For anyone interested in the fate of NorthWest Short Line products, I am forwarding this. Mike Wilson Terre Haute, IN

John,   You asked about a paint match, so I will give you my choice.   MANY in the modeling community, regardless of scale, have gaff-awed at what I'm about to say, until they see the

new Dennis, my 50-ton trucks are 1-1/2" too wide. I haven't lost any sleep over it. back at: I have some problems with the section on plain bearing freight car trucks. First of all, you only mention

Hi Folks Ray Breyer has kindly provided information about the sheathing and build dates for most of the IC series that I listed as Unknown in message #75687. Here are the DS/SS/Steel splits for

John, Thanks! Jim

Thank you, Mike and Tony! John John Golden Bloomington, IN Daylight differed after can find. with. dirt color. me a good will look PFE color in some them ] or a So...take your

Hi Jim, A friend of mine, Fred Mullins, lives in the Chesapeake, VA area and is an A&D modeler. I recall having a conversation with him where he mentioned that he did a custom run of A&D box car

Hey Charlie, The defining article on these T&P rebuilds was done by Ed Hawkins in the MP Historical Society's Fall 2004 publication "The Eagle". Ed's words on the color of these cars is "Photos

I am building a per production kit for Sunshine Models of the T&P 81000-81425 series rebuilt box car for the instruction sheet and display at Naperville, and I don't have any painting instructions for

Thanks for the info; however, I need the Gothic style lettering with the rather large round monogram (herald). Al's set appears to be Roman lettering sans herald. This would be a neat car to model

Joe, the problem with the Santa Fe whalebelly cars is that the deep fishbelly sills conceal the tubes. However, you can assume that they were located in the same places as on other 50' cars with

Jim, The old Walther's set #134-11 has the double white circle with Atlantic & Danville Railway Company within it and the Blue arrow with A&D in it. Chuck Hladik Rutland Railroad Virginia

In reply to John Golden's message regarding a good color for Daylight Orange, Tony Thompson writes: It's "Daylight Orange," John, and most of the commercial ones are pretty decent matches. True. In

Brian, A discussion came up over on the P:87 list about overly wide model trucks, and since you have been a busy beaver tooling all sorts of new trucks, none of which I've actually seen, I'm curious

ed_mines wrote: Sometimes a clean area DID have pretty regular edges, but it was also sometimes the case that fresh paint has been sprayed right over the grime. Hard to be sure without a

John Golden wrote: It's "Daylight Orange," John, and most of the commercial ones are pretty decent matches. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave.,

John Star Brand makes a good PFE color. They make the SP box car red too, which is the same as PFE brown I think. I used to use Accupaint CN orange (a very bright orange) and "step" on it a bit to

SP "Daylight Orange" is the same color as the PFE Standard Refriferator Orange, Color #8. Match your favorite brand to the color panel in Thompson'e PFE book, p. 419. Rob Simpson so I can properly

Gentlemen, While we're on the subject, can anyone suggest a good paint match so I can properly finish the PFE wood reefer I have on the workbench? Thank you, John John Golden Bloomington,

Without seeing the photo I'd assume that too. The yellow area aound the reporting marks on the 2 very dirty reefers is rectangular with clean cut edges. I doubt it would look that way if someone