Thank heaven! I've been resisting the Rail Shop kit for quite a while, now. This, I can handle! Walt Lankenau

Tim, While standing and operating the typical height layout, no, but the center sill, brake rods, tank, and cylinders can be seen when viewed from track level. That's the angle from which we usually p

Richard said, "In my opinion, it is pointless to model underframe details which are invisible when the car is on the track. . . ," NOT "it is pointless to model ANY underframe details." Certainly his

Here are a couple of websites with some really good photos of PRR F22 flatcars. Scroll about half way down this page: http://todengine.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=2937123 for an F22 with arch bar truck

Al, could John be asking about one of your pickle cars? Walt Lankenau I was visiting a layout last week and there was a excellent model of Heinz 204 which he identified as being built from a Westerfie

I don't recall the specifics, but there was an auto or truck assembly plant on the Erie's Newark Branch that shipped crated vehicles loaded into these gons to the Hudson River piers at Weehawken, NJ.

Excellent! We've heard rumblings about an injection molded wagontop on this list for a while, now. Question: the announcement shows two of the earlier paint schemes with a brownish body color, and the

The link doesn't work because the item number was truncated. copy and paste the above item number (140474810416) at the end of the url and it will work. walt lankenau

I feel your pain, John, but I also infer that this was a new medium for you? An hour spent experimenting with the stuff on scrap styrene and a few junk car or locomotive shells would have been a wise

Which announcement was that? Rapido is doing the CN Pte. St. Charles caboose (for Canadian Model Trains, IIRC), which is not steam era, the MLW LRC (which is neither steam nor steam era), and the Pull

Here's a link the the "vintage" page: http://www.con-sys.com/product_vintage1.htm Kits include N&W and VGN battleship gons, a Halliburton drilling mud tank car (steam era???), an NYC containerized exp

On the ex-traction line Claremont & Concord in New Hampshire, in order to deliver a 50-foot car to the Coy Paper Co. in West Claremont, the crew had to remove the knuckles from the locomotive (GE 44-t

I have a hunk o' coke I picked up along the tracks years ago, and it's quite porous and a medium gray color, like charcoal, I'd say. The piece is about four inches by six inches by three inches or so.

Yes, I believe it's the former Yankee Clipper kit.

FYI, the Ann Arbor Railroad Technical & Historical Association 2010 calendar features several items of interest to this list. First, a lettering diagram for a 40-foot gon (the date is not clearly visi

At the bottom of this page: http://www.imrcmodels.com/ho/hoboxcars.htm IM shows assembled Tichy USRA SS boxcars. Walt Lankenau

Didn't have any luck finding this on the Atlas site. A link would be helpful. Thanks! Walt Lankenau

Tim, I can't exactly picture what this "tool" would look like, but I understand your goal. Couldn't something be cobbled up from relatively thick (.060, maybe?) styrene? Walt Lankenau

I can't ever remember hearing of or seeing a D&H offset triple, much less a prototype photo of anything that looked like this. Have you tried emailing Bowser about the cars? Walt Lankenau

USRA S/S, no? With newer trucks and AB brakes. Walt Lankenau