Before you paint them, you may want to consider a fix to their biggest shortfall: They sit too high on the rails. Richard Hendrickson published an excellent article how to fix them in the SFRH&MS

With resin kits priced at $40-50 today as a consumer I buy what I think I need, not necessarily knowing anything about the prototype car. I'm depending on the maker to provide me with not only good

According to Red Green, it's manly to throw the instructions away. However, you should keep the set in a foreign language is case you need to look at the photos. Clark "Needing Bill to edit my

Silly me. When you said, "did that un-named manufacturer have any plans for the Soo caboose?" I thought you were looking for drawings, not future production. Dennis

Kit 93.1 says "Panel Rf, Roman Decals". Are you saying that this is a bogus model? It appears to match the photos for the Roman lettered car in the PDS. Note that it is a rect panel roof, not

Thanks again, Steve. - Andy

Bill, Your post regarding the NYC Raised Side Boxcar kits that Martin brought out recently at Naperville stated: If this is so, how does this square with what the information Martin shows on the

List, I asked Terry Link the question regarding the inception date of the Gothic Lettering style on NYC freight equipment as it pertained to reporting marks and dimensional data. He was kind enough

The page is in the photo section under an album called Logs and wheel reports etc Allen Rueter

Pending the list sherif's approval, I've uploaded a photo of page 05 of Bieber 1947 q4 inter change. Here's my take 005 Rg GN MP KCS RG cnw Rg At Milw nyc Q At PFE UCR NP Rdg Q WP Gtw At SP NP RG

Guys Once again there is a problem with a WrightTRAK product. It appears that a few, perhaps as few as 3 or 4, were sold that were not complete. This apparently happened at Trainfest. If you

Jim The instruction sheet was literally thrown together at the last moment. It has been revised to include photos and the like. Here they are. Denis Blake WrightTRAK Railroad Model

Thanks to everyone who responded to my request for the Red Caboose Boxcars!! I think there are enough out there to make a fair sized train. <G> In fact, I think there would be enough to do the

Thank You, Steve. My brother, Bill, will appreciate this. Sincerely, Mark Morgan

Bob, have any further description for the B&O storage cabinet? I can't quite tell from the photos -- did the cabinet have doors when it was new? You might want to look at those photos again... a

Actually, I uploaded this drawing when we were discussing the Blackstone Models NG cars a couple weeks ago. Try Here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STMFC/files/UTL%20Tankcar%20Drawings/ Dennis

I have obtained some undec Atlas HO Hart Ballast cars. I would like to paint these to match some other cars lettered for the Union Pacific. Does anyone know a brand and paint colour that might

Thanks, you've got me looking at X41's for the first time... and I see they have very interesting roofs! And now I see Sunshine has a kit for each of these cars. Cool! Tim O'Connor

Charles, Sunshine resin kits are the only accurate HO Swift meat reefers for the period you mentioned. For the time period: Red Caboose makes an accurate plastic model of a Mather meat reefer. Atlas

Tim: The end door is the difference between and X41 (no end door) and an X41a (end door). As you stated the X41b were single door whereas the X41 and X41a were double door. The X41c was another