Thanks! Just ordered 48 of them!! They offer all four sizes: 76300 KIT BOX, 7.5² 1 $ 1.50 76301 KIT BOX, 10.5² 1 $ 2.00 76302 KIT BOX, 12.5² 1 $ 2.25 76303 KIT BOX, MAXI III 1 $ 3.00 -- Brian

List, Has anyone here tried to remove the decals - and ONLY the decals - from factory painted Overland brass models? I have a pair of OMI's Cotton Belt wide-vision cabooses painted in the original

You guys forget the P&VW 50 Dbl Door cars they acquired in the Mellon Trust. I have shots of this car and the NKP erection drawing of the NKP car in my collection given to me by the late Mark Bigart.

Brian, I have used the new longer boxes from Athearn to store Rivarossi Pullmans that I've got a meets without boxes. I just ordered them direct from Athearn after getting the part numbers from the

Thanks John, I passed that info on. Clark Propst "John F. Campbell" wrote:

Have I missed something? I've not seen any P2K NKP 50' box cars. I visited the ultra-slow lifelikeproducts.com site, and searched through their archived cars to check again, but didn't see any NKP.

I must say the I¹ve had two kits with broken parts or parts just too mangled to use (including a roof). Both times, I received replacements in a very expeditious time frame. -- Brian Ehni From:

Clark, I have noticed th warpage/breakage problem with the kits from BLT also. I think it is a characteristic of the plastic they use. The stuff is just more brittle than IMs or RCs. Not that

===================== Hi Clark... Copies of the MILW Built rib sided caboose car drawings are available from the Milwaukee Road Archives at the Milwaukee, WI Public Library (Main Branch)...

Shawn, I have today off. It's nasty outside. I'm working on a M&StL 24000 series box car kitbash. While I'm waiting from assemblies to 'dry' I come up to the computer and write stuff I've been

A friend who models the Milw was lamenting about talk on their site about the lack of a plastic Milw rib side caboose. It seems that unless manufactures can get ahold of erection drawings they aren't

I think it was in this thread somewhere packaging undec kits was mentioned. I've bought a couple BLT undec kits, wow, what a lot of extra parts. Now the bad news. They are putting 10 lbs. of stuff in

Clark, You've come up with three entities in your post: collector, modeler, and operator. In the membership of this list I think you'll find all three types, or combinations of same. Beyond just the

Marty, You forget I've been in manufacturing for 23 years... computers and electronics. Perhaps Intermountain's costs are higher, which might explain why the 5277 retails for $31.95 while Athearn's

Clark, Yes, I do know the nice lady at YesterYear quite well <g> Anyway, I know we're doing a special run of CGW PS-1s for another customer -- YYM didn't know about it -- and I know the colors must

Steve, I must be in a lot of boats! You and I are following the same path, just yours has more people! Thanks, Clark Propst

One of the things I like about the railroad hobby is the variety of ways to approach it, all of them correct. I also assume that many of us go through phases, and that our interest today is not what

Marty, Well put, I've found the same things true. We're in the same boat, get it? Now that I have you're attention I need to get more on the topic of freight cars. I sent IM several jpegs of CGW

But . . . . you would never ship pigs in a double deck car -- or at least you wouldn't ship pigs on the top deck of a double deck car . . . . Marty <image.tiff> > > <image.tiff>