Nope. They were made for the Athearn car. Al's parts are all from his kits.

That's a good one... for about the same price I've picked up a dozen stainless steel dental instruments with various shapes and sizes of cutting heads. They don't flex like the X-Acto blade does when

I tried a new method this week that works very well -- I used my 'fine' sprue nippers to remove ladder rungs from a box car ladder, including the bolt detail. Then I glued them in place as

Al, Micro-Mark makes a tool that you can use to remove cast-on ladders, grabs and other offending items without damaging the car bodies. I have the standard sized model and really does work! It is

Tim, The Casad Depot outside of New Haven is slowly turning into an industrial park.  I believe the entire property will be turned over to the city or county within the next few years.  Jason

This may get me raided by the Prototype Police, but I don't mind clipping molded grab irons off an open-top car and replacing them with wire, providing the car body is dimensionally OK. I don't mind

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Andy Miller once found some resin castings that represented C&O "dreadnaught" style ribbed hopper car ends, that were made to fit the Athearn car. Anyone remember who made them? Tim O'Connor

Here is another one, near the huge NYC classification yard at Selkirk. This facility was served by both D&H and NYC. Now it's just an 'industrial park' but I saw stockpiles of ingot material there in

cj riley wrote: I have a pair of these ends also. I don't know who originally produced them, though. Nice parts. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave.,

I still have several sets of brass castings of an entire end with heap shield that date back to perhaps the '70s or '80s designed for the Athearn hopper. I also have some plastic heap shield castings

Well, at least second hand, this is an ex-Monon car 1801-1804. Those of us who care about things thought that the SC&F radial 6000 gallon cars would make a decent stand in for these...with the high

I will add that a sizable number of STC cars were built during the first couple of years of tank car construction (approximately 1916-1918) with high running boards like this car, and I have

Frank Greene wrote: As Richard Hendrickson often says, this bolster is an unmistakeable spotting feature: it's Standard Tank Car Company's signature. Cars like this WERE built by STC with high

Who was this tank car's builder and type? I think it's safe to say the trucks were changed and brakes converted from a K type to an AB type. Would it have had the high running board and inboard hand

REMINDER --- 24 HOURS UNTIL POLLS CLOSE!!! Every November, the Keystone Crossings site conducts an "Annual PRR Modeler's Needs Assessment Survey". The survey asks respondents to list their top three

Jason Cook wrote: Interesting link, Jason, thank you. Tiny nit: it's the NICKEL Plate, just like the metal--in fact, named for the metal. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press,

Hi , You might have missed that the Sylvan car is O Scale . Bob Jones Ct.

There is another interesting twist to all this, and that is the role of railroads vis-a-vis stockpiling. Since large amounts of raw materials moved by ship and river barge during warmer months, and