Thank you Richard! I'm going to go put the car together now... Clark Propst

I opened the Red Caboose L&N box car kit box and out fell the sprue with two kinds of doors.. I forgot about having choices! I've seen too many guys use the ol' coin toss and be wrong. Would someone b

Thanks a lot Ed, I'm ready to add the doors and weather. I looked at the PDF at that site, link below, I didn't see the trucks or doors listed. Hence my questions. Is this link to the wrong list? Clar

My Red Caboose box car is finished and on the layout. Thanks Ed and Richard, without your help it'd only have been stripped and repainted by now : ) Clark Propst

I have a photo of the black 1958 car with logo CSX 104 with a reweigh of BHM 1-55 I also have CSX 153 and SHSX 110 with appear to be PS2 two bay covered hoppers in a much newer paint scheme. Clark Pro

My Red Caboose L&N box car is quickly becoming a poster child for "Only model from photos" After I collected (what I thought) was all the info I needed I built the kit. I then posted a photo on a Yaho

Tim, I did a piece on modeling these cars for the CNWHS Emag. Check it out from their website. Clark Propst

Steve I just painted two IM reefers I redid with Stan's parts (doors, ends, roof) and one of his TRAX reefer kits. After looking at the photos of several cars with new paint in Gene's reefer book. I m

Sorry, I switched the mix around. Should be 2-3 parts yellow to 1 part orange.

Odd balls has a set that'll do either the TRAX or PCX cars. But, like most of his sets there are bits missing and he wasn't able to get a good maroon for the large Armour letters. I would suggest buyi

You might see if Oddballs has something that might work? His decals are on sale for 50% off right now. Clark propst

No, for CGW. Clark Propst

It's been mentioned that the Accurail gon list is not a witch hunt, but to get an understanding for which are correct or acceptable lettering schemes. Don't we miss Richard's and Ed's articles in the

A lot depends on what we've using our cars for. I'm not 'contest quality' modeler, 'layout quality' at best. My cars are made to operate on my layout. If I had several members of this group in my ops

Reading about the Tichy tank car again gave me an idea. I have lists of tank cars that we at the packing plant I model and have no idea what they looked like. I might pick up a couple of the Tichy mod

I remember a layout at a train show many, many years ago that was nothing more than plywood topped tables, painted green, and a couple loops of track. They would run a specific train from a train list

I had a couple UP crewman stop over the other day and they said the same thing. Heck, when I was railfanning I noticed the difference between trains round here and the ones running up and down along t

Really liked that feed mill ! Clark Propst

A railroader friend told me this story. Two cars of beet pulp were brought in to the yard on a WB frieght. One was billed to a feed mill west of town and the other to a feed mill in a town east. The c

Thanks for posting the train lists: ) Always interesting. Clark Propst