I've been finishing up many of my builds with oil paints on the roof for weathering. I'll mix up a medium grey from black & white and paint an irregular line by the roof caps to denote where paint

Folks; I have been doing a bunch more reading on minerals shipped by the railroads, and figure you could have an interest. This may create a more interesting through or set-out operation for you,

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Eldon,        Having read your note on the heavily weathered PRR boxcar.  Having an art back- ground is nice, but not a requirement.  I have recently completed a Central of Georgia

Hello list, does anybody here have any information whether the castings for the Superior hand brakes (that used to be available from the CNWHS as mentioned in message 72129, but are not listed

Ed, Thanks for the description. Now I know which car we are dealing with. The Army had some out at Fort Bliss years ago and I was afforded plenty of opportunity to examine them

I supplied the gondola artwork to Greg Komar (as well as that for some other M&StL cars). The artwork was taken directly from the General American stencil diagram for the M&StL's 30001 series

Richard, If I am not mistaken the bolster and supports were visible on?top of the deck as well, making the decking itself "fit" around the exposed members, correct? Whereas the 50-ton car has the

Thanks Alan. I hope lots of scrap too -- mostly brass & stainless steel. The material I like best for this sort of use is phosphor bronze. If you've seen any of the Railyard kits then you've seen the

Bob, All three, the C&O/N&W/VGN, had rotary dumpers at Tidewater. It "appears" that the N&W/VGN had heavier tracks sooner than the C&O did and we don't know about the conditions of their branchline

Tim suggested: Such a material is already available. I use brass strip material from Russ Simpson for making the special steps and for making lateral walk supports on resin kits rather than mess with

This seems to be one of the last of that batch of non-"signature" cars that Richard did articles on, that had not been done. Of course, I just finished my resin version recently...well, it WAS

Eldon, I recall Chromate, a yellow powder that got everywhere, being delivered to the Diamond-Alkali plant in Painesville, Ohio in gons. Came into Fairport Harbor from ? and the docks were

Tim, here in the UK we have a number of suppliers of thin metal strip (brass, steel, nickel silver, phosphor bronze) in various thicknesses and widths for modelling - what sort of sizes are you

On Oct 14, 2008, at 7:48 AM, John Hile wrote: As does Sunshine Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn, AL http://www.vetmed.auburn.edu/index.pl/bruce_f._smith2 "Some days you are the bug, some days

Ed I have a shot of B&O 9273, a 70 ton car w/ 14 stake pockets. The class appears to be P-32. One more thing, since the draft gear face is cast into the end sill, IRC will have the choice to make it

Denny and all; Faced with a large number of projects for which I had few answers, I have been staring at in-service photos for months now trying to get up the courage to finish some of these

Owners include AT&SF/B&O/CNJ/DT&I/ERIE/IHB/NH/NYC/PM/WABASH. And maybe GTW (not sure) I found a terrific scan online of a CNJ flat loaded w/ autoframes. My concern is -- will the car have sufficient

ProtoWest has a resin kit for this car and some prototype info and photos on their web site... http://www.protowestmodels.com/ProtoWest_HO_Kits.htm John Hile Blacksburg, VA