UTLX 103W Red Caboose tank car with Plano walkways. Steve Hile decals, outer edges of main deck walkways reinforced with 0.010" styrene strip. I should have reinforced the dome access walkways that

Here is another refrigerator car, SLRX 4216 at Terminal Island in Los Angeles in April 1958. What type of trucks are these? Richard Wilkens

Was busy doing some scanning and came across this slide of National Car Company NX 6898 taken in October 1956. I find the leasing info interesting as Fruit Growers Express owner lessor, National Car

Thanks Brian, I heard something like this in relation to other cars. Cheers -- Ben Scanlon Tottenham, England

Does anyone know where I can find drawings for the X-3? Kevin

The absence of a decent X-3 in plastic is a never-ending source of mystery to me. Almost 20,000 cars, seen everywhere. Who wouldn't want some, especially if they were done well? -- Dave

Garth, The teeth gnashing, at least from myself and several others that care about tank cars, was that RC choose such an oddball prototype instead of doing a common car. If they had picked the UTLX

It depends on the car class and date it was painted. New boxcars heralds generally had white lettering and outline on black background until 1940-41, when the black background was eliminated.

I have attempted this operation a couple of times and have come close to success. I liken it to filleting minnows. The UMM saw makes this a better possibility. One more try and I think I'll get it. I,

Bob, many thanks for that link. I can't get enough of photo and film material of the good old steam days. NKP made excellent and very profitable use of its steam engines. For a rr mostly in flat

I realize the post was primarily about the boxcars in front of the flour mills. But for those who are also interested in the mills themselves, the Tacoma Grain Co. mill, later the Centennial Mill,

Friends, Here's a collection of C&O's ex-Pullman troop sleepers in MW service. Not exactly freight cars, but IIRC we agreed MW cars counted. The Allied Full Cushion truck appears to be from a

Yup. Built at the same time, in 1951, were the 500 of the 12000 X-3W’s by ACF numbered 49000 – 49499. Steve Hile

>> I would love to know it anyone has ever done this surgery and would love even more to see their results. << Hello Bill, I did this 20 years ago, see attached pic. I found out that the side

Tim, The teeth gnashing about this car was over all the fake-o roadnames RC and IM have issued it in. The list of prototypes for this car was very slim, according to Richard Hendrickson, and some of

As I recall, on of my models I slightly increased the visible depth of the walkways (from side view) with a narrow styrene strip laminated to the outside and inside underside edges of the etchings.

Bill: It's way easier than it looks. I've done two of the Plano conversions. It's fairly quick and painless. More difficult than the walkway is relocating the brake equipment to the correct side of

Steve, Is 49125 one of the 12K X-3 cars mentioned above. This car looks like the Red Caboose model on steroids. Also attached is DODX 12100, the class from which the RC model represents. This would be

For boxcars I switched to Kadee Fenton -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-8106 srrfan1401@...

Let us see photos of this Tim please so we can judge which we like. Bill Welch