Bill McCoy asked: Bill, As I understand it, the RC 10K welded tank car is only correct "out of the box" for the U.S. Army scheme as shown

I have had very good luck with Accu-Paint and acetal plus other enginnering plastics. It likes to stick to it if you prime the material with an acetone wipe or do a Al2O3 media blast to roughen up the

lrkdbn wrote: No and King Packing lost it's appeal to the Supreme Court in a 1956 case over wages for time spent sharpening knives. Dsave Nelson

Are there prototypes for the Red caboose 103W Shell yellow and red tank car (Car number is SCCX 603) and the Walthers 10,000 gal tank car? Bill McCoy, Jax

Tom Madden wrote Tom, I think the "Daily Show" could use someone with your talents! You are raising the bar for the rest of us. Tim "Mr. Obfuscationalism" O'Connor

Tim, Certain stripes are easier to do than others and I'll leave it that. One of the issues with the MON (CIL) stripe is the ladder which is also painted white at the top and our ladders are made

Tom, It is my understanding that Lloyd Keyser did them for Richard Hendrickson. I have no idea who is in possession of the masters. Richard H. I am sure can give you a clearer answer to your

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Jace Kahn opines- Well, Jace has that exactly right. However, I also easily succumb to the art of fine silk screening, and in this regard some finely-built Main Line cars can be truly attractive

Tim O. puzzled over the word: It's French, "le hossier", referring to an uncouth member of the lower class. The root for the Canadien term "hoser", with the same meaning. Also the title of an obscure

Thanks Bill, Since we do not yet have a printed MON car to photograph for our web site we hurried and did a rough graphic image. The lettering will be black on a white stripe. Sam Clarke Kadee

Santa Fe Depot with five railroad cars loaded with shipment McCormick-Deering tractors for the M. Eltiste Company, Orange, California, May, 1922. [The location is now listed as 186 North Atchinson

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Thanks for pointing that out Bill! Here's a picture of Mont Switzer's model: http://steamfreightcars.com/calendar/2002/nap02/cil861.html Tim O'Connor

It's good to see a Monon PS-1 with THL stripe but the photo in the website gives me cause for concern. Mont can confirm this but THL lettering should be black on a very light gray stripe. I hope the

Hossier? :-) Sam, I don't expect you to reveal any trade secrets, but since Kadee did the Rutland cars and other striped cars (G&F?) I just assumed they could handle horizontal "stripes" of any kind.

Hello Group, I thought I'd chip in a few comments. We have quite a number of photos of the Birmingham Southern 40 foot PS-1s. They came from the factory with both 6 foot 7 panel Superior and

Mr Hom, I just dug out the photo I have of the DL&W express boxcar sans the "Phoebe Snow" lettering. It is #10013, so its from the same group. Not being as knowledgeable as you guys, I would have

Hello Tim, Accurail offers 6ft Pullman Standard doors as part #116. These are probably former McKean parts. Mark Heiden

I know from past conversations with Sam Clarke that stripes that extended over the doors have been a problem for Kadee to reproduce. Hopefully this is a good sign that Kadee has overcome this and we