Now wait just a minute. Rib Side, Intermountain and ExactRail all have ribside box cars. And everybody and their cousin produces HO scale F7s. The AAR 1937 box car is available from more than one

It seems taken for granted in this discussion that only kits are accurate and RTR is only inaccurate. 'Taint so in either case. Besides, who among us is qualified to define 'accurate' for anyone but

Clark, USAX or DODX for sure since that was the prototype for the kit. One of those DODX tank cars is on display at Holloman AFB, Alamogordo, NM. Gene Green

--- In STMFC@..., Richard Hendrickson <rhendrickson@...> wrote: ....>any prewar riveted USQX cars were painted > aluminum when new, but AFAIK all of the welded cars were delivered in >

Clark: This car is accurate and ready-made to letter as a USAX or (later) DODX tank car in the silver repaint scheme. (I have done a couple and am still searching for 2 or 3 more of these very kits,

I produce a lot of industrial castings during the year. The "resins" (urethanes) I use are high-grade, industrial-quality with a very high heat tolerance. The cured casting has physical properties

Incidentally, MP hopper cars operated from California to WV. Anyone know of a hopper that operated farther? Mike, any details on this? Jerry Michels

Richard, Nope! You have not done all you could do. Ya gots to build 'em also... Then -- and only then -- will we all be blessed with super detailed and accurate Enterprise GS gons. Thanks in advance

Somewhere in the multitude of comments about RTR non injection molding [ The ARA XM-1 seems to me to fit the bill. Multipule roads and with a little creativity it could be developed with multipule

Richard, One of the corollaries to Murhpy’s Law (sic) is that “Washing your car to make it rain doesn’t work.” Regards, -Jeff Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 3:42 PM To:

What else? How about a multi-dome tank car? (Actually, I think a multi-dome wine car would do well for all the same reasons pickle cars do well, and still be useful for the prototype-oriented among

mike brock wrote: There are photos of Reading hoppers in Los Angeles. Hard to beat that. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Somewhere in the multitude of comments about RTR non injection molding [ NIM ] frt cars was a suggestion that there might still be a significant frt car that has NOT been done using the injection

Jim Singer has reminded me that that the original official decals produced by 5th Avenue Car Shops for the Cocoa Beach Shake-N-Take clinics are still available for the DT&I gondola and the

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:12:46 -0400, Tim O'Connor wrote The Yardmaster cars are durable, but they have something else going for them that makes them popular. They're cheap. Half the price of a

Bruce is correct. Many prewar riveted USQX cars were painted aluminum when new, but AFAIK all of the welded cars were delivered in black and stayed that way at least until the late 1950s, after

Andy MANY HO scalers (I hesitate to say modelers) will not buy Intermountain or other such cars with delicate details -- but they will and do spend big bucks for trains that suit their fancies. As

Garth, not really -- you pointed out Ertl's #1 mistake -- they produced models that ALREADY EXISTED in resin or plastic. The cars also were too light, and had terrible trucks and couplers. Not going

Clark Propst wrote: Clark, this is just plain silly. Plenty of serious operators are equally serious about prototype freight cars; and plenty of guys who can't even spell "operation" buy lots

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:33:06 -0700 (PDT), Ray Breyer wrote The 64K$ question here is, do people who don't care about accuracy care enough to buy a resin car with cast on details when they can buy a