Back when I had more time than money I built my own spray painting booth. That was over 40 years ago. I took an end from a wooden wire reel abut 24 inches in diameter and cut it in half so I had a

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I was looking at photos on the Library of Congress website and found these from Omaha with freight cars. Most were taken November 1938, but I think one is from 1941. Paul Krueger Seattle, WA Unloading

LPTC, please. The X didn't come until after 1926. Ray Breyer Elgin, IL

Dip the model in thinner overnight, blast with alu oxide, wash & dry, then a light mist of Vallejo gray primer, paint with Tru-Color, decal and finish with Vallejo satin. Fred Jansz

I would guess the marks are LPTX. I can read TRANSIT on the sill under the door. I would assume this is a Live Poultry Transit Company car LPTX. Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

Fred, I suppose there were reefer blocks within hot freight trains as a convenience for re-icing enroute. What I meant to imply is that most of the customers had sidings with a very short capacity,

Photo: GN Boxcar 24368 - Beer & Forward Facing Rocky A 1937 photo from the Tacoma Public Library Digital

Photo: Poultry Car A photo from the Digital Horizons (http://www.digitalhorizonsonline.org/digital/about)

Bill W, I understand those were a later addition. The Rapido models reflect many as-Built characteristics of the prototypes. Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

Yep, mass painting doesn’t work with that paint, though I once primed twelve stock cars in a makeshift cardboard paint booth in the garage. I still prime in the garage, but I do one car at a time

Still not seeing the eave boards along the top of the sides. Bill Welch

Beautiful job! Perfect attention to detail with the Raceland paint stencil and the light weathering. Chris Rooney

Bill, Thank you for the newer photo. After comparing the two for awhile, I saw that the spacing of the side rungs on the early one was uneven, with the lower two rungs close together. I am indeed

Nelson Ok, thanks! I may have been too far from the work. The paint I used is the "fine surface primer". But I should say that the powder residue

Wow! As a WP ànd reefer fan/modeler/collector I'm thrilled to be able to archive your extensive research Garth. Always wondered if I should include some of these meat reefers in my collection. And

I've painted over a hundred brass models and have never used vinegar, and only once used a grit blaster because there was oxidation on the model. "Unpainted" brass is

My 2 cents... Disassemble As noted by many, remove the clear coat (stripper, sometime grit blaster) Always etch in some way - I grit blast with baking soda. A note that baking soda is not nearly as

Mal, Why do you etch in vinegar and then grit blast? To me that means that one of the two of those approaches is not working 😉. I would simply grit blast to give "tooth" and remove any tarnish or

Dumb question... how does that "unloading crane" get to the closer cars? It would seem highly inefficient for the crane to unload a car, shunt that car somewhere, unload the next, etc... Now, the