Dave Soderblom wrote: "Please say more so I can understand your point..." Trix invested a lot of money to badly tool (the roofs in particular are really bad representations of the rectangular panel

Ben: Please say more so I can understand your point... David Soderblom Baltimore MD USA drs@...

ACF's tanks before the Type 27 tended to be shorter lengthwise for their nominal gallonage?? (and therefore larger in diameter) than most of the other tank car builders. What you want for that

I have found that the various wheel bases of tank cars make a huge difference in lettering cars. I remember once thinking that UTLX and ACF tank bodies were so close, they could be a start of

I know much has been written about this so-called USRA tank car, but I have a question. What was the gallonage of said USRA design? The reason I ask is I am decaling said Tichy tank car to represent

Lester, If you are an oil based non-acrylic type paint modeler like me there are some more recent post Floquil era offerings. Mr. Hobby~Mr. Color #7 Brown. Great for the transition era molder post

Aaron, All I have to go by are original paint specs. The AF-1 cars 11000-11699 eceived metallic brown for the entire car including doors, underframe & trucks. Stencils were white as these cars

Thank you Ed. This puts me back on course. I have the RP Cyc article in front of me, and the Sunshine instructions. The instructions only show the reservoir, brake cylinder, and dirt collector in

Aaron, Seaboard’s turtle-back roof auto cars measured 14’-6 1/2” from rail to top of the Apex (11000-11999) or Blaw-Knox (22000-22199) running boards, and they were not equipped with brake

I'm building a Sunshine kit#55, SAL round roof auto car. I am wondering if the cars used a slack adjuster. And also, what was the height to the running boards. I'm using Accurail trucks with .88

I am well along on building a Westy kit of the above for the TH&B. I have good photos to guide me and from one I can tell these cars had an Ajax Brake Gear and Wheel but cannot tell if the brake step

This model violates the cosmic order of things. https://www.ebay.com/itm/TRIX-24902-SANTA-FE-40-THE-GRAND-CANYON-LINE-BOXCAR/362606744899 Ben Hom

Chuck fine Models. Thank You for sharing and Jim Thank You for your FCC help. Appreciated. Lester Breuer

Great work, Chuck! Elden Gatwood

Garth Groff writes: “More to the point, this is a FREIGHT CAR group, not a locomotive group. I'm surprised our fearless lawman leader hasn't shut hasn't been jangling his keys.” Actually, my

Calling the BLI hermaphrodite a proper NW2 is not to be done in polite company. I am sure the Walthers model will be a great improvement. And hopefully the beginning of a line of several phases of

Friends, More to the point, this is a FREIGHT CAR group, not a locomotive group. I'm surprised our fearless lawman leader hasn't shut hasn't been jangling his keys.

Wasn’t there a transition period? Nelson Moyer

Most of mine would not recognize anything with infernal combustion. This IS the STEAM ERA group. Chuck Peck

What is a diesel? Johannes running nothing but steam engines. BTW, this group is STEAM era freight cars :-) Gesendet: Dienstag, 13. August 2019 um 00:12 Uhr Von: "Nelson Moyer" <npmoyer@...> An: