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Transfer Yard (1910)

Transfer Yard (1910) Photo courtesy of Eric Hansmann’s Notes on Designing, Building, and Operating Model Railroads blog. Caption: DL&W Freight Transfer Yard, Scranton, PA, September 5, 1910.

By Bob Chaparro · #195300 ·

Re: Fairmont Dairy Line

This morning, I looked back into mid-20's URTC listings: The 1/25 ORER listed URTC 30000-30099 with no QTY yet, and the series would remain on its own line in the registers until it disappears. At no

By Earl Tuson · #195299 ·

Re: Fruit Grower's Express leased RBLs

I hit reply too early. Specifically for C&EI, I do have one source (a Bill Welch presentation) that includes a mid-1950s photo of an RBNX car that has been stenciled to return empty to C&EI at

By Bill Parks · #195298 ·

Re: Fruit Grower's Express leased RBLs

Lee - My understanding is - it depends. Some of the original RBNX cars were repainted/re-lettered for the railroads as they were leased, yet there were some newer ones that were lettered for the

By Bill Parks · #195297 ·

Re: SFRD

I use Tamiya Fine Light Gray Primer, which a very light gray. I tried using Tamiya White Primer on yellow reefers, which worked well, but that was with Tru Color, which is more of an ink than a paint.

By Nelson Moyer · #195296 ·

Fruit Grower's Express leased RBLs

I have a question about FGE RBL cars that were leased to railroads. As a general rule, it appears that they were assigned FGE numbers to go with RBNX reporting marks. When they were leased to a

By Lee Gautreaux · #195295 ·

Re: SFRD

Nelson, I don't know what you are using for your primer, But if you add a little blue to the primer, might that tone down the orange some? Orange like yellow has a bit of a transparent

By Scott H. Haycock · #195294 ·

Re: SFRD

I think Randy overstated the stability of pigments. The UV in sunlight DOES change pigments. Tony Thompson

By Tony Thompson · #195293 ·

Re: SFRD

I occurred to me that I didn’t include paint failure, particularly on galvanized surfaces, in the discussion on weathering. Paint failure results from a combination of paint and surface properties

By Nelson Moyer · #195292 ·

Re: SFRD

Awe, so that’s why they are referred to a ‘varnish’. I always wondered about that term. Nelson Moyer

By Nelson Moyer · #195291 ·

Re: SFRD

I attached the second attempt at SFRD paint colors. The first attempt was too yellow on all cars. This one is good for L (lighest) and J (next lightest), but E and H are too orange, even though they

By Nelson Moyer · #195290 ·

Re: SFRD

I think that Nelson has described the difference between weathering and fading pretty well, with one cravat… If “fading” is the loss of color, this really isn’t what happens to the paints used

By Randy Hees · #195289 ·

Re: Alton and RI boxcars

Yes l agree the roof is almost certainly unpainted galvanized metal, it has lost the polished silver look of new galvanized metal, it looks the same shade as the galvanized bucket l have. The bucket

By Philip Dove · #195288 ·

Re: SFRD

OK, here’s my attempt to answer your question. Paint fading occur as a permanent phenomenon from sunlight exposure, while weathering usually applies to the rust, dust, dirt, soot, grime, salt,

By Nelson Moyer · #195287 ·

Alton and RI boxcars

I was enlarging this image on my phone and it’s pretty evident that the Alton boxcar’s radial roof is unpainted galvanized steel and the panel caps are also unpainted (note how shiny they are in

By Charlie Duckworth · #195286 ·

Re: SFRD

Weathering is the grime of steam engines and the track dust etc. Paul

By Paul Doggett · #195285 ·

Re: SFRD

Is there a difference between weathering and fading? I thought fading was due to weather. -- Ted Larson Trainweb.org/MHRR --- GN in 1965 --- NASG.org

By Ted Larson · #195284 ·

Automobile box cars

Early automobile box cars are the topic of the latest DesignBuildOp blog post. Ray Breyer also shares a resource PDF featuring car designs of the 1905-1930

By Eric Hansmann · #195283 ·

Re: SFRD

Tony that’s very true and with weathering Paul Doggett

By Paul Doggett · #195282 ·

Re: Fairmont Dairy Line

I discovered the probable origin of the end marks on the Varney model: they also sold a Carnation reefer at the time which was marked RW-3 on the side. It's probably just their model number for the

By Earl Tuson · #195281 ·

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