Wasn’t there a transition period? Nelson Moyer

Friends, More to the point, this is a FREIGHT CAR group, not a locomotive group. I'm surprised our fearless lawman leader hasn't shut hasn't been jangling his keys.

Calling the BLI hermaphrodite a proper NW2 is not to be done in polite company. I am sure the Walthers model will be a great improvement. And hopefully the beginning of a line of several phases of

Garth Groff writes: “More to the point, this is a FREIGHT CAR group, not a locomotive group. I'm surprised our fearless lawman leader hasn't shut hasn't been jangling his keys.” Actually, my

Great work, Chuck! Elden Gatwood

Chuck fine Models. Thank You for sharing and Jim Thank You for your FCC help. Appreciated. Lester Breuer

This model violates the cosmic order of things. https://www.ebay.com/itm/TRIX-24902-SANTA-FE-40-THE-GRAND-CANYON-LINE-BOXCAR/362606744899 Ben Hom

I am well along on building a Westy kit of the above for the TH&B. I have good photos to guide me and from one I can tell these cars had an Ajax Brake Gear and Wheel but cannot tell if the brake step

I'm building a Sunshine kit#55, SAL round roof auto car. I am wondering if the cars used a slack adjuster. And also, what was the height to the running boards. I'm using Accurail trucks with .88

Aaron, Seaboard’s turtle-back roof auto cars measured 14’-6 1/2” from rail to top of the Apex (11000-11999) or Blaw-Knox (22000-22199) running boards, and they were not equipped with brake

Thank you Ed. This puts me back on course. I have the RP Cyc article in front of me, and the Sunshine instructions. The instructions only show the reservoir, brake cylinder, and dirt collector in

Aaron, All I have to go by are original paint specs. The AF-1 cars 11000-11699 eceived metallic brown for the entire car including doors, underframe & trucks. Stencils were white as these cars

Lester, If you are an oil based non-acrylic type paint modeler like me there are some more recent post Floquil era offerings. Mr. Hobby~Mr. Color #7 Brown. Great for the transition era molder post

I know much has been written about this so-called USRA tank car, but I have a question. What was the gallonage of said USRA design? The reason I ask is I am decaling said Tichy tank car to represent

I have found that the various wheel bases of tank cars make a huge difference in lettering cars. I remember once thinking that UTLX and ACF tank bodies were so close, they could be a start of

ACF's tanks before the Type 27 tended to be shorter lengthwise for their nominal gallonage?? (and therefore larger in diameter) than most of the other tank car builders. What you want for that

Ben: Please say more so I can understand your point... David Soderblom Baltimore MD USA drs@...

Dave Soderblom wrote: "Please say more so I can understand your point..." Trix invested a lot of money to badly tool (the roofs in particular are really bad representations of the rectangular panel

Admittedly, I am diving into this project a bit late; but have acquired all the parts I need, save for one. I am building the N Scale version, and am at a loss for what to do about the turnbuckles.

I put your question up on the TH&B Modeller's group over at Yahoo groups. I'll post a reply if anything comes in. Colin Meikle