The old Westerfield kits that occasionally show up in hobby shops and on Ebay come out of estate sales. If the dark gey resin was bad the original brown, aluminium filled resin was worse. Besides

John is not quite right. We can't order the hobby shops to do anything. About 16 years ago we offered to replace every kit on every hobby shop shelf for free just to get rid of the old resin. We

Elden - We make an EJ&E USRA DS box car. - Al aside from the discontinued Sunshine EJ&E boxcar, I don't think I have ever seen a model. Thanks!

I have often had to solve this problem by using old Red Ball trucks. They were cast in type metal and weighed several ounces. They were pretty, but their rolling characteristics are far from

Andy, Bruce, and Garth; Thanks for the feedback. It was very helpful. Some of these small lines may be obscure, but they did have a presence out there, and photos confirm that presence in many areas

Jerry: You're on your own. When I built the ACL car, I added thin sheet metal between the underframe and floor castings. It's not enough, so I went back and added squares of lead between the

Andy and Elden, Don't forget that the IHB had 10' IH 40' boxcars. IIRC, IMWX (or maybe Des Plaines) offered this car lettered for IHB. It's gone now, but the Red Caboose model is substantially

At Naperville this year Sunshine Models had a large offering of gondola cars kits. While I personal did not buy any of the new kits at that time, I was interested in the C&NW offering but

I paid $31.45 total with shipping, after finding none locally, from Patchboy, called and requested they be shipped in a USPS Priority Flat Rate Box, any weight that fits, $7.70! Try the USPS for all

Don't want to beat a dead horse but Iafter reading these posts, I checked the web prices and then looked locally. An auto parts store in my town of Brattleboro, VT - hardly a Metropolis - carried the

Elden, Your list included one of my favorite subjects: freight cars of the Chicago short lines. EJ&E The P2K flat car can be used for EJ&E 6375-6574 & 6575-6774 The Sunshine gift and minikit from

Darren, About 9-10 years ago I bought an older Westerfield kit with the brittle dark grey castings at a hobby shop (Sattler's in Westmont, NJ). I had a VERY difficult time assembling the kit and sent

Mike Brock wrote: The California assembly plants served the entire West, essentially west of the Rockies. I don't know that the routing was truly fixed, but in practical terms I

Beckert, Shawn wrote: Basically correct. But I don't think the "percent traffic" rule was very firm. In the SP files there are comments about some roads declining to participate in a particular

Mike Brock wrote: The way I understand it (and Tony will correct if I have it wrong), automobile and auto-parts cars were assigned to pools, with each railroad contributing a number of cars based on

Reading Tony Thompson's excellent new book on SP frt cars...Vol 3 Automobile Cars and Flat Cars...I'm curious about the travels of auto cars. There is a photo of an auto being loaded into an SP auto

All; I know of some small roads represented in model form by Westerfield and Sunshine, but I was wondering if you have ever seen any models of (accurate) freight cars, or good photo/data resources

That's great news, and a great policy, for those unfortunate modelers who sometimes really mess up a part or two while building one of your kits, Al. Not that I'm one of those poor souls, you

There is a fair amount of correspondence and records of D&RGW participation in car pools for the auto industry at the Colo RR Museum. Included are specs, etc for the "Verta Pac" cars. Chuck

Richard is correct. You can have a new set of parts for $6.00 plus standard shipping (see our web site). Please note that we have not produced a kit in the old material for over 18 years. Here's