Denny, this looks like it could develop into an excellent resource, but it also may need some strong auditing to ensure consistent quality and terminology*. I looked at just two issues of Mainline

The only problem that I have with the GARX wood reefer is when I went out to shovel snow, I started thinking about the cars and started drooling -- ice cycles formed. I came in, thawed out and then

Thanks Ed. I was only going by the Youngstown doors shown on the web page. If I'd looked into my kit box (#1609) I would have seen the correct Superior doors. Tim O'Connor

Bill, Are we going to get a chance to see the final tooling results before we have to place our orders? Ed Edward Sutorik

Hi Everyone Barring a white-out blizzard, on February 7, 8, and 9, 2011, four pieces of railroad equipment will be moved from various places around Laramie, Wyoming, to Railroad Heritage Park located

I think you pretty much just did explain it. It was started in response to Kalmbach shutting down their index. They're also more open to what magazines and periodicals can be indexed, including

Can anyone explain or expand upon the new "NMRA-based" periodical indexing system at <http://www.olimpia.com:8084/magazine-index.html> ? This is NOT the renewed Kalmbach system, but is a separate

Yes... and no. Not likely. The biggest group with Duryea’s was the Oscar Mayer cars. We chose car numbers that did NOT have Duryea’s. Of everybody buys a bunch of reefers I might talk Jason into

Bill, In your decisions about paint schemes, are you taking into account that some of these cars had Duryea underframes? Any chance you will do the Duryea variant? Kind regards, Garth Groff

With Mike’s indulgence... We have received many questions about what schemes we are going to be producing on the new GARX wood reefer first shown at Cocoa Beach. Last night we updated our web site

Are the decals for this kit still available? Thanks, Ed Shoben

Al, Amen to that! When we moved from Illinois to New Hampshire, in 1997, the local moving company could not get the local labor to help unload the truck. The driver, his helper and myself unloaded

I've already had that floor issue happen in the basement floor structure:  The roughing carpenters only put a single 2 x 12 in under the barring wall holding up a cantilevered second story room

Tim, The 7'-wide Superior doors furnished in the Branchline kits (#1608 and #1609) are the correct configuration for the X43B box cars. Regards, Ed Hawkins

Chuck The big irony here is that CB&T actually made the correct body version for the X43B -- DP roof, R+3/4 ends, 10p riveted, 7' door opening. But then decorated the wrong body for the X43B! Now,

Hi - I'm certainly not an expert, but I am willing to help out. Checking out prr.railfan.net (a particularly useful site) here: http://prr.railfan.net/freight/classpage.html?class=X43 The version

25+ years ago I began tearing out the freight car articles and filing in folders marked by car type (boxcars, reefers, gons, etc) alphabetized by RR A-N and N-Z). This got me the prototype photos I

It's a ten panel car, five each side of an 8 foot door. I'll hate to get the details right then mess it up with my usual paint job but maybe I'll get lucky. It has happened. Thanks, guys. Chuck Peck

I was on vacation without e-mail access for the last couple of weeks and thus don't know if anyone already posted this since I had to discontinue getting e-mails from the group but I just happened to

Chuck, It would help if you would tell us a couple of details... The width of the door. The amount of panels on either side of the door. The car you have doesn't work for the PRR X43b as Ed has