Who makes decals for NATX tank cars that have silver upper bodies and black lower bodies? I have a single and double dome insulated tank cars ready for lettering. Yeah, I should have gotten the decals

I compared the Sunshine kit to the W&R import and noticed that the brake system is radically different. The W&R in each of the three versions imported uses the odd extra brake lever (for a total of th

From that GN classic video, Why Risk Your Life?, these cars had the train line on the outside of the body. What diameter wire should I use for the train line? F&C omitted this detail as did Oriental L

There is a color picture of almost the entire B end of a boxcar in the NP 9480-9999 class at page 52 of Morning Sun Books' Spokane, Portland & Seattle Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment. g

The First Quarter 2005 issue of The Milwaukee Railroader at page 12 has a color picture of this car with 8 hinges on the door and lettering on the right of the door: DOUBLE DECK and under that the usu

I was told that DRGW had the contract to supply the Pacific Fleet with coal up until the fleet's conversion to oil in the 1930s. Has anyone else heard this? If so, I assume that the coal was delivered

The First Quarter 2005 issue of The Milwaukee Railroader at page 12 has a color picture of this car with 8 hinges on the door and lettering on the right of the door: DOUBLE DECK and under that the usu

The picture is undated but in the foreground is a Fairbanks Morse Erie Built in 1948 Hiawatha colors. Richard, as always, is correct that the car is most likely FDEX, though even with a strong magnify

The Spring 2005 Locomotive Quarterly that I received today has a picture of a M&NE 2-6-0 pulling 3 tank cars in 1939 at Rennies, Mich and the tow black Sinclar tank cars each have 2 large white dots o

The May, 2005 Newsletter from W&R announced the following models in HO: 1- NP 4 door OB 40'-6" auto boxcar in 4 versions: 8000-8199 radial roof, older lettering and blackunderframe and trucks (K brake

I have a couple of Overland Models to paint. Does anyone have any suggestions on painting and handling the screens and where to obtain decals? gary laakso vasa0vasa@... EarthLink Revolves Ar

I have some painted models that need decals and I need your assistance on the ones for the models: 1- Northern Pacific clark cars that W&R imported; 2- CB&Q Rodgers Hart hopper that W&R imported; 3- G

There is a picture of the end of this car on page 46 of the N&W Vol1 in Color. It has ends that are like a PRR X29 and four hatches on the roof that appear to open with the hinges on the car sides, no

I received a copy of the new book, Great Northern Empire Builder, today and on page 88 there is a picture of a circa 1964 Empire Builder arriving in Wenatchee, WA. One track over is a Union Pacific 40

I understood that the Milwaukee was one of the first railroads to place roller bearings on its heavy weight passenger cars. Does anyone know if the use of roller bearings included express reefers on t

When W&R imported the 10,000 gallon ACF high walkway tankcar, Micorscale did a set of silver decals for the Barrett car, MC-4213.

P 344 of Vol.II of The Northwest's Own Railway features a picture of a Great Northern 0-6 2-8-2 on the line between Klamath Falls and Bend, Oregon with 4 DRGW 47 gondolas, two of which have side exten

Are there any suggestions for HO scale decals to use on a Union Pacific B 50-17 boxcar and Norther Pacific clark cars? gary laakso vasa0vasa@... EarthLink Revolves Around You.

Microscale's MC-4213 set for the ACF 10K tank car came out at the same time W&R imported its tank cars.

There is a sequence in the Great Northern series (Vol1?) by VideoRails of rail being removed from a gon using a crane with chain and hard to see what was holding the bottom layer of rail.