Armand Premo wrote: "Lack of slope sheet supports is also fixable..." Know thy prototype - the USRA twins did not have slope sheet supports.  See the linked photo in my previous post. Ben

Ray ,I do not consider myself as a "Rivet Counter",but some things about the Accurail Twin hopper really bother me:Some of the detail parts are grossly cast and out of scale,The brake lever is an easy

Ray Breyer wrote: "Remember, the Tichy USRA twin hopper is almost 18" too long. Accurails, while having cast-on grabs, are the correct length. That in itself makes the Tichy (Gould) model much more of

Tim O'Connor wrote: I placed an order online last Wednesday (9-9), money was transfered from PayPal on 9-11, decals arrived this AM in the mail. Matt Forsyth Modeling the D&H Penn Division Erie

Tried Five different brands of Reefer yellow without an acceptable match,Polly Scale included.Armand Premo

Hi Armand, Remember, the Tichy USRA twin hopper is almost 18" too long. Accurails, while having cast-on grabs, are the correct length. That in itself makes the Tichy (Gould) model much more of a

Bob,   NC&StL #70229, Class FM-9, was built by ACF in July 1926.  This car was the prototype for the Gould pattern.    It used Dahlman trucks and had straight sidesills with a fish belly

Bob Kutella asked: “A friend (and member here) scanned the insert in the set of Champ decals that I have ordered. The immediate question is do any of you know what color the TICHY flat car kits were

--- In STMFC@..., "trolleycar68" <68trolley@...> wrote: Stay tuned, I may come begging here yet again. A friend (and member here) scanned the insert in the set of Champ decals that I

Doesn't their web site have a listing of which paint was used on which models? I seem to remember that all were Pollyscale, but that reefer yellow might not necessarily be what was used on a

I have recently tried to upgrade an Accurail reefer.All went well until I tried to match the paint.I never knew there were so many different shades of yellow.What would you suggest that I use? Armand

Tim,How would you compare Accurail's twin hopper with Tichy''s?Too much work needs to be done on Accurail's car to make it an acceptable model IMHO.For those who need large numbers of twin hoppers

Ed Sutorik asked: "Anyway, Atlas has announced another run of their USRA rebuilds. I did a search of this list, and it appears the cars MIGHT work for ACL and/or Frisco. But those list-comments

Bill and All, Off line I sent Wayne a couple of photos of the Shake N Take Accurail Reefer we did in the past and one that was done later representing the Needham Packing/Sioux City Dressed Beef

While the first batch of these Atlas cars were 10 panel, the current run appears to be 8 panel. Ed Edward Sutorik

Ed Sutorik asked: "Anyway, Atlas has announced another run of their USRA rebuilds. I did a search of this list, and it appears the cars MIGHT work for ACL and/or Frisco. But those list-comments

Hear hear Bill! Sometimes it feels like it takes me just as long to finish an "RTR" model as a resin kit (tank cars excepted) ;-) Tim O'Connor

Accurail is not in the "hi fidelity" business (like Sunshine) but they aim to provide products to a wider market at a much lower price. Accurail makes many very useful products to scale modelers (esp

I "feel you" Greg in terms of upgrading. I am resigned to the fact it seems to take me the same amount of time to do build, paint and decal a styrene kit, no matter whether it is RC, IM, Accurail,

Hi Greg-- Tx to you and the rest for your comments. I too like Accurail,very much. Otherwise the subject would not have come up and I hope that nobody is taking offense at the question. I've been