The C&O used this paint scheme on one side of a bunch of their PS1 box cars. Clerks complained, once dirty, they were harder to read than white lettering. C&O MAY have used a less bold Futura font

These Pics and more were taken by Gary Binder and posted to the "Union Pacific HO Model Railroading Group" on FB With his permission I share them with you. Gary and his wife took these pics in 2005

Tim, I think maybe this is the car Bill W. is talking about https://www.protocraft.com/category.cfm?ItemID=542&Categoryid=20 Bryian Sones Union Pacific Prototype Modeler Murrieta, CA On

Tank cars often have the retainer near the hand brake but between the running board and the tank itself. They are often not very apparent because of their location but they are there,

Brian, this is one of a number of Red Caboose releases using the oldIMWX tooling that were BOGUS... I have awhole list of them. ;-) They were done shortly after RC acquired IMWX and may have been a

If you are using a PC with Windows Vista or later, you can use the built-in “Snipping Tool” to capture a portion of the screen, then save it to your hard drive, thumb drive, etc. Open a Search

I have worked a number of cars with mismatched trucks along past the cutoff date of this group. As long as spring travel and wheel diameter was same it is legal in interchange. Jeff Coleman

I have a shot of a T&P 40000 series 40' boxcar with a National B-1 and an ASF A-3, 1967. Ron Merrick

Other than some you can scare up out of old Sunshine resin miscellaneous part castings. The beauty of those is there were often two or three each of some of the brake parts in those chunks of resin,

I do and I will. Bill Welch

The Red Caboose kit is a 10-ft high 1937 car falsely stenciled as a Modified 1937 10' 6" high car. InterMountain's offers the 10' 6" high car w/5/5 Dreadnaught ens while Branchline/now Atlas has 10'

AFAIK PSC has the only separate part. Bill Welch

Hi All, Looking for an article on this kit if anyone recalls. I want to use this kit for a C&S car in the mid 1950's. Was this car correct out of the box or was this supposed to be an xm32c and I need

Does anyone know if there is a retainer valve part out there sold by itself other than Precision Scale? I know there are others out there but they are usually in a brake detail set which I'm not

There is also a photo of a nickel plate hopper with two different trucks out there. Ray Breyer probably could post to this list. Brian J. Carlson

Yes, I have a George Sisk photo/Charles Winters Collection of DT&I USRA with two different trucks and a Virginian SS Bx10 photo from Bob's showing two different Andrews types, one represented by the

B&O cabooses did not have retainers. They had a whistle on the retainer pipe that would sound when the brakes were released. The air coming from the brake cylinder would blow the whistle. Mark Vinski

Bill, For “a couple of cuts”, I am reminded of Andy Harman’s mantra: cut close, then file (sand) to fit. I presume you have a True Sander from NWSL. Regards, -Jeff

Earlier this week I ordered 20 packets of Precision Scale's retainer part, their #31796. Even if I inevitably drop a few, 80 parts should get me thru their transition of ownership and move further

Note to modelers - cars don't always have two identical trucks https://www.ebay.com/itm/372288790209 Tim O'Connor