Never! Too bad, Mike, a great new model and you can't use even one. But maybe you can somehow pursuade Trix to do a 1932 ARA box car lettered for the Warrior River Terminal. I'm sure those turned

Richard Hendrickson wrote Maybe. But that statement does run 180 degrees to a statement you made regarding Santa Fe stock cars just a few years ago... (Ain't email awful? -- Everything you've ever

Marty McGuirk wrote I love a challenge!! :o) Let's see... can't be an SP stock car, since that would be very useful to UP modelers. (Which reminds me, why the heck didn't you go a Harriman stock car

Tim, I have numerous photos of ex-R7s in FGEX service (as well as in NX service) and will be happy to send you scans of some of the better ones. Unfortunately, getting decent models of these

David Soderblom writes: True, David, but only up to a point. Citing Martin's "kits of truly obscure prototypes" muddies the water because tooling costs for resin kits are trivial by comparison with

Shawn (and others): Think neither. The best parallel I can conjure is the modeling parallel to RP Cyc. There will be prototype photo coverage, but modeling is the end goal. Much like RP Cyc

kenedmier@... wrote: Nonsense - at least in the UP Wheel Reports that I have parsed. Each had one N&W Hopper, while all had no ATSF Stock Cars. Tim Gilbert

I'm sure they did . . . I've got a picture here somewhere . . . . ah, there it is. Yup, Sherman Hill, ATSF stockcars right behind that string of N&W hoppers . . . .;<)!!! Sorry, couldn't

Tim, If you think the Santa Fe stockcar was an "odd" choice -- wait until you see the next all-new injection molded car I've got up my sleeve. I'll send one to Richard to build (he, and about

Hello Group, The discussion of the A-50's reminded me of a question I've been meaning to ask. I've built a Westerfield A-50-4 which I had intended to letter for GTW. The excellent data sheet

Richard Hendrickson writes: "And I'm in the process of "Beta testing" a couple of kits, which I'm finding to be among the best engineered and most accurately detailed HO freight cars ever.

Ted Culotta wrote: Ted, I'm not clear on something here; is this going to be an online "zine" like TKM or a real live magazine we can subscribe to? If the latter, where do I sign up? Shawn Beckert

From Tim O'Connor: C'mon, Tim. It's Santa Fe. Sales will be off the chart. Inside tip: forget the RTR models and get kits, which can be lettered with Ted C.'s excellent decal sets. I just

Tim O'Connor writes: I just replaced the whole Trix fiasco with a new Red Caboose floor and underframe. Making it fit took minimal effort and I then had the correct bolster height and draft gear

Not, perhaps, for your purposes, Mike, since you model the mid-'50s. But the A-50-19 lettering was all yellow, whereas the original A-50-16 lettering was white with yellow slogans. Of course, your

--- In STMFC@..., David Soderblom <drs@s...> wrote: "....modelers don't buy kits because of the prototype populations but instead because they want the car in question." I didn't think

I think Ted meant to write "Prototype Railroad Modeling"... (If it turns out to be called Prototype Model Railroading, people will get it mixed up with Model Railroading (also known as "DING") and it

Hello all, I'll weigh in on this as another one of the manufacturers who thought very seriously about the '32 cars as a styrene project -- and then wisely thought the better of it. (and that hurt,

Richard; Well said. Paul C. Koehler

To clarify the models in the article: IC cars blt. 1937, kitbash from Trix NS cars built 1937, kitbash from Trix all Sunshine Red Caboose, although the doors will be "doorbashes" as the doors