The UTLX tank cars are still available. Anniversary kits are not necessarily limited run but they are usually a little more difficult. Jim Hayes Portland Oregon

--- In STMFC@..., "Douglas Harding" <dharding@...> wrote " We all would have been better served if Atlas had chosen the General American car or another builder who supplied cars to

Are the Sunshine anniversary kits e.g., 15th year anniversary URTX tank car kits still available, or are these a limited run? Thanks, David Newcomb Vashon Is. WA

AMB Laserkit currently does not offer their superb screen material separately but perhaps a few email requests to Production Manager Dave at laserkit@... might loosen them up a tad. Mike

Thanks Dennis! gary roe quincy, illinois

In my junk box I found a couple old Atlas woodside box cars, by today standards are not that great of a car. I want to painted to look like they a dried out unpainted cars that are sitting on the

Chet French wrote: In the late 1940s and early 1950s, SP added gussets at the lower corners of door openings on several classes of all-steel box cars due to cracking at that location. These are

Thank You, Mr. Hendrickson.   I held up progress just for this reason. I am getting picky and when they are done they will make the some of my other cars look in need for the car shop! Sincerely,

Tim, The Wabash cars, 87000-87124, were built at the Wabash's Decatur, IL shop in 1944, with straight side sills between the bolsters. This was common on all Wabash 40' box cars built at Decatur

Mark, the diagram for this series in the Erie Freight Car Folio shows the running boards and brake step to have been Apex Tri-Lok steel. Richard Hendrickson

Al Thanks. The cars must have been renumbered between 1965 and 1969. I asked because there is a 1969 photo of SOU 292195 in the Classic Freight Cars Vol 6, page 42. It's a War Emergency gondola with

I dontl remember seeing this metioned earlier If they were painted they would probably have had to use some sort of non slip finish even one as simple as a few handfuls of sand in the paint -newly

Michael, I have have had good luck using Plaid Paint Company products. If you paint the car gray, let it dry, slop on a product called "Krinkle Medium" and let it dry about 20-25 minutes, then

Lots of very informative messages regarding wood and its painting or not painting. However...believing firmly that the "proof of the puddin' is in the eatin'", the photo on the cover of May 1992 MM

'Fraid I dunno anything about that series. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

Steve Lucas wrote: Valid observation, though in the short time traveling to market, the ingestion/retention of lead would certainly be very slight. And remember that in the era of our list,

Since I was not there at that time period, slippery walking surfaces due to paint applications could be remedied by applying a film of sand to the wet top coat to aide traction. Sand was

You make a good point, Al, About the need to paint the metal floor. Ellington's book does have an interior photo of car 55807, an earlier Caswell stock car of class Sk-K. It's identified as being

I have heard of this also. I had a prof. at UM-Duluth talk in a class I had about while, gathering information for a logging book on northern Minnesota, he drove around the north woods and saw all

model; but I ran across something I had never heard of before, and thought I'd run it past you all. Railroad from 1914, back in the back under Company Service Cars, there is a listing for 35