I visited a LHS in Racine, Wis. over the weekend. They stock Scalecoat II paint in (3) shades of Boxcar red. Is there a "cheat sheet" as to which RR's used which flavor? John F. Cizmar

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Thank you fellows for the great suggestions. I'm hoping this project will be worth bringing to Cocoa next January. Chuck Peck

Jim, It's not clear from your post just how much you weather the faces of your wheels, and you do not state if these are for roller or plain bearing trucks so I wanted to point out that, as has

Cotton Belt had some 54 ft gondolas with horizontal ribbed sides ( e.g. SSW 71192 etc) Has anyone produced a model in HO of these ? Does anyone produce ribbed patterns for kit bashing ? Charlie

Tom Baker wrote: The 1937 CBC drawing included in Ted's book on the 1932 cars shows the end panels slightly narrower than the others. Again, the CBC drawing (of a carbuilder's roof) shows raised

thanks Brian I'll check it out.. i knew they did special runs with decals but i didn't realize they did it for stock models. Tim

Hi all.....Sorry for the previous response with the bad english. I hit send before I proofed. Corrected below..... Hi......I do the following usually with 50+ axels at a time. First I primer the

The original poster on the erielack list helped us out: http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-03-23-08/Cars_in_Binghamton_Yard_Circa_1937.jpg As clear a view as we'll get from this

Hi......I do the following usually with 50+ axels at a time. First I primer I using a 50-50 mixture of Flouquil Rust and Roof Brown on inside and outside of the wheels. ............After the wheel

I read a recent post on the EarlyRails group that suggested weathering wheels with a rusty mixture on the inside face, and a grimy/oily black mixture on the outside face. This seems to make sense,

Very fine screen is available from Small Parts online. I have some that I use for window and door screens in HO. It is used for filters in the medical field. Jared Harper Athens, GA >

If you start here: http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/railways/index.cfm?id=3&index=1 You can find a lot of right-click images to save, such as

Well, Tim, Accurail does do the renumbering decals with the background the >>exact<< same color as the car body. We've used those on the custom cars we had done for the Club ( www.nsmrrc.org )

Tim: They do if you don't mind decaling. They have multiple numbers printed on decal paper to match the car color. Brian J Carlson P.E. Cheektowaga NY

Sylvan Scale Models makes these CPR 5/5 ends-- http://www.isp.ca/sylvan/detail.htm (hope that Yahoo pastes the URL properly this time) Steve Lucas.

I used 200-grit sandpaper to score lines on clear styrene sheet. I first rubbed the sandpaper once vertically, and then once horizontally on the styrene. The resulting scratches are flooded with

william darnaby wrote: You might also check holiday ribbons. They often have fine mesh sections that are use able as screen material. Bill Dixon

I have made easy caboose door screen with .005 clear styrene. Sand the material in a criscross pattern to dull it and make it slightly opaque. Then glue on prepainted door framing made of styrene 1

Tom I do not know about the gondolas specifically, but C&NW definitely was using the huge billboard C&NW lettering as early as February 1956. That's a sharp looking model! Thanks for pointing it