My favorite mix for SP caboose or box car paint is Floquil 1 part Tuscan to 1 part Box Car Red. I echo Gene's answer: for decals for both ---RL Designs and for trucks --- San Juan with steel wheels

Jonathan: I have used Floquil Boxcar Red lightened with Oxide Red. I can suggest RL Design decals for dead accurate lettering for the car in all eras. As for trucks, my favorite are San Juan Car

I was checking the latest images at the Fallen Flags site and came across one featuring an NYC gondola and box car: http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/nyc/nyc632353ana.jpg The index info reads: Des

Tim, You didn't do your industrial switching with a numbered stegosaurus, did you? How would one put a DCC decoder in one today? ;-) regards, Andy Miller

Paul Hillman wrote As a kid in the 1960's I read my father's entire collection of MR's Trains and RMC's from the 40's and 50's and once those Varney ads starting showing up with John Allen's photos I

Jonathan, these Rich Yoder trucks are very good. http://www.proto48.org/p48_update_04.htm Scalecoat Box Car Red is a good place to start for SP box cars, just vary the tone by adding some Oxide Red

Paul, I have to agree with your assessment of John Allen, without intending any disrespect to Richard or Tony. He was an innovator, and a pioneer of many important techniques that we take for granted

Richard Hendrickson wrote: (John) Allen then adopted advanced decrepitude and made it fashionable because his modeling was inclined more to quaintness and caricature than to realism (and in

I have an O scale resin kit for a B50-15 box car and a Pacific Limited SP caboose. Can anyone suggest suitable O scale trucks for the box car and an appropriate paint shade late 1940's/early 1950's

List- Having messed with thousands of wheelsets and hundreds of trucks in an effort to eliminate maintenance and maximize rollability and reliablity on our rather large H.O. layout, I offer what we

Don Smith wrote: Don, Thanks very much for pointing out Russell Crump's web site. That's one heck of an archive he's put together. Much of what I'm looking for is available to be copied; I'll be

Thanks to Tim O'Conner and Richard Hendrickson for sending me some scans of photographs of the Bx-49's from their collections all were great photos. With the information and the available drawings I

Denny, I convert my Kato ASF A-3 solid bearing trucks with the narrow 0.950 (0.960?) Reboxx wheelsets and it makes them work extremely well. But I can't do this with the rotating caps roller bearing

Hi, Copies of the subject sheets are available from Russell Crump at: http://www.ATSFRY.COM/ After you access his website one must download Adobe Reader to access the folio sheet files. The

Given the general oilyness of the trucks and underbody, and having looked at more than a few photos, I would say that rust was not the most common color... Rather, I usually dry brush some white

That too is my experience. The Kato trucks are very handsome, but compared with the rolling ability that one can attain with the Reboxx conversions, it is strictly "no contest". That said, although

wrote: But Stephen Priest actually PUBLISHES stuff...... Ron Merrick, a consumer of freight car data

Bill, Roundhouse has a closed cap roller bearing truck. It is a bit crude, but might be the only game in town. Kind regards, Garth G. Groff Bill McCoy wrote:

Central Valley used to offer a covered end cap Timken roller bearing truck that seems to have dissappeared. With the introduction of the Wright Trak FGE mechanical reefer this truck will be needed

Andy, The trucks on WP 6401-6500 had exposed rotating bearing caps, just like today. Kind regards, Garth G. Groff Andy Carlson wrote: