The nice thing about sims is you can fix even the worst dimensional error, push a button and re-render in a few seconds. Andy

And the consumer, always presumed to be rolling in dough, has no choice but to pre-order and buy all he thinks he'll ever need of a product during the week it's available. If he ends up with too much,

The only manufacturer I know of who is asking for advance payment (i.e. "investing") had a product line that is largely stratospheric pastry and I wouldn't buy it anyway. Because manufacturers don't k

I just happen to have one of those... like a lot of Sunshine kits I bought it because I had the opportunity and I just liked the car. But it worked out nicely in this case. I have three other Sunshine

I also found my Intermountain Caswell. I was looking for a kit... that's why I couldn't find it yesterday. I found an RTR car that I had never even taken out of the box. Definitely one of IM's best, o

I dug out of both of my Detail Associates kits... both are #200 composite side. Looks like it's ebay to shop for a steel side. Are the DA cars OOP now? Red Caboose kind of rained on their parade but a

Hmm... file down or just replace with some square styrene? Andy

No locomotive in sight... car just sitting there halfway up the ramp. Probably was a posed shot. Andy

They don't like split links... some sites if you post half the link, you get an error but it leaves the half-link in the url bar so you can paste the rest in. This one you have to open the browser fir

What kind of trucks are those? Outside hung brakes - not familiar to me at all! Andy

Five guys hand shoveling a gondola load... in 1952. Cool. Andy

The Ulrich has the ends and floor as a one piece casting but the sides are separate, which should make it easier to make modifications. IMO the Ulrich's biggest weakness is the thick and flat looking

I just placed my order.... That's probably going to be my next order in a few minutes. Undec kits in stock. The Challenger cars I have are a G50-9 and -12. Andy

I'm reading my email backwards but now I see you beat Tony to the punch plugging his own book. I often don't know what I have and I thought hmm, maybe I already have it. But I guess not - I have Tony'

I thought I had one of these but I can't find it. But undec kits are in stock at IM. I also have some of the USRA composites but they lack the appeal of the others - their profile is too similar to an

That's something I didn't know... did they ever run east of Chicago? And how long did they last? Andy

The GS style gondola is one of my favorite steam era freight cars. No particular logic, I just never met a drop bottom gondola I didn't like and the GS classes are the definitive drop bottom, at least

Cool. Just like being back in grade school. Of course I wasn't in grade school or even born in 1948, but seems like the films we saw in the 60s were all from the 40s :-) Andy

Anybody ever try to build the Red Ball kit of this car? Comes with flat die cast panels you get to form into the wagon top. I bought the kit in 79 I think. I get it out and look at it once in a while,

The biggest problem with most RTR cars is that the trucks don't pivot / pitch / rock properly, could be as simple as the screw being too tight. Also plastic brake rods sometimes blatantly interfere wi