Bill & Bill, This groups technical facilities give us the possibility to add a 'link'. Therefore my thank you to Tony starts with a BLUE Slater's, which (blue) indicates a link to the Slater's site

I’ll second the recommendation. It is one of the best FB groups (“Sin on Celluloid, the pre-code era” is my favorite, 24k members – a tip of the hat to Miss Joan Blondell and a stink-eye to

https://www.slatersplastikard.com/plastikard/plasticRod.php Bill Welch

Does anyone have a website for Slaters? Also how is international shipping for tiny orders? Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

I disagree about the coat of "rough stuff" on freight cars. By the period that single sheathed cars were introduced labor costs were rising and both railroads and car builders were looking to reduce

The annual Toronto Railway Prototype Modellers Meet will be held on Saturday, March 16th from 8:30 am to 4:00pm. The day consists of clinics by prototype modellers and the unique “show and tell”

Randy Hees wrote: "I believe that too often modelers 1) are modeling railroads as they fail, and are no longer maintaining equipment, and 2) we overdo textures... including wood grain and canvas

In the 19th century, you would not be able to see the wood grain on car siding... to see wood grain would indicate poor wood and a terrible paint job... prior to painting a car would be primed, then

Thank you Scott. This project will take a while though... I have the drawings, many pictures and good support. Now only thing I need is some TIME! best regards, Fred Jansz

Thank you Paul, this 'properties and dimensions' sheet is just what I was looking for! best regards from Holland, Fred Jansz

Thank you Tony! Slater's puts 50 strips in a package, where Evergreen and Plastruct offer only 10! They also sell MEK. Very good. Fred Jansz

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This is a very revealing picture of how ladders were attached to a steel refrigerator car and note now the ladder curves into the bottom of the car:

I look forward to seeing Freds efforts! His work he has shown in his WP facebook group is always second to none. Scott McDonald

Thanks for the detailed explanation Andy. While my references use the terms "early wood" and "late wood" the effect is the same, some parts of a board will shed paint faster than others. I disagree

Brian, In RPC 12, page 22, there is a reprinted F-M ad from 1938 stating that their Type S scale could weigh cars in motion and did not require dead rails: "The heaviest locomotives can be

Exactly Earl, the metal should smoother than the wood after a few years and will reflect the light differently. Bill Welch

Lumber used for freight car sides is milled from logs which have many concentric rings, with inter-spaced softer wood between these rings. Mill workers will call the rings "Summer wood", wood which

I've always been a proponent of some wire brush or scratch brush work on some of the boards, although others do not agree. I have toned it down over the years, however. I have heard the argument that

Bill Welch restates regarding modeling Z bar framing: Many (many!) moons ago, I had started an effort on an S scale single sheathed box car pattern, and I took a slightly different approach in order