wrote: standard PRR freight recollection of a very recent load. Even today, this is braking). the cars that look was too aggressive Interesting observations, Dale. The one I find interesting is the

One has a lot of leeway in matching STMFC colours. Group, The hopper behind the one being loaded has "two" colors on one car, and it triggered a recollection of a very recent conversation with modern

Builder's photos for the horizontally braced hopper cars are available from Keith Retterer: New York, Susquehanna & Western 10000, dated 3/1912 is number 561 Erie 31000, dated 2/1914 is photo number

Thanks, Bob, another reason I need your book. It's on my Christmas list. I was about halfway through the research I needed to do. SGL hat-shaped horizontal ribbed Company. The Erie with car

The Z-section horizontal ribbed hopper cars were built by Standard Steel. The pressed-steel, hat-shaped horizontal ribbed hopper cars were built by the Pressed Steel Car Company. The Susquehanna

Many military vehicles use an olive green-type color. Adding white to lighten usually doesn't work well, as you found. The solution that has developed over the years is to use a WW II German color

A good place to start with older grey-greens is to assume that it is likley to comprise a basic mix of black, yellow and white which may be adjusted with a few more expensive pigments. The original

I haven't tried to "chalk" stencilled lettering, but I do try to make chalk *marks* look like they've smeared a bit. For carmen's marks I use Sunshine decals, over which I put a little white powdered

Hello Larry: I've been going through some B&M conductor books that date to 1944 and also some that go back to 1925 and find that "C" cars are indeed a mix of both hoppers and gons. I guess if you

What I was looking for when I wanted a paint alternative to Accupaint (and >>really<< need now!) was the light gray-green used in the horizontal band on ERIE passenger equipment. Some

Hi Eric, There were two series of horizontal rib cars. The first was built with channels for the horizontal ribs. That proved to be problematic, as the channels trapped water, and that combined

Tim,       Excellent points!   Bob McCarthy

I'm working on an HO scale F&C resin kit for an Erie horizonal rib hopper car. The builders image shows horizontal members of pressed steel shapes, while in-service images from the 1930s and 1940s

Barry Roth wrote: This is something you see on box cars too, with white lettering looking way too bright compared to the car side. The usual explanation is that the paint "chalked" and sloughed

Barry I have a JPG color sampling of ACF box car reds from Ed Hawkins, each color on a vertical strip, all the same size. If I change the "background" color of the strips from white to black,

Kurt, please identify a single example. Can you identify a single example? The point is that color shots of yards show many different color shades. It's not that you shouldn't try to be in the

Hi, Tim restates and "re-examples" something I've been going on and on about for over a decade now. Even after weathering in which considerable care is taken to ensure "lots" of variations from

On those dirty ol' reefers the UP and SP heralds/logos stand out is though they do not have the same coat of smuts as the rest of the sides. Except for the repack fields, the cars do not otherwise

Translations for the non-UP experts out there: ROTS: "Road Of The Streamliners" SAW: "Serves All the West" BSSUP: "Be Specific - Ship Union Pacific" Regards, -Jeff Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009