Not at all. RCW has no plans at this time to produce Southern Railway pulpwood cars. A new model will be announced soon, but it's not a Southern prototype or a flat car.

Does anyone have any photos of the above cars? I’ve exhausted my resources and I’m coming up empty. Thanks. Brian J. Carlson

wrlyders via groups.io wrote: There's an article with prototype photos and a scale drawing in Railroad Model Craftsman, July 1955, p.48. Not in my collection, but perhaps someone here can help.

While regrind can contribute to degredation, I believe the problems D.A. had with their gondolas is most likely due to their purchasing poorer quality styrene. Styrene is like lacquer thinner--its

Tony Thompson wrote; This results from excessive recycling of scrap styrene moldings DA did use regrind plastic when they did kits and parts. The brittleness runs across their parts line. The

Here is a Higher Res Version of the Flyer. Ryan

With most RPM meets cancelled for the foreseeable future some enterprising fellas have come up with short freight car clinic on-line. Sorry if this is a double posting, CW Propst

Chad Boas did a good job on those ends, I just haven't figured out how to make the empty car track worthy. I may have to make the body out of sheet brass. I have built one MTY as I said but haven't

My understanding is that the SRHA bought the rights and molds for the Wright Track kits that were Southern Railway prototypes. I saw on the SRHA affiliated email list that they plan to have the resin

Bill Welch wrote: This results from excessive recycling of scrap styrene moldings. Dennis can tell us much more about this if he wishes. My own approach might be to try and fill and smooth the

I have dozens of photos of SP GS gondolas - not one of them is patched. I would try to overlay the entire panel to hide the crack, or perhaps use Future or another clear acrylic

Mather Box, Stock and Reefers. The following list are the magazine articles I have for Mather Cars. Mainline Modeler Nov 86 John Nehrich Model Railroading Nov 87 part 1 Richard

Bill The SP gons didn’t have the same problems as they were made of steel not plastic 😁😁😁 the DA kits are noted for there brittle plastic I have built several some of them have been really

Allen, To model the SU box cars converted has always been an interest/goal of mine but as I dug into that the "ends" were always a stumble. Many of those used the Hutchins end. I went so far as to

Bruce, The original thread appears to have been lost since the post is from a while ago. This is about SHPX covered hoppers. These were reweighed regularly and I am interested if that was done at

I have pretty much completed building a model of one of the SP's G50-15 GS gons using the Detail Associates kit. The G50-15 was the initial group built with the flat plate ends with two rib

Eric, Was this a teaser for a future offering of the Southern Pulpwood cars? Sure hope so. Nice article. Allen Cain

On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 09:35 AM, Bruce Smith wrote: just a quick reminder that tank cars did not need to be reweighed on a regular schedule, unlike house carsAbsolutely true. But tank cars had to

Photo: Wings Being Loaded Into GTW Boxcar A photo from the New York Heritage Digital Collections: https://cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16694coll109/id/18222/rec/24 A circa

Hi John, As I remember, I do not think that the P-2000 Mather boxcars have the Z diagonal bracing, just angles. Also, I am not sure that they match the correct height for all the roads that they