The truck is/was a bowser single spring PRR caboose truck- looks like the vaunted "bettendorf" with only one spring under the bolster. I gound out the single spring, then glued in some KD#78 knuckle

Dennis asked: The castings are nicely detailed. The tanks are molded in 3 pieces, a bottom and 2 side/top pieces. This results in a seam down the top of the car, which is made worse by the rather

Bruce, You posted while I was typing before. I'll keep your comment about the "narrow frame" car being a better starting point for a standard gauge class X car in mind. Since you and Jack have both

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Schuyler, I posted that removing the deck and the tape holding it on and sanding it worked great. Regards Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Hi, I've been away for a while, close to a month. When I left, the new IM flat cars were the subject of heavy discussion, mostly related to the excessive thickness of the applied deck. Mine

Unfortunately, those are UTL class V frameless tank cars, when what we could really use in standard guage are the slightly more modern class X frame tank cars. On Precision Scale's website, only

Ned Carey wrote: As usual, RIchard is right. And those springs were on both sides. You can see this in several Cyc entries over the years. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press,

Ned wrote: No, Tahoe doesn't have a 5' wheelbase truck. I used whatever trucks Richard suggested in his article (as mentioned in another e-mail, I thought I used Eastern Car Works trucks but I don't

I pulled out Richard Hendrickson's article on the PSC cars. I have seen UTLX cars of this era that had what looks like a spring sticking out perpendicular from the draft gear. Richard mentions this in

Last week we toured the studio of the late artist Alan Houser outside of Santa Fe. On display is a large (7' high) block of unworked stone. The guide said words to the effect that "This block was

I have one, too.? It sits in my display case with my out-of-era billboard reefers.? I suspect that my unbuilt PSC tank car will end up there as well, if it ever gets built. Richard Townsend Lincoln

I confess that I have one with the curved corners and script Pacific Fruit Express. It's such a beautiful design. I knew when I bought it that it was a one-off and only lasted a very, very short time

Jim admitted: That makes me feel better! I bought six of the frameless PSC kits after Richard's article came out, got them started, but got hung up on modifying the Eastern Car Works (?) trucks by

Dennis S. wrote ----- Case in point, how many here are aware that Precision Scale Company has made this same kit in both narrow gauge AND standard gauge for about the last dozen or so years. They are

rob lmclear wrote: Yes, the curved corner script is even worse--just ONE car--and like the stripe scheme, didn't last very long. But many modelers cannot resist this kind of stuff. Tony

Exactly right Tony, I have stayed away from them as well it's also why I haven't modelled or bought a car with the rounded painted sides or the car with the script lettering, I did falter in HO a few

How about blackstone partners with someone else who is in primarily in HO to help defray the cost of tooling and spread sales over both HOn3 and HO. Perhaps Intermountain, similar to what they do with

Dennis S. wrote: Yup. I always assumed MDC made the frame so darn big so they could weight the car thereby. There was certainly no molding need for so big a part. Tony Thompson

michael bishop wrote: Yessir. They built exactly two aluminum body cars at a time when the PFE car fleet was around 40,000 cars. Much as I like PFE and many PFE model cars as I have, I don't