My O scale PRB helium car weighs 2 lb. 13 oz. 30 discrete tanks have been modeled; whether the tank models are tubes or sold rod is unknown. At the time the models were imported there was some

You misunderstood me Jon. I meant why doesn't IRC cut one set of brake parts for ALL of their own freight cars? The only vendor I know who does this is Accurail. And many vendors do buy from other

Tim, You've got to "lighten up" man! Obviously, you fill them with HELIUM <VBG>. Seriously though, you would use TUBING not SOLID ROD... That would result in a nicely weighted car. Regards Bruce

Tim O'Connor wrote: Isn't this the logic that got all the financial people into the present mess? Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA

set of KC/KD/AB/ABCD brake parts, and be done with it? Instead we get all these crappy blobs. The answer I think must have to do with yields, inventory issues, etc. I really don't know, but since it

Brian, The test shots were at Cocoa, and I believe we commented on them to some extent here. IM was showing 3 cars with different road appropriate details and the consensus was that they were pretty

Ed, didn't one series of C&EI cars (66300-?) have "carbuilder ends" (aka Dartnot)? Do you have specs on those? Tim O'Connor

I understand they have to stay in business and put bogus paint schemes on cars. But can't they at least do things like use magenta paint on the Chateau-Martin GPEX car, instead of the purple they did

But if -every- tube is represented on the model, it must weigh a ton!! Last night I weighed a Jaeger products poles load (60 short sticks) and they weigh 2oz. Imagine if all those sticks were made of

Brian, there is more to it. Intermountain has to pay their bills like everyone else. Frank Angstead said at Naperville they would put a paint scheme from a similar car on any model, as long as

Modeler a Steve: Okay, having seen the picture of the car you're asking about let me say I seem to have been talking through my hat. This is not the same car as the MM articles. Still good articles

I'd have to look at my inventory when I get home, but some of the underframes recently have what appear to be 6" scale brake air pipe, and the whole brake cylinder, triple valve, reservoir, and

Steve: I found the Mainline Modelers concerning 1932 boxcars. The kitbashing article by Jeff English was in June 1985. The article on the protoype 1932 cars was February 1986 by John Nehrich. There

Probably building those Tichy kits in China convinced them that wire is really not that much more difficult and may even save on tooling costs. But one always has to be wary of any Intermountain paint

doing a really good job errors in colors detailing is, well, offering, the PFE R-40- Brian: I don't know about their colours because I don't buy ready-to-run unless I'm desparate to get a particular

There are some subtle differences in WE cars too, like the roofs someone mentioned. Martin never did the Wabash cars because the bracing is slightly different. But I'm glad to see the car in plastic,

I'll keep my eyes peeled. I wouldn't say "Intermountain has been doing a really good job on their models recently" myself; they have made too many egregious errors in colors (among other things) for

Brian: You ask if this is a new model and the answer is yes. Thus far War Emergency boxcars have only been available from resin car makers and this one is plastic. Intermountain has been doing a

Yes, brand new model by IM. Denis Blake North Hamlet Shops, OH