Rob Kirkham wrote Once the body is together, it should all straighten out. Just glue everything together straight and true. When I build the ECW gondolas, I am careful to lower the body height so

Eldon, thanks for walking me through the process. I need two cars, so especially appreciate your pointing out the difference with the centre side rib. The long centre beam/frame piece in my kit

Armand All three roads had 10'6" AAR box cars w/ 5/5 ends. You can use the Intermountain, Athearn (IC only), or Sunshine kits. CNW & RI had 3-bay offset hoppers, represented by Stewart or Accurail

Guys; I was looking at another partially-completed G26 a few days ago, and was thinking about that particular kit, and I still like that kit. Yeah, the rivets are softball-sized, but then the G26

Elden Gatwood covered this class in Part 7 of his series on PRR gondolas in The Keystone Modeler #9 (Apr 04) Jerry Glow more gondolas - make a nice helpful for Gloger on the link the

I quess I was really too vague.Sorry.HO ,1946 to 1950.Plastic or resin and prototypically accurate.Armand Premo

My specific area of interest is 1946/1950.Armand Premo

Hi - my efforts to model Vancouver in the mid 40's have me learning more about the PRR all the time. Now its about the PRR G26 and G26a gondolas - nothing like any CPR car I have studied, and

We need to know prototype era and scale. What is the theme of the car fleet you are trying to balance? Home road? Locale? Traffic? What modeling skill level are you comfotable with?

Mix the dust with human sweat and you are pasted up. It was a dirty job and usually the labor was done at the least pay grades. If you would wish for the "good old days," you have forgotten jobs

Michael Bishop wrote: "Atlas has released a USRA double-sheathed box car rebuilt with steel sides. Two of the paint schemes are for the Santa Fe. I know the paint scheme is correct, but is the car

What time period?

Rob you wrote: Hi - my efforts to model Vancouver in the mid 40's have me learning more about the PRR all the time. Now its about the PRR G26 and G26a gondolas - nothing like any CPR car I

steel paint Hi Michael To supplement what George Hollwedel said... The road numbers I have seen for the Atlas cars are 148850, 148888, 149005, and 149014. In 1949 and 1950 they were part of the

No, close but no cigar. Santa Fe were 10 panel sides, the model is 8 panel. That being siad, I had to buy all four because Atlas did a nice job. Come see them and see how close you have to get to

During WW 2, when I was in high school in north Louisiana, empty boxcars were spotted on the team track in our little town for cotton bale loading. They were usually lined with Kraft paper.

Atlas has released a USRA double-sheathed box car rebuilt with steel sides. Two of the paint schemes are for the Santa Fe. I know the paint scheme is correct, but is the car itself correct for the

Armand Premo wrote: "I am striving to achieve some balance for my freight car roster. Can someone provide information as to the box car models available for the following roads: Rock Island,CNW,and IC

I am striving to achieve some balance for my freight car roster.Can someone provide information as to the box car models available for the following roads:Rock Island,CNW,and IC ? Armand Premo

Jack; If you hit the link below the photo titled "Display Images with neighboring call numbers", it will bring up several more images, including the outside of the car with the loading chute poking