Brian, I'm having trouble seeing where the Atlas rebuilt USRA cars are wrong for the SL-SF 127000-130499 cars. They look to match in the photos. What am I missing? Ed Edward Sutorik

Greetings group; I have a bunch of unwanted kits for sale from most of the major producers including Sunshine, Speedwitch, F&C, Westerfield and others, available for bargain prices. If you would

Try Minuteman again, This is on their website. "Covid-19 Covid-19 Update Company Status - COVID-19 Update (5/19/2020) MinuteMan Scale Models has resumed operations after our limited

Scale model supplies in St. Paul mn 651-646-7781 Joe Binish

Use the email address on the website Shaun is usually pretty good at returning emails Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com

Schuyler, Have you checked the supplier directly? WWW.MINUTEMANSCALEMODELS.COM. They are the makers of Scalecoat. Dave Pfeiffer

Sorry for this not perfectly on topic post, but . . . I need one bottle of Scalecoat 1 Silver paint. I started out a couple of months ago needing several colors, and found most of them, but

Hi Jim, Photos (including 11 P-S builder's images) heading your way off list. Ray Breyer Elgin, IL

Several years ago, I produced an HO Tennessee Central boxcar as-delivered in 1941 with flat, riveted roof and with what most modelers know as PS-0 ends (correct nomenclature is “proprietary Pullman

Don, You do realize that the USRA double sheathed car has a wood frame, so there was no framing to be saved. YSDCo. just viewed the underframe (which did have steel side sills) as a raft upon which to

Using a photo of Rutland stock car #1960 to guide me I have detailed and damaged this F&C kit. So that I could damage the upper boards I substituted styrene strip of the same size—hopefully avoiding

Ken, From the July 1958 ORER. Jim Brewer

As discussed innumerable times on the list the Atlas rebuild is a mongrel that matches nothing out of the box. It’s a tooling that should be thrown away. The tichy rebuild is good for P&LE. Brian

Ken, Now you have the July 1934 B&M pages for your collection (attached PDF). Dave Bott Tuesday, May 19, 2020, 6:24:11 PM, you wrote: I've been working on putting info of all the B&M freight

Hi folks, In looking over what is available in HO scale for models of rebuilt double sheathed boxcars I've come up with a number of questions. I'm familiar with he early Sunshine kits for this

Bob, Thanks for posting the American Tar Products photo. Flash back to my days as a young man unloading tar from steam heated cars into steam heated pumps and steam jacketed piping at an Alcoa

Maybe this information from Sunshine will help. JimH

Here's a builder's photo of PE 3475. That crazy handbrake linkage was an adventure. Luckily the guys at OERM helped with some pictures of equipment at the museum. -- ------------------- RJ

Hi Ken, This is an awesome piece of research you have done. The list of ORERs you have consulted for data is equally impressive! Claus Schlund

Photo: American Tar Products Tank Car 1100 Photo courtesy of Don's Depot: http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr1401/atpx1100.jpg Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA