GREAT photo, Tim. Thanks very much for sharing it but do you know where and when it was taken? Happy Holidays, Don Valentine

Only for the Q baggage car because I wanted to maintain compatibility between the decal sealer and the body paint. Another issue was that Krylon flat aluminum gave a better (less grainy) finish than

A very interesting Fourth Quarter 2014 issue of the Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society featuring the following articles: Santa Fe Helium Traffic (Jay H. Miller) Modeling Helium Tank

Clark Propst asked: "You guys using paint from a rattle can?" I do if I can get away with it. I hate cleaning the airbrush. Ben Hom

You guys using paint from a rattle can? ClarkPropst Mason City Iowa

RotoMetals (no relation just a happy customer) sells sheet lead among other metals in different thicknesses by the square foot. I have even used 1/32 sheet lead to replace the wooden deck on several

Even the railroads had poultry cars. At least the Southern and either the Lackawana or Erie that I know of. Howard Garner

Doug, This was a very interesting story. Thanks much. Yours Aye, Garth Groff On 12/22/14 8:35 PM, 'Douglas Harding' doug.harding@... [STMFC] wrote:

Brad Andonian asked: "Is this a wood 36' car?" http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1269496 No. It is clearly a 40 ft car - compare its proportions with the express X29 on the next

I will buy that Cyclopedia, Dennis. I was not aware of it, and you may not believe it but that's the first time any one has suggested it. Ben Scanlon London

Nelson, The original thread was an issue over mixing Krylon with other brands ofpaints with dissimilar vehicles. This is dicey regardless. Moral of the storydon't mix them with Krylon. Greg

You're kidding. In this day and age, if you walk in through the front door, the suits are going to want to charge you an hour at shop rate to even write up an order, and that's $60-$70 right

Not yet. I painted a CB&Q SSS baggage car with Krylon Flat Aluminum and sealed the custom inkjet printed shadowline decals with Krylon Crystal Clear. Three years later, all is well. Nelson

Don Ball in Kansas City has extensive information about live poultry cars and their operation, which he kindly sent me some time ago, and which is on my old computer. It might be best to contact him

You can also try a local machine shop. They can order the correct size and cut it to length for you. Ken Braden

Fellas, Is this a wood 36' car? Brad Andonian Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad

Dennis, this is an even better photo of that type of Erie box car http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1269496 Tim O'Connor

Garth if you read the history of Poultry cars at http://www.hoosiervalley.org/history/turkeys-and-trains/ you will learn that by 1950 only 15 poultry cars existed and the last shipment of poultry by

I have a can of Krylon solely for use for "fixing" home-made decals after they come out of the laser printer. This is what MicroMark recommends with their decal paper. Has anyone had a problem with

Schuyler Larrabee] wrote: I'm happy to say I never had a tragedy like Schuyler describes, but I too have had problems in past years with Krylon. I too would recommend that it NOT be used for