Gents, Well, I need your help again. I'm building up a old Sunshine kit, the Frisco composite auto car, 151000-sereis car with steel doors and 3-3-3 ends. Unfortunately, the instructions don't

The gondola photo is either LVL or Glue Lam Beams. Bryan Borovec

And could even be kept clean in a gondola ! On 9/3/2022 2:06 PM, Dennis Storzek via groups.io wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Jim you thought in the blog photos the ends of the car were a tad shiny . Yes they are due to lighting used to take the photos. And, you asked, “ have you ever tried using a dry brush technique to

Hopefully the "overwhelming response" gets the attention of potential buyers. -NYC Phil "F*** the pigtail" -Rodney and some guy at my former HO club

Charlie, as a member of the less is more weathering camp, you have set the bar just right as far as I’m concerned. You freight car fleet has just the look I’m after, done but not overdone.

Finished the brake components, rods and piping this morning and painted the underframe. I didn’t want to over weather it and just added door scrapes around the right door and scrapes up the side

FYI, the original post and question did not mention an era. Ed Mines asked, "Were Western Maryland hoppers ever painted black?" He continued with the following. "There's a steam era

The Rutland milk cars would have been on the NYC to New York or the B&M to Boston, since these are the milk sheds that the Rutland served. Don Burn

I've been poking around through the archives, but haven't found a clear answer. Am I correct in assuming that these would have stayed on home rails while in milk service? I found info that they

Photo: Rock Island Automobile Boxcar 59074 (Undated) Cropped photo from the Gateway To Oklahoma History website. Taken at Oklahoma City. Double-sheathed car. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

I agree with Chilcote; it would be a good idea to contact the WMRHS about the hopper cars. Eric is a good moeler, but he models an era much earlier than most of the folks who follow this list. For

Lester, Excellent - both the car itself -and- the blog entry documenting what you did to produce it. Thanks! I have two questions. First - it seems, from the pics, that the ends of the car are

Need to play catch up and fulfill the demand! B&O Eric In TN

There is another possible reason for black car color on the early WM hopper fleet. The WM was owned by the Gould Syndicate for several years in the early 20th century. The W&LE and

Does anyone have drawings of the wooden trestles that the Southern constructed in the 1950s (and earlier) to go across low marshes and swamp areas? These were typically not very tall. I would like

Richard, 131.1 has a Duryea underframe while 131.4 has an AAR underframe. -Phil Lee

I built and upgraded a Great Northern (GN) stock car kit. I built the Accurail GN stock single deck stock car in GN class SM that I numbered 55756. The Accurail kit is a excellent match for GN

I'm 95% sure WMRHS has found documentation of cars painted black in the teens and 20s. Of course you could still argue that maybe they were supposed to be black on paper, and turned out red, but

The Protocraft site states the Diamod logos were added in early 1950`s repaints - see link Protocraft Bill