Did some/all box cars with Duryea cushion underframes have slightly longer running boards? Photos of B&O M-59s make me wonder. (I've seen pictures from after 1960 of cars with the more advanced cushio

You have to forgive Richard because he doesn't look at freight cars over 53'6" long, unless they're mill gons. Therefore the existance of Athearn's 62' tank car is a new one on him! Scott Pitzer (Of c

A 1952 built date would pretty much eliminate the chances of having a rectangular panel roof, or 4/4 ends. Scott Pitzer

wrote: Which reminds me-- doesn't Stewart's kit have some of the few steam-era 70-ton trucks around? But they're not available separately, as far as I know. I'm looking at my Bowser Pere Marquette cov

This is why some guys model nothing in particular and name the railroad after their grandkids. Very rarely do they have problems from the grandkids' attorneys. Scott Pitzer

I have so many old freight car parts that just don't cut it anymore-- doors, ends, roofs-- that I was going to rig up a bunch of exploding boxcars and sell them. But my excess decal inventory is mostl

FWIW I recall an ad-- from Long's Drug Store Moreno Valley I believe-- that mentioned a kit with the big circle scheme which was numbered according to a prototype photo of an unmodified car. Scott Pit

Con-Cor did some structure kits for "Cambria City" including an electrical substation. Can anyone give an opinion on the practicality of the included transformers as flatcar loads? Scott Pitzer

I heard that when Pan Am went out of business a few years ago, they auctioned off everything including rights to the name. Some party bought it, not knowing for sure what it might be used for-- perhap

Don't get exited; there's not much there for us. It's a silent comedy featuring the character "Hairbreadth Harry" (Earl McCarthy I believe) and has a train/car chase filmed on the UP around L.A. and t

I decided to get back to my Sunshine kit and FINISH it! but right away I ran into two questions: Step 6 of Added Modeling Notes says to add the short angle plates on top of the coupler boxes, flush ag

Which Sunshine flat car kit is it? Scott Pitzer

The other day I was looking over Ed Hawkins' August 1999 RMC article and table on Branchline-style 50' DD box cars. The only L&N cars mentioned are 99500-99549 built in 1946 with 4/4 improved dreadnau

Could this Tidewater conversion connect somehow with the Champ Decal set for a TYDOL VEEDOL tank which has a dome in the center and one near the end? Sounds more like a conversion than a case of build

I'd like to see a good end view of the production version of the PRR war-emergency 52'6" gon. Unfortunately the work I've done using Ulrich sides, P2K ends, and miscellaneous other parts has been base

I'm SO glad I bought one at half-price a few years ago! I figured on building three Santa Fe reefers and then selling the book. (So far I've built one.) It's one of only two good "investments" I've ma

Thanks Ted. That scan tells me the ends I made won't quite cut it. I made them from whichever P2K ends were left over from the PM car I did... I don't remember just how I did them now. Does this PRR e

Look again-- it's Blank-DP-RP-RP-DP-DP-DP-DP-DP-DP-DP-RP-RP-DP-Blank. I saw a car like this (from a distance) in ATSF MofW service several years ago, after I had found two SP cars with this pattern, o

It seems to me that most 50' single door box cars that have a 6+6 riveted side panel arrangement are stretched 40' cars. Among the exceptions are the CB&Q, SP, GTW, NYC, etc. cars as modeled by Proto

But Tim, I don't really want to revert to cast-on ladders unless I have to. The GBW car rings a bell but I don't know where I might have seen it now. The Front Range car that had 6-and-a-third panels