The big D&RGW 50-ft.DS DD cars used this of lumber for sheathing. Some of the FGE/WFE/BRE cars used this material as well. I think it varied between their shops and what the price lumber was at the

I use privet (Ligustrum ovalifolium) from my garden, cut to size and nuke it for 1 to 1.5 minutes in the microwave. Barry Bennett Coventry, England.

Ahem. To repost something I sent almost a year ago: "I was surprised to learn a few years ago that theNorthern Pacific used 'bead and board' or 'novelty' siding on house cars, so therewere not

I asked Dan about it. The wood is from WILLOW branches. It is cut to 12" (?) lengths and allowed to dry out in a jar for a year (I think that's what Dan said), in an upright and straight

Great shot. Des Plaines Hobbies/S Scale America has a great brass kit for an RS-1 and injection molded X-29's in S Scale. Looks like a good modeling opportunity for someone looking for a change of

OK. The biggest problem with scribed material is the grooves are V shaped, and the boards on single sheathed cars are not. I do not agree with using a solid sheet of material, no matter how you

As always, I enjoyed Dave Hussey's photo documentation of the meet. Thanks, Dave! The photos of Dan Holbrook's woodracks (pulpwood loads by Frank Grimm) were of high personal interest. I have been

Marty, Marty, Marty, tisk. tisk, tisk—Yahoo and the internet is so your friend. Around Nov. 4 and 13, 2013 over on the Resin Builder's Yahoo group I posted photos and descriptions of scratch

I do not believe that there is a simple technique to get our desired scaled-down realism of SS board representation. Looking at many photos of single sheathed cars over the years has impressed me with

Dennis, Haven't done any N scale modeling in a few years - got to a point where it was getting hard to see (and hold!) the parts. My layout is HO scale. Was seriously considering building this car

Marty  Having scratch built many British wagons (freight cars ) the easiest way is to start with a plain  sheet of styrene and using an Ofla cutter and a square just scribe the planking in its easy

What scale, Marty? Last I recall, you were in N scale? Dennis Storzek

Marty, You're right about the prescribed material having to deep of a relief. One method you could try playing with is to lightly shave a small champher along the bottom corner of the boards, just

Hello all, When I'm not tearing my layout up and redoing it I've been playing around with scratchbuilding a single-sheathed boxcar. Since it makes perfect sense to build one side, then cast it to

Looks like there’s a CGW X29 style box car back there a ways? ClarkPropst Mason City Iowa

Hi Dick It's only taken us 70 years since 1946 to get it right ! :-) I suppose in 2050 modelers of 1980 will finally be getting correct decals for their cars... :-| Tim O'

Tim & All, The lettering and shape of the 1946 version of the UP medallion from Champ is way off the mark. The medallions on Microscale's current version of 87-414 are vastly superior. There are

Hi Aaron others: Pere Marquette Baltimore & Ohio Southern Pacific Delaware Lackawanna & Western Milwaukee Road My first encounter with the MC was in the 1960's when

Steve, I can try to describe this and hope I can make this clear. This is for HO scale. There are a total of 12 little bits of styrene used to make these and I will refer to the sizes by letter

Jim Dick has dug up a very interesting photo of a MidlandContinental train, from November, 1953. This RR was a short line in North Dakota, with less than 70 miles of track, and owned no fright cars of