Tucker's Hobbies in Warren, Mass. has a good supply of Precision Scale parts. You might give them a try. I was there Friday night and they had a ton of PSC parts. www.tuckershobbies.com Although

Schuyler Larrabee said: Typical Walthers strategy: their message should read, "out of stock, but we're not ready to order." This occurred with many of their slower moving parts, giving people the

From: "Scott A. Reed" Early on in my modeling career, I was trying to order PS parts from Walthers. Always "out of stock, backorder." At that time I lived in the Bay area, and PS was in Woodland

Standard industry practice in the teens and '20s was to provide a ladder and dome platform on one side only. Buyers could specify ladders and platforms on both sides, and many did, but they paid

These weren't Pullman-Standard PS-5s, Brian, as that standard design didn't appear until the mid-1950s (it's not shown in the 1953 CBCyc.) Hard to tell what they might have been without

According to the MR index of magazine articles, there was a plan for this car in the Narrow Gauge and Short Line Gazette: Hetch Hetchy RR Motor car #21 and #22 Narrow Gauge & Short Line Gazette,

HELLO AND HAPPY NEW YEAR: Like the start off the year right and ask a question...looking for data on BM-MEC head end box cars(freight box cars?? and LCL cars)used in late 30's into 1951(in HO)which

I have always found ordering direct from them the best way. $20.00 minimum but you can always fill that amount pretty easy, at least I can... Air hoses and what nots.... Walthers shows alot of there

Armand Premo asked: There were certainly many examples. One I know well, the SP, bought all its tank cars this way from about 1915 to 1942. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley,

DENNY..Give me a snail mail address and will put a check in mail for $175 this day!!! Joel Norman

Trying to track down specs, drawings, photos of P-S's all steel, fixed ends, flat bottom gon from late '40s-early '50s, I think. CGW bought 300 of these in 1951-52. The April 1968 ORER listed these

Seeking information on tank cars with ladders and platforms on one side only.Was this practice widespread?Was it unique to one type car or one owner ?Any information would be appreciated.Armand Premo

I'm still confused but in a different way. The RMC review also points out the height problem re ACY 1140, the number used on the P2K model. So, what is the number series that P2K SHOULD have used for

Ed Mines writes: I don't remember the QC kit, Ed, but it could well have been based on the material in the '25 Cyc, as many of the early craftsman kits followed drawings and photos in various

For those that are wondering that is a very reasonable price for a 1940 Car builders. Rich Yoder

I am making some "inventory reductions", and I find that I have a duplicate very-much-intact 1940 Car Builders Cyclopedia, Simmons-Boardman 1375 pp. The cover is not loose. There is some water

20-25 years ago Qualitycraft offered a single sheathed, 40 ft. MILW double door box car kit. Is this the car you described Richard? I always assumed it was the one in the '25 CBC but never

Oops - "dead hobby shop" should read "dead hobby shop stock." Kind of hard to patronize a dead shop. Ben Hom

Richard Hendrickson wrote: IIRC, someone (F&C?) once offered a resin kit for the original version. It was F&C - Kit No. 3301, currently out of production (along with the SS WAB auto boxcars). Keep

John Campbell said: Ted is in fact still with us, but his photo collection has been donated to the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association, at the Rio Vista Museum. Tony Thompson Editor,