Anyone have a build date for these cars? -- there were 11 of them, this picture is from 1966 but the car is a 1950's version of the PS-2 2893 and the group is listed in the 1963 ORER. This photo is

It's called LTL. SGL

PSC has a ridiculously extensive line of eyebolts in a vast range of identified sizes. SGL

Their website is parked. Has Rail Shop gone under? I was looking forward to that H31A. -Clark Cooper

It's a beautiful kit and one I can finish. It's not going to be quite as easy as it looks like at first but they seldom are. This is the first resin kit I've bought that requests a butane torch and a

Jim, keep up the good work. I really enjoy your site.   Mark  

None of the prototype information available to me spelled out exact;y what kind of brake wheel, so I just used the 5-spoke circular (not scalloped) Tichy brakewheel in HO scale. Richard

Hi to the group, I am looking for some assistance, I recently purchased two of the Milwaukee Road boxcars in N scale from Fox Valley Models FVM 9011-1's the cars are great but I have one small

Box car LCL consolidators (freight forwarders) continued into the 1970's and maybe later. I'm sure they're still out there but using intermodal instead of carload. Tim O'Connor

There are several types of eye bolts (wire & cast) that probably could be "kitbashed" if needed to simulate various types of pipe hangers that are not available. I know some folks have griped about

Hi, Does anyone know of any diagrams or plans showing the underfloor layout of brake components, piping and train and steam lines on express boxcars like SP, and DL&W 40' steel cars? I'm guessing

Tim O'Connor writes- If I am not mistaken, Southern C&F uses the Tichy stanchions- which do really look nice-, but also seem to be available only in Tichy's Tank Car Set (formerly Gould). These

Clark Propst, quoting Len Vick, wrote: Were not these firms acting as freight consolidators? and did they not complete their service by local trucking delivery? Tony Thompson

Tony,            The list is dependant upon how many kits you are trying to build at one time.   Fred Freitas

I was corrected on one of my interpretations of one of Mark Vaughan's LCL definitions. "Freight forwarders were a private business doing volume LCL for various points. Minneapolis had two of them,

Fred Freitas wrote: Gee, Fred, I never knew my usual microbrew should be replaced with powerful pharmaceuticals <g>. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest

GUYZ,            These are the kits that require prescription meds.   Viagra --------- to keep your neck straight while manipulating small parts.   Prosac --------- to maintain a joyful

Group, Does anybody have more information on the Railshops PRR H31A? They were not at Naperville this year and I was really hoping they would come to market with these. The samples last year were

Maybe it was one of the thousands of cars that stood under Missouri River floodwaters in Kansas City -- that could sure ruin a paint job! :-) Tim O'Connor

Tim O'Connor wrote: Tim, most tank car upgrading or construction articles in recent years have used the PSC stanchions, including Ted Culotta's article in the July 09 RMC. Ted's close-ups