Brian,Please send me your list.Thank you.Armand Premo

I’m clearing out some excess inventory and projects. I have some plastic and one F&C resin kits as well as plastic RTR cars up for sale. No sunshine cars in this batch. If you’d like a list email

A lovely image with so much going on: - Such skinny logs for that long ago; not old-growth at all, and with tangled branches. Not worth harvesting for many outfits at that time. - A recently

I would guess Rapido would know. Have you checked with them? They have email and are on Facebook too. Bill Schneider might see this and reply too. It is a hand-finished pre-production sample, and

On Apr 11, 2020, at 6:54 PM, Pierre Oliver <pierre.oliver@...> wrote:  brass is fussy Remove any factory clear coat, worst part of the job Wash Soak in white vinegar

brass is fussy Remove any factory clear coat, worst part of the job Wash Soak in white vinegar wash Prime Bake Colour coats, bake Don't touch

Claus Schlund wrote: Note in that photo (the second one) that there IS no bonnet. It has been removed. An installed bonnet has no manway at all. This car must be being repaired. And I think I

Tim and Friends, Well . . . I'm wondering if you are serious about this statement. The black cars with white or silver lettering are obvious. The cars with orange ends and the black band at the dome

I notice a worker is about to enter (or perhaps has just emerged from) the interior of the chlorine tank car via the dome (or should I say bonnet?). I wonder what procedure they followed to make sure

Clark Propst wrote: Clark, I almost always use a light gray primer, sometimes even from a rattle can, but with good paint, such as Tamiya. And I let it sit for some time to be ENTIRELY dry. Tony

Very nice model, Fenton. Always good to see a UP car modeled well. I have a couple minor nits to pick, that I expect very few people to know. First, the UP began putting the solid journal Repack data

Would like to know what prep work folks do before laying on color? Thanks, appreciate it! CW Propst

It looks like a drawbar from the trailer hitch of the truck to coupler of the car for the purpose of moving the car around the facility. Mark Landgraf

I'm going through my Rapido pre-orders, and trimming those that look like they might have problems. I just examined the photo Rapido has

Hi List Members, A nice view of Utah Coal Route steel gons in log service...

The orange and black Hooker paint scheme is shown in builder photos from before World War II. Of course the photos are all black & white, making this less obvious. :-) -- *Tim

Friends, Yesterday someone asked when the orange paint scheme was applied to Hooker tank cars. I'm not sure anyone answered. A clue is in the photo of GATX 24784 at

Hi Bob and List Members, Thanks Bob for these great links. I notice in the image of TELX 224 that there appears to be the tailgate of a truck. Two items of interest... (1) The truck bed appears to

Photos: Hooker Tank Cars These black-and-white photos are from the Tacoma Public Library Digital Archives: HOKX 606 & 614 Plus

Photos: Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company Tank Cars These black-and-white photos are from the Tacoma Public Library Digital Archives: TELX