Now that I'm almost recovered from the drive home from Amherst, it's back to work building resin. Can someone tell me the correct trucks for the ProtoWest flat cars. Does TMW make the truck

Hi Pierre, Yes, I've used both with some initial issues but then success. Pollyscale dries pretty flat. Badger dries egg shell or semi gloss. Successful airbrushing with acrylics requires some

Thank you sir.

Hi Clark this link tells the story, they say essentially that it meant a car that was not to be sent off line. A *STAR* under the herald was suppose to denote a car that was not to be sent off line (

You're just special, Don. I'm just conveying what I was told. The cars were decorated for the Amherst Belt Lines layout. Too modern for you anyway. Tim O'Connor

I know Pierre, and he was at Springfield, but he was over by Ted when I saw him, while someone else was sitting in the Elgin Car Shops booth. I wanted to get one of the NYC rebuilds he had for sale

Awhile back I built a Branchline 40’ NYC box car. It is box car red with a “Pacemaker” slogan over the initials on the left and a fairly large white star on the right side between the oval

Rob, both the Santa Fe Bx-37 class and the Bx-43 class had the slightly shorter top main rib and darts. And the photos I have of the C&NW's '42 AAR alternate standard box cars show them with the

Evening, I've been searching for a bit now and I haven't been able to find a conclusive answer as to whether all of the 1942 AAR box cars for Santa Fe and CNW/CMO have the shortened "darts" between

Jeff & Fenton, I have had very good luck with ModelFlex, after a time of learning how . And my wife loves the lack of odor. I love the easy cleanup. Bruce lists some fine points. Here are a couple

Elgin Car Shops is Pierre Oliver, an active member of this list. Did a nice presentation on finishing resin cars at Naperville a couple of years ago. And does excellent work. Doug

Tim O'Connor where do you come up with such pure, unaltered Bulls??? There are a numnber of us that got no such thing. Rergards, Don Valentine

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If your reference is to the Intermountain model that represents a PFE R-40-23, then the answer is no, primarily because the ends are wrong. IM did a fine job on the body, paint and lettering,

Hello Rich it is already decorated! The roof and doors do not match the car color, so might have to start over. Just like IMWX cars and found history AEC. Mark Morgan

IMWX MDT Reefer would this be correct? R-40-23? Thank You Mark Morgan

Tim, The 8-hatch reefer model on display was the pre-production sample of the Canadian Pacific version with plug doors, which will be released before the CN/GTW version which has different features

You must mean this car-- http://www.truelinetrains.ca/freight-cars/ho---8-hatch-reefer Their STMFC models are very nice stuff. I expect the reefer to be as nice as their other cars. The Canadian

Jeff, No, Model Master - from Testors. http://www.testors.com/category/136645/Acryl_Paints Regards Bruce Bruce, "Model Master"? Did you mean Modelflex? Regards, -Jeff From:

Hi all, Back in 2008 there was a thread about this. But it doesn't answer my questions ... ;-( So is there a 'reference' that covers the 'color scheme phases' and car types for the Hooker