Black Cat includes a diagram of their decal sheet in B&W to aid in helping modeler locate the decals. Very helpful! Bill Welch

The point to remember is that whatever is used to darken the backside of a decal to make its print or image easier to see, must also let water soak through from that side to dissolve the glue and

I just used an ol' smelly marks-a-lot that was definitely solvent based. Never had problems. The advantage of a solvent based marker is that it stayed on the paper and wasn't dissolved by the water

I'd be inclined to use a Sharpie, Garth, preferably an older one that's somewhat dried out. I think that would be safer than anything that's at all water-based, paint, or markers. I don't think you

Do you think a white board "dry erase" marker would be safe? Sanford Sharpie pens are solvent-based and probably wouldn't work. I wonder if one couldn't simply spray paint the back of the decal in

look on ebay there some color side on there right now tom -- Thomas j Cataldo

---In STMFC@..., <sarahsan@...> wrote : Schuyler, Do you think a white board "dry erase" marker would be safe? Sanford Sharpie pens are solvent-based and probably wouldn't work. I wonder if one

Sorry guys but that won't fly. At least it wouldn't by the late 1960's and early 1970's. In that period one of my responsibilities was keeping track of the insurance coverage for The Eastern Maine

I purchased mine from Bob's Photo, both color and B&W. Champs did decals for this scheme, I love that potato. Just one more reason why our hobby needs a resin kit of the MDT reefer with the fishbelly

Brad, I've read of the riders being referred to as "Potato Bugs"., George Courtney

That film was produced by Alco, showing what a set of FA-1's could do andis available from the New Haven Railroad Historical and Technical Association,so you can own it. It is a terrific film. "Look

I am making an assumption that the guy would ride and sleep in his ownrider car. But that is just an assumption on my part. The picturewas from the front of the train. Even in the Red/White/Blue

from Heber City the rail line went down to Orem-Provo.. there are large agricultural areas in western Colorado. grand junction was a staging area for huge movements of peaches for example. maybe the

RFD TV had a train show that I used to watch regularly until my cable provider dropped the network. The show frequently showed old VCR tapes, some which included old film from the steam era. One of

 Hi Brad, Sounds like this might allow a lucky few to run BAR rider car cabooses aspart of a train on a non-BAR railroad, am I reading that correctly? Claus Schlund

MILW 13000 and 13500 series auto cars rode on Barber S-1 trucks, which are different looking from Barber S-2 trucks, Rapido tooled the S-1 for their 36' meat reefer and their website claims the

BAR potato cars roamed the US except for during the potato harvest becausethere were more cars than the BAR could store, so they leased them out. During the potato harvest, solid trains of the cars

Does anyone have a photo link to these? Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Then there are those photos of Blue & White BAR reefers with a black potato on them floating around, B&W and color. Bill Welch

Rod Thanks that's a handy tip. Paul Doggett UK Sent from Samsung mobile "Rod Miller rod@... [STMFC]" <STMFC@...> wrote: