How about sheet metal flashing? I don't see a "hat" profile or even a reason to think it is structural (i.e. bracing). I believe some of the CNR GT cars (similar to the Accurail 4100 series

For those of you who found that I was sold out of ladder etchings last weekend in Naperville, please note that I will be restocked by Wednesday of next week and will be happy to fill any orders at

I have now committed all of the 14 extra handouts to interested parties as of 5:21 PM today. Thanks! Bill Welch

Good Evening All, Andy Laurent and I are collaborating on a series of posts about prototype waybills. We're going through the waybills in his collection one by one, and trying to understand the

Does anyone have one of these TLT models, and if so can you provide a quality report? Thanks, John John Golden O'Fallon, IL

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Hello the Group: Westerfield Models is please to announce our newest Kit Release: #12101 Rock Island B-2 Conversion Single Deck Stock Car, available now at the introductory price of $37.00 plus

Marty: I'm sure that this answer will elicit the correct term so here goes: how about a "drip sill" as it seems to me that its function is to keep water out of the braces. I avoided the obvious 'drip

Dennis, First of all, thanks. Secondly, don't sell my ignorance short. I'm not sure "plate" automatically implies top member - at least to me. There is a steel plate at the bottom of the end on these

I hate to reply to my own reply, but it occurs to me that the word top is redundant, since "plate" implies it is the top member. Here is the definition of "end plate" from the 1922 CBC: End Plate. A

Structurally, it's the "end frame top plate." Older designs used an angle section; this design used a pressing. "Pressed steel end top plate" might work. Dennis

I'm trying to write a blog post on the Central Vermont's 40000-series Howe truss boxcars (ACF, 1924) and can't find the right term to describe perhaps the most unusal spotting features of these cars

You took the words right out of my keyboard, Al. That looks almost exactly like Tichy's truck. Tim O'

Hi, Robert - While our current sample model has the steel running board (and a missing running board support on the 'A' end), for the first run, all of the versions will have a wood running board.

This link is to site for N-scale but they have a lot of trucks to help with I.D It looks to be a barrett whitehead trucks on caboose www.visi.com/~spookshow/trucks/trucks.php Alan

I have 14 handouts left from my presentation at the recent Naperville Prototype Modelers event entitled "North from Florida" which really is about the movement of perishables from the Southern

I didn't realize you were talking about 10'6" cars. Yeah, the only 12 panel riveted 10'6" cars are from C&BT. Or you could use the old Front Range car bodies (quite nice IMO) and add Archer rivets.

Aren't the IM cars 10 ft IH. I think I have some old C&BT kits squirreled away. But I need to check the ends. Brian Carlson

More precisely, the CP cars had wood running boards. However TrueLine Trains is also offering the models decorated for the PGE and BCOL.. Many CP cars acquired second-hand by the PGE and BCOL were

Didn't Sunshine do the 12 panel DL&W cars? Should be an easy kitbash from Intermountain. Tim O'