The Scalecoat II line is safe for plastic. The Scalecoat I line requires a little caution when appling directly to unpainted styrene, much like the old Floquil line. For clear coats though you'll be

Dan and Pierre, thanks, I'll have to try scalecoat. I assume it is safe on plastic. Brian J Carlson P.E. Cheektowaga NY

Brian - This is a technique that has been used regularly to weather freight cars. Another coat should clear up the problem. It's worth trying before you get involved in stripping the

Brian, For a variety of reasons, including the one you've cited, I've stopped using Testors Dullcote & Glosscote. I'm now using exclusively Scalecoat's Gloss and Flat finishes. I'm particularly

Over the long weekend I finished three models, and was spraying the final clear coat over the paint and lettering, Testor's Dullcote in this case. Well, the humidity is a little high and when I came

If memory serves me correctly, the 1940 Car Builders' Cyc contains detailed drawings. This is the volume reprinted by Kalmbach some years ago. Didn't know that DT&I or Union Carbide had some of

FWIW, Precision Scale did models of the ERIE cars quite some time ago. They're very nice (and heavy, as some parts are cast brass). They're accurate, too. They appear on eBay every coon's

Michael, Erie also had 50 of the cars, series 20000-20049 (O.O. 202), as well as private owner Union Carbide, who bought a total of 11 cars in 4 orders from 1935 to 1941 (O.O. 218 - 2 cars, O.O. 231 -

There's a partial side shot of NYC 177999 in Grenard and Krause's "The Overland Route", p 34: shows tabbed side sill and "Bettendorf" trucks of generic appearance (not Dalmans or National B-1s; the

Good afternoon; I am looking to see if drawings have ever been published for this configuration of car. The Detroit Toledo & Ironton had a small fleet of these cars #11800-11814 that were built

Ted: You need to get, Volume Two, Refrigerator Cars: Ice Bunker Cars 1884-1979 . by Keith Jordan, Richard H. Hendrickson, John B. Moore and A. Dean Hale which is available

I'm seeking information about SFRD reefers with plug doors as shown

Many mid-western roads Add to Doug's comments: When a gondola was spotted at the coal shed's trackside door (most elevators had coal sheds) it could have been unloaded by day labor. I know/knew guys

Gary, Please contact me by private e-mail or by snail mail (address below). My server says your domain is bogus, even though it worked fine last week. Kind regards, Garth G. Groff Mallard

Hello everyone, I'm looking for information and photos of some New York Central boxcars, Lot 799-B, series NYC 177800-178299. These were 50ft boxcars with 8ft doors, were built at Despatch shops in

Denny, Sounds like it might be an old Laconia or Mainline (now Ye Olde Huff n' Puff) kit. Don't know if it has a real PEP prototype. Certainly not a Mather car. PEP used to ship eggs out of the

Ted Larson wrote: There is much more specific info in Richard Hendrickson's chapter on GN freight cars, contained in Pat Dorin's _Great Northern Lines East_ which we published. Tony Thompson

That was so long ago and I was in grade school then, so the memories are faint and it is difficult to comment. Seems I read in the GNRHS magazine that there many trains on the St.Cloud-Twin Ports

Charlie Vlk wrote: "'War Emergency' cars were standard ARA (ARR??) designs that had the sides replaced with steel exposed steel truss and single sheathing to save on steel. IIRC the NP and GN had

I happened to pick up a copy of The Railroad Press, Issue 70, in a Borders Friday. I admit that I was snared by the (out of our era) photo of the EL Bicentennials on the cover, but what this list may