The CV kit has a round roof. Do these cars have one? It looks like they have a peaked roof. Ken Montero Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

The NP cars that CV makes were built in 1930-32. Gary Laakso

I believe the NP stock cars shown are the same as offered in HO as a "flat kit" by Central Valley models. It is finely detailed. Somewhere online I saw an article about modifying the kit regarding its

Photo: Northern Pacific Livestock Car 90332 (1907) Photo from the Montana Memory Project: https://mtmemory.recollectcms.com/assets/display/87913-max Bob Chaparro Moderator Railway Bull Shippers

Nostalgia: the ability to remember yesterday's prices but not yesterday's wages. ;-) I remember buying Suydam painted PE cars for $40. Curt Fortenberry

Photo: Carload Of Baseball Bats Photo from the University of Minnesota: https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll261:1618 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad boxcar helping to bring a bit of

Richard, A GN diagram for the single car 29001 denotes it was built by Pullman-Standard in 1940 and modified by GN in 1958. The original number was 49759, one of the many former double-sheathed box

Possibly “staggered” door? If the door size was cut down in width it would me easier to cut down the plain edge of the door and leave the locking hardware side of the door alone. The opening

Does anyone have information on this car (GN 29001), the one in the photo provided by Tim O'Connor? I suspect it was a one-off, but don't know. Apparently it was rebuilt from an earlier car, one with

Some times there is commentary that I acknowledge and recognize as very on point. This bit from C.V. is spot on. When I was a young modeler, I only personally knew one great scratch builder; now I

Larry and All– I was going to respond off-list because we revisit this topic periodically and I don’t want to spend my holidays in moderator jail…. ….but it represents a false narrative

Athearn offered their Daylight coach as a kit, but quickly appeared to realize the return on completely accurate passenger cars with one owner wasn't going to succeed, so they cut their

Larry, Accurail and Bowser kits fill the niche vacated by Athearn and Roundhouse (Model Die Casting). Tichy has a few of their more detailed kits as pre-painted kits. Adjusted for

We still have Accurail. Yep, everything costs more now. I started out buying flextrack at 75 US cents for a three foot piece. That was brass rail on fiber ties. Sounds cheap but minimum wage was

I definitely count myself a model builder-I deplore the trend toward RTR , but some of these newer technologies such as 3D printing and resin casting do make up for a lot of the loss of the old line

Hi CJ, When I got into this hobby in the 1960s, it was more of a model builder's hobby. These days it seems like a RTR hobby. Other than resin, and companies like Tichy and Accurail,

Print out the car, the paint scheme, lettering, and weathering all at the same time? Would that take the fun out of building models? The operators might love it, having that kind of realism available

Great project Rich, make sure you post photos Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

I managed to find an undec C&O/NKP Atlas 1932 box with the said radial roof (actually 15 ribs). Just removed the door tracks and use your UMM saw, easy-peasy. My roof is going on a Red Caboose Pennsy

Greetings, This revolutionary 3D printing process came to my attention when I received an email illustrating high resolution airplane cockpit instrument panel detail sets. They are stunning. Here are