Peter, My guess is that unless you load your cars with scale weight the truck springs won't keep them from functioning properly. There are some that operate solid engineering plastic

The new NYC steel boxcars are looking great but has anybody already tried to operate them on a layout? I took a close look at the trucks and the couplers of my cars and I am wondering how they will

Dave, Martin did the SP B-50-12A as a flat resin kit. Paul Lyons

Ron Parisi wrote: Ron, I entirely disagree. Type faces prior to 1960 were indeed as you describe, but VERY few railroads used them for lettering rolling stock. Instead, as has been exhaustively

--- In STMFC@..., Greg Martin wrote: Clark, Good luck on the SP set unless you are willing to use the single sheathed cars you're out of luck, believe me I tried it before Cocoa Beach for

Dear Charlie: What you refer to as sets of drawings for letters and numbers, often of different shape and proportion for different height families were referred to generally as type faces, or the

Saturday we traveled to the Twin Cities for a swap meet. It's almost impossible to find any kits anymore. Anyone planning any project needs to make sure there's a supply of the 'core' model

Dennis had an excellent summary of the nomenclature used in prototype equipment drawings. I would ad that "Lettering & Painting" and "Styling" are terms also used for the class of drawing Dennis

Armand, You can find a list of Black Cat decals and a copy of an order forom on the Great Decals website http://www.greatdecals.com/ Black Cat is primarily for Canadian cars. The Great Decals

No website but go here for a decal list. http://www.greatdecals.com/BlackCat.htm Jim Hayes Portland Oregon www.sunshinekits.com

I have several cars all built looking for a source of appropriate decals.Few of Micro Scale decals meet my current needs.Does Black Cat have a web site?Armand Premo

Joel.  I did a few wood kits ears ago. They were OK to work with.  I have a friend that does wonders with wood kits. He likes to work with HOn3.  Ambroid Silver Streak, Red Ball and Quality-Craft

Hi Dennis, Have started modeling in 1952, I have 97% of my cars are wood, metal, cardboard and plastic cars. I do a lot of scratch building of early freight and passenger cars. I do have a few

Dave.   I run about 90% resin on my layout. That is what draws about 100 people to the layout during a local NMRA function. Next one is the last weekend of April, which I will be open on that Sunday.

That makes sense. I don't recall where I heard that but I do know many of the printing services also offer "clean up". I've dealt with one local service and they don't. I have seen products from

Thanks Bernd, I found the CNW and Q decals I was looking for. Clark Propst

Excuse me? Many of us do run resin and brass and scratchbuilt too. We model our favorite roads and show them off at clubs and shows and don't sit back thinking that we are the best and want to hide

Those folks are runners, not modelers. Different hobby. David Thompson

Tim O'Connor wrote: "Glancing at the 2011 kits list it looks to me like Martin currently offers somewhere around 700-800 kits (and has allowed several hundred kits to expire). This is just a