Garth & Ed, I have one of the Ulhrich War-Emergency gons also lettered for N&W. Back in 1966 when I was a member of the old Silver Valley Railroad Club in Camden New Jersey, I put it together, but

Yes. I was going to answer with the full series information, but Dr. Hendrickson beat me to it, including to comment that this was an even number only series. Since it was even numbers only, I'm sure

wrote: At the time I started, Al Westerfield was already in production, and had produced several kits. Al was using polyester resin; miserable brittle stuff that made the molds swell, so if one wasn't

As noted by others, the PRR's panels varied in height. Those on the model represent a continuous 12" panel applied to the entire car side PRR plate end. Regards Bruce Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Jim Mischke wrote: I can't speak for B&O, but PRR panels were certainly not all the same size. There are even photos with different height panels on a single car. So I guess I'd answer Jim's

Kurt Laughlin wrote: That's fine, Kurt, but not my point: I was talking about interchangeability of MODELS. No argument, just keep in mind that these three cars are NOT modeled the

Green resin? Was that an earlier product than the metal-filled 1201 G22 Pennsy gon that I busted half a dozen drill bits on so long ago? That gon soldiers on faithfully here, though most every time

Jim: I can answer part of the question, RC retooled the early PRR X29 (good for B&O M-26b). I am still at work so I don't have a car to measure the height of the patch panels. They are already out,

Certainly no argument there, Al, and I'm proud to say I was one of your earliest customers, back in the fragile green resin era. Richard Hendrickson

wrote: originally 1909 (or Many the obviously Thanks Richard A follow up question, suggested by your answer: Does the span of the series constitute a lower bound on the number of cars? For

Questions: I understand Red Caboose is coming out with PRR X29 bodies with patch panels. - What is the height of the PRR patch panels? B&O's M-26 patch panels were 15" high. Red caboose

Richard - I produced cars about a year before Dennis did (I remember him complaining to me about the accuracy of one of my kits - I later returned the favor about his spurious Accurail road names -

Update on bulk purchases of HO brass air hoses from both Bowser or PSC. ------------------------------------ Cal Scale (Bowser) #190-277 4/$2.95 (current standard packaging) @$0.75. Bulk: 200

Tony comments that these kits are still "hell to assemble". Well, he has that exactly right. Other problems, besides attempting to get all of the stamped steel and cast metal parts aligned correctly

The earliest resin kits I am aware of were structure kits by Lytler & Lytler, back in the '70s. They were several story commercial buildings of an ornate design. Also made of a tough resin. I also

No. Earlier ORERs show 1,000 cars in the 108000-108999 series. Many RRs, when only a few cars were left in a number series, showed only the lowest and highest numbers of the cars remaining, and

The earliest ones I'm aware of were produced by Dennis Storzek, now of Accurail. Dennis, who is on this list, may know if there were earlier examples. Richard Hendrickson

Larry Jackman wrote: Larry is exactly right. The name comes from the constituent elements in the alloy: Zinc, Aluminum, Magnesium, Copper (the second "a" was probably added so you could pronounce