All- Interesting that a company would develop a website and not state the scale that their product targets. HO may be a default assumption but there are modelers in other scales…. Charlie Vlk

Richard Townsend wrote: Certainly not on the Athearn body. There was a similar though not identical scheme on a pre-1934 billboard car. I suspect Athearn winged it on that one, possibly using

A question I have asked before, but never gotten a suitable answer: is there a prototype for the paint scheme on the Carnation reefer?

Because of hackers I’ve had to start from scratch. My new email address is almmr87@.... My new Facebook page is Al Westerfield, with a top photo of 2 freight cars, and my photo superimposed. Any

Very nicely done, and very innovative! -- Michael Gross Pasadena, CA

To populate my new layout, I pick up freight cars with Kadee couplers at train shows. I try to keep the average at about $4.00 apiece. One was a Varney metal box car, at least 65 years old. It took

Lee Thwaits asked: "My first kits were Varney wood & cardboard & Mantua metal. When did Varney switch to metal?" A check of Varney catalogs at HO Seeker shows the wood and cardboard kits (with

That is a clever idea, and the evergreen stock should match well, as I more or less copied the Evergreen grove dimensions when I designed that tool. I might point out that Evergreen "car siding" would

Athearn rolling stock ad from the December 1962 issue of Model Railroader. Ben Hom

Bob a fine model. Thank you for sharing your method to replace molded on details without carving. Clever! Lester Breuer

Nicely done! Nice solution to the problem of carving off details. Thanks for sharing George Toman

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Well done Bob, nice innovative solution to the issue and the finished product looks great. Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

Today that car sits in a line of other historic cars where it's blocked in, very hard to shoot due to cars on the adjacent tracks. But at least it still exists. Ron Merrick

Your model looks excellent, Bob, no reason to apologize. Tony Thompson

That’s clever with the scribed styrene instead of carving! Nice work, Bob. Mike Skibbe

That’s a nice looking car, and your solution to the molded details is ingenious. Nelson Moyer

Hi Bob- That kind of clever problem solving is why I like the STM FC. What a great solution! -andy Carlson Ojai CA

Nice work! Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Bob Chapman <chapbob611@...> Reply-To: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 at 7:12

In recent years, the folks at the Chicagoland RPM have presented a kit or minikit to registrants, allowing them to model a freight car not commercially available. The 2018 minikit was a truss-rod FGEX