All true, Tim, but when there are no color photos, you gotta work with what you have. And I continue to think the NC&StL flats were mineral red until someone produces positive evidence to the

Frank, that's a good rule, but you can't ignore the exceptions. SP's G-70-8 "G31b" gondolas (Tangent model) were delivered in BLACK, for example. :-) And Southern was a road that had both black and

Northeastern Fallen Flags RPM Meet October 2, 2010, 9AM – 6 PM !!! NEW VENUE !!! Ted Blum 4-H Center 310 Milltown Road Bridgewater, NJ 08807 Greetings all and pardon the multiple posting. The third

Are those sprung trucks on that model?? Are they joking? Just after the last holdout (Kadee) finally adopted more realistic looking springs, Atlas moves in the other direction? I object to the term

You¹re forgiven for the poor Latin spelling, but that¹s not a proper Latin phrase in the first place. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegitimi_non_carborundum Thanks! -- Brian P. Ehni From:

Dear Denny and everyone: I encountered this when trying to find an HO ruler while I continue to find some of my tools from my move a year ago. I have two, one a long Walthers example which is good

I'm going with freight car red for the color of NC&StL flat cars. About 25-30 years ago Richard told me that railroads generally paint their open tops the same. Since the N&C painted their hoppers

Benjamin Hom stated that he didn't know if the "Atlas USRA rebuild" was an accuarate model of a CN car. Now that I've looked at Atlas' photos of the models in N and HO, I'll put it this way--Foobie

Denny Didn't Terry Wegmann also make some of these? I seem to recall someone at Naperville with handfuls of these "home made" sprue cutters... (This would be a while before they became widely

I just received an order from them on Saturday. Their invoice says they are closing the doors at the end of September. HTH Ken O'Brien

I've been reading all the nice things people have had to say about Accurail kits, and suppose I should comment. The main reason why Accurail won't consider doing kits with multiple separate ladders

For the 5th Ave Car Shops/Accurai Car and the Needham Packing Sioux City Dressed Beef car (which were both decorated) I simply taped of the marking on the car and used Testors Chrome yellow for a

CN had 250 steel rebuilds done by the GTW's Port Huron shops in 1936 of a steel-frame boxcar originally built for the Grand Trunk. Port Huron also did a large number of these cars for the GTW within

Richard,     We have recently printed decals for the above boxcars in O and S.  Do you think there would be any desire for them in HO? Thanks, Bob McCarthy THE SUPPLY CAR, LLC 803-429-1811

That's my conclusion, too, since I've never found either a color photo or NC&StL color documentation. FWIW, I painted my model mineral red. Richard Hendrickson

Like the advancing thin edge of the wedge, it has come to my attention that several of our very favorite tools are no longer available, namely the very fine Utica Swiss-made PBL sprue cutters, both

Actually, we were using Po.lyscale, and the list is still on our web site, under "Paint Information": http://accurail.com/accurail/paint.htm The problem is, about two years ago Testors, the makers

Bob When you originally asked about GN flat cars, I assumed that you meant the RED CABOOSE "USRA" flat cars, not the TICHY flat cars. My mistake. The CHAMP decal set HC-646 was produced especially

Perhaps the source of this confusion was the first runs of the Atlas hopper. I heard that Atlas sent some published plans (Mainline Modeler?) to China, where the car duplicated the error of the