I used Scale-Coat Hunter Green. Bill Darnaby

soolinehistory wrote: Perhaps the guys making these PM drawings looked at it and said, "it's not a Hutchins, it's not a Dreadnaught... it's a Murphy." This batch of 1000 cars was the only one that the

Tim,   ....well I guess I could use my teeth.  :>]   Seriously, though, the stryrene is very soft under a sharp exacto blade. 4-5 passes at the most.   Mike

Yah, that's it!    Mike (I wish I build more resin models!)

Another twist are those Canadian owned US railroads such as the CV & GTW. For them load to reroute a car owned by their parent was probably very common. One wonders how many cars spend their entire

Hello Group: I recently finished building a Sunshine Mdels 50 foot wood REA Express Reefer. I want to paint it in the 1950s green scheme with the large red diamond and delux gold lettering. I need

I'd like to thank all who responded to my paint stripping inquiry. Don Janes

Richard, I assume the "vertical roofs" in your message was a typo, which I corrected in the quote above. Now to the meat of the matter. Pere Marquette diagram sheet 21, reproduced on page 63 of Art

I'm just gonna sit here and eat these Youngstown-Murphy-Vulcan, corrugated potato chips. I think it depends on which way I hold them. Even though the bag reads "Ruffles"... Scott Pitzer

Eric, the information you provide about the W&LE cars is all correct, but your message title perpetuates some terminological confusion which it is well to head off before it goes any further.

The progenitor to the IMWX/Red Caboose 1937 AAR roof was the 'O' scale '37 AAR roof done by Intermountain years ago. Sometime later, Intermountain did another fine rendition of the '37 AAR roof when

ED, Thank you for the lead on the book title. To expand on the earlier comment: Because the NP was one of the larger common carrier owners of reefers, I would be very interested in seeing just what

Dennis All of the vendors should simply use the IMWX/Red Caboose roof as the standard. It is perfect. Tim O'Connor

As a Wheeling & Lake Erie modeler, the vertical corrugated rib discussion has caught my attention. It seems this hardware was not employed on large numbers of rolling stock. I only recently discovered

Ah, so that's what the problem was. Somehow I had it in my mind that it was the same as the old "bluebox" car problem, which was too few seam caps, making each roof panel too wide. In this case it's

Schuyler Larrabee wrote: Yes. The P2K panels are too wide, and they end abruptly at the edges of the roof instead of feathering into the edges. Tom Madden

Thanks Mike, guess you can tell I don't buy many plastic models : )) Then I guess I'd keep cutting till I was through on the sides and use a saw to cut across the roof inside the ends, then file

Yes, and now I've provided you with yet another opportunity to do so, complete with phony Stepin Fetchit dialect. Yes, you just did, again, yet, still, once more, encore. You might also point out

Andy I'm well aware of IM's error, but I didn't know that about the IMWX/RC roof fitting the IM body -- thanks, that's a good thing to know. I hope I have enough spare RC roofs on hand. :-) The

And I have been harping for years about the inexcusable rectangular panel roof supplied by Intermountain for their 1937 AAR boxcar. Which is odd, seeing that it WAS Intermountain who cut the tool