I'm no expert on this but I have seen specs for NYC freight and passenger cars. NYC usually called out a black roof cement which, I assume, is not much different from the black goo you can buy at

Here is a new one. Harbor Freight has a soda blaster. Never seen this item before. Hundred bucks is a little much for me and soda at $40 for 50 lbs seens a little high also. Costco

Andy, `There is a product called Faux Fabrix in a spray can that simulates this rather well. It's made pretty much for the model car guys. IIRC it's available in black, grey or red. Chuck

I don't know if this will work but this is the link to a very interesting photo of what looks like a 50-ton USRA boxcar interior showing the car being repaired or re-sheathed. It is on the

I don't know how many on this list are familiar with Equipment Instructions letters but many railroads issued these in order to instruct employees on needed movements of COMPANY empties as well as

Back in 2009, Ed Hawkins wrote that the ACF (X43A) and Greenville (X43) paint specs specified black asphaltum for the roofs. But a photo in the 1953 CBC p.131 of PRR X43B #600635 does not appear to

I have a couple of the X-43 8's door cars soaking in the 91% alcohol right now. They may be the easiest strip ever, but it takes longer than a few seconds to get the lettering off. I literally

Nelson, I should know better than to enter into this discussion again, but here goes it. The scope of the following discussion is the paint specs for PRR X43/A/B/C and X44 box cars when they were

My BL X43 had the same "feature" of the black roof. When I contacted BL about that they said that many of the X43's had an asphaultic compound sprayed over the painted roof and that was what they

Did a search on these pens and found out that they come in eleven different colors. Here is the website. http://www.sakuraofamerica.com/Pen-Gel. Could prove to be very interesting. Tim, thanks

It's not a model... (sorry if people thought Broadway Limited was supplying the Target toy department) Scott Pitzer

Bob and I were both into sports car racing in Southern Calif. in the early 1950s, and later found that we knew a lot of people in common without having ever, as far we can recall, met each other.

Jeff Builder photo of 3-1955 built P&WV 1955 shows plain bearing trucks, while the 5-1956 built P&WV 2000 shows roller bearing trucks. Tim O'Connor ------------------------ Does this mean the

I did learn a useful modeling tip at Springfield yesterday. I was told about a brand of "paint pen" called "Gelly Roll" that evidently do an excellent job if you need white, black, or brown (burnt

Thanks Ed. Does this mean the 1956 order had the ASF roller bearing trucks? Wonder what happened to the 35 earler cars. Jeff Adams

I bought Branchline Trains Blueprint Series 1011 Pennsylvania and 1608 Pennsylvania kits today at a train show. The former is supposed to be a 50 foot Class X-44 AAR boxcar with an 8 foot door, and

Randy-- The GTW's Port Huron, MI shops rebuilt these cars from AC&F-1920-built ex-CN 578000-579999 steel frame boxcars between December 1938 and December, 1939. As rebuilt, these cars did not have

how is making and selling them to walmart? Bill Hodkinson

Jace, While I don't have much to add to the responses you have received about low side cars in general, allow me to point out that the Rex and SMMW S scale SOU gondola cars are NOT the same

I just uploaded a B&O box car lettering diagram that covers the 1920s to the 1960s and a hopper car lettering diagram that covers the 1920s to the 1960s. They were uploaded with permission of the