Hi List Members, Image of UP 81682 gon Denver CO 1910s?1920? https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/kTkAAOSwxGFgAcFn/s-l1600.jpg More info at the link below... https://www.ebay.com/itm/133638638726

Hi List Members, Image of an IC 40ft ds boxcar and a CB&Q composite gon at Franklin Cnty Coal Co Illinois 1939 https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/DF0AAOSwvoxgCdec/s-l1600.jpg More details can be

Mark! Thanks for this find, that is the caboose, EXCEPT that the trucks are different. The one in the linked images has outside hanger brakes, where as the trucks for the subject model do not. I

From Brian Sones: 1) Car Ends -There is a rounded version and a Square (flush end) Square ends - carbody 2) The bolster ends. -There is a Square and Rounded end

Hi List Members, A nice trio of composite gons in 1949 at a Commonwealth Edison Chicago area coal fired power plant. I am not an expert, but they look like other IC composite gons I have seen. I

There is an entry on the BrassTrains.com website that looks a lot like your model that indicates it was imported by PFM in 1964. The detail on your model looks to be about that vintage. Although

Thanks, Gary, that ties it down pretty well, I’d say. Two windows on the non-smokestack side 1965-66 The packaging is consistent, in my experience, with that time period. United model, so PFM

Add me to the list of Star Brand being a good paint and not an Acrylic. It is great on brass or plastic. I model U.P. and D&RGW narrow gauge in Ho. I am not saying I'm an expert on the D&RGW short

Looks like N&W 95762 to me. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

Years ago, when prolific author to model magazines, Jim Six, offered detailing diesel locomotive articles he was a huge advocate for AccuPaint painting. I was influenced and based largely on his recs.

Hi List Members, We get a nice view of N&W coal hauling cars, including a N&W gon loaded with coal, in the image linked below. Sadly, the gon reporting marks are just a little too indistinct to make

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The PFM catalogue pictures show truss rods and two trucks on the caboose. The 9th Edition does not have a reference to the date of its issuance but likely 1965-66. Gary Laakso

Star brand paint, a P-B-L exclusive, is a lacquer and should only be thinned with Star Brand Lacquer Thinner. The multi-paint layer weathering technique using fiberglass and wire brushes is

That helps, Gary. What year is the 9th edition? In response to Todd, the label (yes, on the bottom there was something over it) doesn’t say PFM, it simply says United Scale Models And at the

Yes, too many years with SPT. Gary Laakso

Hi Schuyler, I think Dave's and Bruce's points were that NY State was 'home turf' for SOCONY (Std Oil Company of NY), but other 'baby Standard Oil' brand service stations and dealers were found in

gary laakso wrote: I assume Gary means PFM? Tony Thompson tony@...

The PFE 1963 catalogue (8th Edition) shows two windows on the side on the smoke stack side. The same caboose with the dual windows on the smokestack side is shown in the 7th Edition catalogue. The

Schuyler, I don't want to tout the obvious, but the PFM label on the caboose (the bottom, I assume) identifies it as a PFM product, and it definitely has the appearance of a D&RGW narrow gauge caboose