Quoting Dave Nelson <muskoka@...>: Aw, c'mon. The boys in the car shop do a great job of making the car weathertight and you're going to complain about it? At least we have a radial roof

I've got a photo my Dad took of 5 loaded coal hoppers -- 3 MP, 1 B&O, 1 N&W -- at a chemical refinery somewhere in Texas. And I've also seen photos of loaded Milwaukee Road coal gondolas on the SSW in

Another source for the earlier Enterprise gons is Challenger. But they easily cost 3-4x as much as the new Ulrich cars were supposed to cost. But, quite nice detailing, especially the underframes.

Gene, Actually I think Frank Hodina & Martin Lofton have taken a lot of flack over the years for this, and last year at Naperville I was surprised to hear Frank talk about scribing his own board

Yes, as there is another builders photo of the same car where the other end is close to the camera and one can make out that the car is indeed wood. Naturally I didn't want to post the url for that

Kert Peterson says ... love OK, how about the Sergent Engineering coupler? It is scale-size. http://user.icx.net/~sergent/ Roger Miener at Tacoma WA USA

What makes it even more confusing is that in the mid-fifties, the TP welded steel plate behind the door to replace the wood siding on many single-sheathed cars of this type (after converting them to

In the mid-60s I saw an NP single-sheathed box car that must have been recently shopped. The paint was glossy and one had to look carefully to tell the siding was wood boards. I hope this isn't too

Dean Payne asked: Is this model any different from the Red Caboose GS gondola? Yes. The Ulrich car represents an Enterprise design built by General American Car Co. for the SP as Classes G-50-9

Someone a long time ago must have decided that the best way to model or create a characterization of the real car was to use "V" groove material. I guess the hobby has to live with this inaccurate

It must have some function in the delayed uncoupling process. Kadee couplers are pretty interesting things when you start looking more closely at them - like the asymetrical keystone shape of the #5

Actually this has been fixed. If you buy #58s in packaging printed with black ink, instead of the red/orange, you'll get the newer ones. I can't tell any difference in performance but the revised

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/acfx/tp70317asw.jpg What, no wood grain? Where are the horizontal grooves so nicely replicated by Evergreen? Dave Nelson

Denny Anspach wrote: The Accumate Proto coupler may have superior appearance, and I agree, it does, but my problem is that I can't drop one directly into an "Athearn" or Kadee No. 5 box, or any

Marty McGuirk wrote: "The lettering you are looking for is not available from anyone to the best of my knowledge. Simply cutting apart the lettering on the decals (or transfers) won't work since the

Tim, I also asked the folks at Precision Scale Co. why they built such a gorgeous N&W M2 locomotive that did not include a working front coupler. I was told that they (i.e., PSC) make an operating

Just loaded the picture to the photo site in the files section. -- Brian Ehni

the knuckle and the "fist", which is why I have stopped using them.< Remember "never say never", if you notice there isn't a gap anymore on the latest versions of the 58. Jon Miller AT&SF For me