- If CJR wants to make the brass ends available for that, yes.> Despite having once been in the resin casting business, I'm not inclined to do it, but I would be cooperative if someone else wanted

Tony, Richard, and Mike, thanks. We can always count on y'all for useful information. -- Frank Greene Memphis, TN

I heard that Ted Culotta had a great method of removing these details and described it in RC. Can anyone recall this? Mike Wilson Terre Haute, IN

The C&O "dreadnaught" style ribbed hopper car ends, were made by a now defunct hobby shop in Hampton VA. He was going out of business when I first found him almost ten years ago. I talked him into

A modified (width of the blade narrowed) chisel blade for your Exacto handle works well, also... just be careful which direction you are applying the pressure (away from your body parts)... Clark

Francis A. Pehowic, Jr. wrote: That may be right. They also made square hatches for covered hoppers, back when you had to backdate MDC covered hoppers. I have a set of the hatches, really very

I remember these parts. I know that someone knows the source of these but my curiosity has the best of me. Were they sold as Capart? Francis A. Pehowic, Jr. in Sunbury,

Al Kresse: If CJR wants to make the brass ends available for that, yes. Tom Madden

Were they like the "Premium End Nippers" at the bottom of this page? http://www.ppe.com/10cat/0152.pdf I THINK PPE will take credit cards, but they may have a minimum order. If so, check their web

Tim & Al,                 One of the best ways to eliminate the scarring on plastic surfaces is to use 0000 fine steel wool. It polishes the surface while removing trace scratches. I've

I love the discussions going on here, but as a favor to those of us who read this in digest form, could posters please refrain from quoting every prior post in the thread in their replies? It makes

Can a limited run set of resin-cast parts be easily made off of soft tooling made off these brass model ends? Al Kresse

Actually there used to be a tool that is ideal for removing molded-on grabs. I was lucky enough to get one about 30 years ago from Klein Tools. (I worked for an electrical distributor that carried

Roy Hurlburt, then a member of the C&O Historical society made them . . . . way back in the 90s.  They were offered through the Society. Al Kresse

Correct! .A.Premo

Rich; Peters Creek is the one I am thinking of, and I also wonder if there was any link to the Westinghouse site and/or USSteel. Elden

Nope. They were made for the Athearn car. Al's parts are all from his kits.

That's a good one... for about the same price I've picked up a dozen stainless steel dental instruments with various shapes and sizes of cutting heads. They don't flex like the X-Acto blade does when

I tried a new method this week that works very well -- I used my 'fine' sprue nippers to remove ladder rungs from a box car ladder, including the bolt detail. Then I glued them in place as

Al, Micro-Mark makes a tool that you can use to remove cast-on ladders, grabs and other offending items without damaging the car bodies. I have the standard sized model and really does work! It is