Dan, If you weigh both the loaded and empty cars to the same NMRA Standard you won't have "stringlining" and they should run fine. Chuck Hladik

A point of general interest here is: if modelling either a "parent" or a "subsidiary", how should one's car fleet reflect that? As in many other things, I suspect the answer depends on the particular

I have two of the Quality Craft ATSF steel caboose kits with brass wrappers. Neither will ever get built, I¹m afraid; my soldering skills are not that great. On second thought, they might work out

Sounds like the Korean brass caboose NWSL imported years ago with finger prints and crooked parts. eric

I think my "most likely NOT to get built" car is the Flexi-van Flat. I thinks its an old Quality Craft kit. Maybe a Northeastern, I dont know. Robert Federle ---- ed_mines <ed_mines@...> wrote:

Malcolm Laughlin wrote: "You may get a passable imitation of steel in plastic, but there's no way that a plastic model of a wood car will look like wood." Do we have to start this thread again? I

I have to take exception to the notion that cars built from the old kits don't look as good because they don't have as much detail as the new plastic cars. I'm currently building six Silver

A lot of those old kits will never be built - much better kits of the same car came along later or the castings warped or crumbled or the kit was impossible to build by anyone from the very

information are Soo Thanks Dennis. I'll incorporate your data and post an update later today. Best wishes, Larry

That's great, Chuck! Going all the way back to a 1930 magazine took a lot of effort. Well done. So now we are left with a "Naughty Nine?" Best wishes, Larry

<schuyler.larrabee@...> wrote: I can take up some of that slack myself. Maybe all of it if you count unfinished kits that will never be finished. Ed

Typo. The series listed is 75202-75266, although they only show one car remaining as of 1/1/62. Dennis

Oh, I missed this message. All steel, Built 1937 All steel, built 1940 All steel, built 1939 All steel, built 1940 I forgot what year your data is for, but did you pick up on: 75202-75200

Folks, I think I can settle one of the "Terrible Ten". The August 1930 L&N RR Magazine shows L&N boxcar 48888 as as wooden automobile car with sawtooth framing, making it a SS car. Also it appears

Actually, she's well into her 1st resin kit (*with a fair deal of help from me) which is an F&C New Haven NE caboose. We mounted trucks and couplers this weekend. Her second resin kit arrived

I have one Westerfield kit and I don't even model in HO or post 1900 standard gauge. They are the best resin kits out there that I've seen and should serve as an example for others to follow. I can

<schuyler.larrabee@...> wrote: out . . . Not much more than this: Road, AAR, Kind, Series, IL, IH, Door, Capy, Qty DL&W, VS, Ice/SU, 6700-6889, 33'0", 7'6", 4'0", 75000, 48 DL&W, XM, Box/SU,

Hi Folks Thanks to Jack Mullen, Paul Eklund, and Tim Gilbert, nine of the "Nasty Nineteen" car series from the July, 1950 ORER, have been identified as DS, SS, or Steel, leaving us with the "Terrible

Hi Dave, You can pick up this kit from Al Westerfield directly. Check his website at: http://www.westerfield.biz/ Al also has videos on the "How To Do" on building his and other kits. Once on the

Hi, I would like to build a resin kit for the first time and would really like to do a PRR X-23 so does anyone have one for sale or can you point me in the right direction to obtain one. I searched