This might be useful for suggestions on what models to produce next. This is copied from the HO yard sale group and I have nothing to do with it. It may or may not be helpful for new models. Jon

I am pleased to announce the following new decal sets. All are available right now, in HO and N Scale. NW-03 Norfolk & Western GATC 2600 Airslide Hoppers

The 125 ton GSC depressed center flats are not common, but I have seen them many times railfanning, and many railroads owned them. They generally travel in ordinary freight trains (unlike the Schnabel

Tim, While Champ's HB-178 has been out-of-production for years, there may be another way to get one direct from Champ. On the back of the invoice for my recent Champ order, they are now

Steve Hile wrote: Good point, Steve. Whoever does it would sell a ton. Modelers love rare, unusual or just plain weird cars. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906

Under the heading of what the country needs is a good 5 cent cigar (or heavy duty flat car): I wonder why no one has offered the GSC cast steel depressed center car that a bunch of railroads seemed

In addition to the one imported by CB, Lobaugh offered the car in kit form, and Sunset/3rd Rail recently imported them in J&L and one or two other (likely bogus) schemes. Rod oscale48@...

Rich, Thanks for the insight, might of been in HO?? Didn't Mann also do it in "O"? Regardless of scale, still looking to find out if any of those cars ran for Barrett, hauling the same

Bill Schneider wrote: True enough, BIll, and I've done the same. One trick I learned from John Signor is to clean up and square up the art in Photoshop, very easy activities with the powerful

Thank you Bruce, I thought about that after I hit send. Naturally a heavy load would be placed on stripping and that in itself would be a deterent to skidding (steel to steel). Sorry, should have

A search for "making your own decals" will provide a good bit of useful info. KL

True enough Tony, but far better results can be gained by using Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw, both vector graphics programs. Without getting to far into the details for the group (I know you're

I missed that clinic. I'd like to see it. Tim O'

Tim O'Connor wrote: If you have a good proto photo, it's not that hard in Photoshop to create artwork for decals. I've been working on some for west coast oil company tank cars; already did

Hi Matt,    Custom brass imported the model several years ago in "O" Scale I wasn't  aware of one being done by Overland. Rich Yoder

Listers, Was curious if anyone could provide any insight into the later disposition of the 20K gallon Jones and Laughlin tank cars. As we all know, they spent nearly all their lives in captive

Tony LOL. Yeah right. I've got my eye open for Champ HB-178 which has this lettering. Tim O'Connor

Tim O'Connor wrote: Hey, Tim, do the artwork and get decals made, and I bet you could sell any you don't use to this group! <g> Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley,

Wow thats one of the reasons, Tim! Just have to have one! Sincerely, Mark Morgan

Richard, Thank you very much for this informaiton. I now have enough information to get myself in trouble. It is time to order a few additional modeling supplies and get this project off the