Here is a scan of an NJI&I paint sample (from Ed's TIFF scan) and also an "eyedropper" image made from that paint sample scan. Painted colors changed quickly in the

Tim SLRX Reefer is in the number series, 10000-10399 Ed Hawkins mentions in his post. And I was attempting to ask if anyone knew of a model produced by any manufacturer done in this number

Hello group, I'm only going chime in with a few comments. First, our "primary" products are "couplers". If we depended only on "freight cars" we would not be in business, freight cars are a

I have talked to Kadee. Several times. They don’t have capacity to finish all the projects they want, much less taking on somebody else’s. They produce their freight cars utilizing excess capacity

TONS of them. Athearn blue box, paint, and Champ decals. Thanks! -- Brian Ehni Micro-Trains anyway. Like Brian’s example, the solution was to have somebody assemble the cars (all of a

I understand Bowser was one of the victims of the abrupt closure of one of the major Chinese factories several years ago. I’m not sure if they were ever able to recover all of the molds used to

On the other hand, I recall when Life-Like brought out their initial HO kits there was much bitching and moaning about the price…don’t recall the exact price point, but it was a few bucks more

Thanks for the photo and information, Ed. Looking at the end, I think the ladder has 16 inch rungs, and I would guess the side ladders had 18 in. rungs. Can you confirm that? I have the Wabash in

Don't think customers would be happy to limit themselves to the small number of models that Kadee has found it profitable to make. Or take Bowser, who per their recent video still appear to do

Nelson, WAB 88200-88699 was built by ACF in lot 3226. Paint specs from the ACF bill of materials: Pittsburgh (first 167)/P.D. George Co. (next 167)/Sherwin-Williams (last 166) - Wabash #10 Red -

There's probably a price (cost) threshold that will bring manufacturing back closer to the consumer. New 'super quality' freight cars are almost all pushing $50 or more

OOPS! Should have read the original posts better. My bad. Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> Reply-To:

Is that an actual reefer (with ice bunkers) or just a plug door bunkerless insulated box car? I see no evidence of hatches on these cars with plug doors, and I have many more similar photos. Even the

I should have checked my hard drive more carefully... I did have an image of an SLRX reefer. :-[ Tim O'Connor -- Tim O'Connor Sterling,

Dennis I'm sure it helps that your model tooling is so good! And I think I've used about 30 of your freight car underframes. Long live Accurail! :-D

Congratulations for staying the course. Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Dennis Storzek <destorzek@...> Reply-To: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Date:

As far as Accurail is concerned, all our molding is still right here in Elburn, IL, USA. We did send some assembly work to China in the first decade of this century (anyone remember Accuready?) but

Charlie Vlk wrote: Gee, all this time I thought your list (Atlas, Athearn, Con-Cor, etc.) were legacies too. Tony Thompson tony@...

I pulled out the YMW Wabash 88200 series kit from the stash, and realized that the only color photo I have is the blurry photo of 88803 in a train. I can’t see the roof and underframe, so I don’t

Group, I plan on attending the St. Louis RPM this weekend and am really looking forward to it. There are a couple of things I would like to offer to the group since this will be in person. First, I