Snip... Snip... Bill & Rich, I have checked the colors on a number of Delano Kodachrome photos. The red is weak - one can push it in photoshop and the blueish tint goes away long before the sky turns

Tim O'Connor wrote: You're welcome. I use a piece of styrene strip the same way. And BTW, the info is in the "Safety Applicance" pages of every Cyc. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature

Bill and all. Don't try to make of this anything more than what it is... A yard full of very well weathered PRR hoppers. You say, "to observe the color of the interior of the car in the

Bill, The FCC you reference is close to what I consider to be correct. I tend to look for a little more of an orange cast to fresh FCC. That being said, the color in the photo is what I would

Tony, cool, I didn't know that. I've always used a piece of .030 styrene as a spacer for grabs. That works out to 2.6" HO scale... Tim O'Connor

Mark Heiden wrote: Same as the finger clearance under grab irons: two inches. Two and a half inches "preferred." Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest

Hello everyone, Does anyone know how high grab irons are mounted above the runing board laterals on boxcars? Put another way, how much space should there be between the bottom of the grab iron and

Microscale SGL film prior to application. <http://www.pctools.com/en/spyware-doctor-antivirus/> E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (7.0.0.508) Database version:

Yabbut, we're talking iron ore, not coal here. I suppose the car >could< have been in coal service prior to showing up at Whiskey Island, but the Blue Coal was a DL&W

Iron Ore: Well, I had grown up in MInneapolis and never got to Duluth but twice by the time I was eighteen. I was perhaps just nineteen when I drove up to Aitken, Minnesota. I was on the route from

Dave Nelson wrote: Maybe, but for most of us the operative part is the agreement between UP and SP as part of the settlement of the suit by UP against SP in the 1920s, which resulted in SP's

I think someone (Ambroid?) makes a water based liquid mask that can be brushed on as well, and easily removed after painting w/ an eraser or toothpick.

IIRC some coal loads were painted blue at the tipple. Rod soolinehistory wrote:

Wyoming shows SP box cars to far exceed the SP % of the national population. Q: didn't the federal government, thru the 1899 bond repayment agreement for the CP construction bonds, continue their

I've done this to decals before applying them and brush on a coat of Microscale's liquid decal film prior to application. Jerry Glow

Mike, the SP box car numbers back up Gilbert's ideas. The UP Overland route in that part of Wyoming represents a convergence of traffic from 3 sources -- the SP mainline (on which SP cars are

I avoid spraying too much weathering on the lettering if I can, and then I go back over the results with a fiberglass brush (Micromark) and gently remove the color that got on the lettering. This

Very interesting data. While the box car population does not "match" what the Gilbert/Nelson theory projects...if I understand it correctly [ hedge...always hedge ]...it does fit in the ball park for

Ahem... don't forget the effects of (1) film (2) light (3) scan (4) monitor (5) eyeballs. You may THINK you're looking at the actual colors of the cars... :-) Tim

can different Well . . . OK if you say so. All the taconite I've seen has been rusty red. But in any event, the blueness is on the inside of the car at the top of the side sheets, uniform (more or