Accurail is not in the "hi fidelity" business (like Sunshine) but they aim to provide products to a wider market at a much lower price. Accurail makes many very useful products to scale modelers (esp

I "feel you" Greg in terms of upgrading. I am resigned to the fact it seems to take me the same amount of time to do build, paint and decal a styrene kit, no matter whether it is RC, IM, Accurail,

Hi Greg-- Tx to you and the rest for your comments. I too like Accurail,very much. Otherwise the subject would not have come up and I hope that nobody is taking offense at the question. I've been

Calling them is not a bad idea, but they are only filling orders--and answering the phone--Tues, Wed, Thur. Steve Hoxie Pensacola FL

Like we sometimes tell others, why not call and ask. 701-852-4938. Someone did say Champ was shutting down for sure at the end of September. Jim Hayes Portland

4/5/2010 Bill Pardie wrote I made an order last week from Champ, and got an automated reply, but there has been no other email nor any charge to my credit card. Someone posted that Champ was shutting

Bill - You just need to go to www.westerfieldmodels.com. - Al Westerfield

Al has announced a new CB&Q kit of their XM 21/22/23 series of boxcars. I had promised myself to buy no more CB&Q kits given the number I have already built and the couple left to build but the

Jerry, et al, Yes, Sylvan auto box car Dreadnaught doors are available individually as DP-0051 (early) and DP-0052 (late). I just received both in an order from Canadian Model Trains. See

Sylvan's cars that use them are one piece bodies - an upgrade I assume leading me to question if available separately as reported in another response. Richard Hendrichson once offered it in his line.

I remember having this part from Rennsaler which means it was done by Steve Funaro. I have forgotten how I used it by it a very nice. I think it was part of a release of CV/GTW cars. It would be

Scott, Sylvan makes  them, 2 styles.   http://www.isp.ca/sylvan/freightcar.htm   Rich Christie

Except in certain instances, I find the time to rework these cars to a higher standard more than building them from more accurate kits in the first place. The gondola is an example of one worth the

Thank you Richard and Tim. As I said, I built a kit and apparently have been DUPED by mfr and vendor info. I have long been more in the class of a proto foamer in my modeling efforts and this

Hello, I was looking to see if anybody knew if somebody is making Dreadnaught end doors. There was is a picture of one in the Steam era Fright cars reference Manual: Volume one on page 101 on the TP

http://lists.railfan.net/listthumb.cgi?erielack-09-11-10 There are a few freight car shots in the photos on this index page. RI PS-1, Detroit & Mackinac, in images 6/16 and 7/16, and a PRR gon in

Bob, the GN had no flat cars that were exactly forty feet long, but I assume you mean "about forty feet" and in that case they had several hundred cars that were forty-three feet long overall in

British Columbia's Own Prototype Modeling Event We are only two months out from the third annual British Columbia Railroad Prototype Modeler's meet. Held in association with TRAINS 2010 the RPM meet

I'd like to echo Mark's statement. Gene Green

Wayne, Can you tell me why you would ask us to comment on ACCURAIL's position when you could email them at _dennis@... (mailto:dennis@...) . It is funny you didn't ask for