I agree it's likely a RIP track, but those "tags" are not the reason, as they look like paper that can be found on just about any steam era freight car to indicate lading, destination, etc. You can se

Re: [STMFC] Re: Paint Booth My paint booth is similar to yours and is also by Artograph and is 15 years old. A year or so back, I had a local sheet metal shop use the cardboard top (which was getting

Re: [STMFC] Cocoa Beach Prototype Rails 2018 is Loaded w/Freight Car Content Bill, It is my understanding that Fenton Wells will be doing a clinic on kitbashing the Accurail 36' double sheathed car wi

Re: [STMFC] For PRR X29 boxcar fans Claus, I'm guessing this is long, but for some reason I missed your post until now. If you still have the info, I'd love to have it. If not, oh well. Thanks, Dave T

Cartograf is excellent but pricey due to minimum order size. Their yellows cannot be beat for quality though. Sent from Dave Bott' iPhone

Don told me at Timonium that it is an Epson printer marketed to sign makers with the one pass print head modified for decals. Not sure what modification was made. It could be the resolution is fine bu

In the heart of the Depression, 1934, appear a number of Canadian single sheath 40’ boxcars, all hauling crackers to Winston-Salem in train 73 on different days across the Piedmont plain of North Caro

Bruce Smith wrote: We're not only talking quality here, but representative cars. Unless you are a western US modeler, that's not a choice I would make. Tony Thompson responded: But if we avoid any reg

John, I will agree to some of your stipulations, except that it had almost nothing to do with Santa Fe. It was the Southern Railway in North Carolina. I chose 1934 partly because of the data available

It's my railroad, and I chose that to be the Atlantic & Yadkin in 1934. I don't have a wheel report for the A&Y so I got the next best thing--nearly a year of wheel reports from my shortline's owning

I have been applying the Pan Pastels primarily with a paintbrush, one dedicated to the Pan Pastels because they are different in consistency and application style than chalks (pastel chalk scraped wit

Any product that needed ventilation. Control of ripening happened BECAUSE of exposure to outside air...reduced the concentration of ethylene which is given off by some fruit and that hastens ripening

It's not necessarily heat, but ethylene gas that can emanate from ripening fruits and melons. Some fruits release it, others are sensitive to it. See a list at: http://www.thekitchn.com/food-science-e

I’d be concerned about squeezing the journal boxes “hard.” The frames are flexible and you are doing more than just reaming out molding imperfections. I do not think that even doing so you would end u

Thanks John, great, helpful information! Sent from Dave Bott' iPhone

I believe there are Santa Fe historians and fans here. Could you please help me further identify the following freight cars from a 1934 wheel report? Photos of said cars as near to ’34 as possible (or

I have a set of IMWX kits representing the 1937 AAR box car for the Southern Railway. These were early kits and had a nicely representative, but severely oversized grab iron. It has the staggered hole

In addition to when and what, where can be important! I model Southern's Winston-Salem division in and around Greensboro where SOU, N&W, and C&O vents were relatively plentiful in 1934; at least accor

I'm trying to plan this with a Southern vent that matches. A resin door can be cast as an add-on. The end vent either requires a cut and insert or a cast replacement. The cost in $ and time of a coupl

Still, it has a droopy coupler. They should check to make sure its shimmed properly or the air hose might catch on a switch. ;-) Dave