alstom Transportation in Hornell, NY, we had a substantial collection of old trucks, mostly roller bearing types, from different freight cars that most likely had been scrapped

For the group; Jerry and I have been friends and fellow Mopac modelers going on 35 years so you’ll have to take his comments with a little MP bias. 😛 -- Charlie Duckworth Omaha, Ne.