I appreciate the info Bob but i am modeling October 1955 when the stenciling would be very different. Also for this particular design I am only focused on the "Ya'll" roads that owned them, originals

CC&O, DL&W, LV, D&H, B&O, BR&P, P&R, NYC, ERR, NYNH&H & BLE are listed on the United States Standard lettering diagram for 55-ton hopper cars dated Oct. 1919 - stenciling drawings and details are

A few years ago the Boys at the Clearwater Car Shops built a few of the Tichy USRA 2-bay hoppers for their favorite railroads. Some purest don’t like this kit because the two middle panels are wider

“Well, I shoveled s417 in Louisiana” Thanks! Brian Ehni (Sent from my iPhone)

What did you do in the Great World War Two? One extra point if you recognize the movie. Jim Gates

Crappy job, indeed, especially if the loading or unloading happened with human muscle power. My late Dad worked at the Woodland, Yolo County, CA Spreckels plant up though the early 1950s and I can

The gondola must have been loaded on that siding behind city hall. gary roe quincy, illinois

From the Illinois Digital Archives - Pantagraph (Bloomington IL local paper) Collection. Frisco gondola with manure being unloaded from Chicago 3/24/44. This is a C&A siding near the Funk Bros Seed

Bill Just a historical note - some of the original Front Range kits were painted with "Accupaint" (actually Fred B showed the supplier to SMP) but the pad print

Schuyler, have you tried Scalecoat paint remover? I use it for removing paint and stripping cars.It will take off more than the lettering. -- Fenton Wells 250 Frye Rd Pinehurst NC

Schuyler, I don't see how you can remove the lettering w/o removing the underlying silver. As Tim suggests it is in kit form, remove the paint and repaint. I have had great result removing paint on

is it a kit or RTR? if a kit, I'd just strip the tank and repaint it. Small amounts of lettering can be removed easily enough with various techniques, but CONOCO is a

Everybody loves a good mystery, right? I'm holding an old MDC rib-side 3-bay (HO) with the longitudinal ballast gates. The crossdump version was long ago superseded by the Atlas 9-panel 3-bay (has

I should have asked this years ago. I have a couple of these which are lettered CONOCO. I would very much like to remove the lettering, but I’d also like not to lose the silver paint on the

Friends, Nothing too exciting for experienced modelers in my latest blog post about tank cars on my Modeling the B&O Old Main Line, but I did have success removing printed numbers from Kadee tank cars

The Mid-Atlantic Railroad Prototype Modelers meet will be held in Linthicum (Baltimore), Maryland on September 19-22, 2019. Full information is available at http://www.marpm.org/ Two full days of

The best description might be Rebuilt hopper. In the 1954 ORER, EJ&E had about 1700 hoppers with identical dimensions in the series 40000 - 41699. With a little digging and some help from Ed

A fairly decent website on the Army's small tugs: http://www.usarmysttugs.com/index.html Jim Gates

The tender is an Oriental Limitied PRR class 210f82a Welded tender with the 3 man dog house and 8 wheel trucks. This version also has the "Trainphone" equipment on it as well. Matthew

Is the M1 tender a long distance one or a short one?