I bend most of the grab irons I use building resin or plastic kits. I have written a brief history and described my methods for bending three custom grab iron types: straight, roof right-angle (corner

Date help. Need to know date when the Standard Coupler Device ( uncoupling lever), an improved type of coupler operating rod for use with either the conventional Type ”E” or the “F” coupler on Freight

I hit send before adding a photo of the Standard Coupler Device. So here it is. Lester Breuer

I bend all uncoupling levers I use building resin or plastic kits. I have provided photos of several types from the Car Builders’ Cyclopedia, dimensions, and described my method for bending custom rod

Time to reduce the plastic inventory. I chose URTX 7567, a 5th Avenue Car Shops/Accurail, wood refrigerator to upgrade to start. Upgrade includes milling running board, installing wire grabs and ladde

Jon a large fleet with the .110 wheels and a large inventory of the .110 to use. Would be costly to change. Currently, using the .088 on tank cars where quite visible. Lester Breuer

Bob when looking at the car at the top of the ladder, the way the tarp is attached leaves the area above open for roof access when coming up the ladder and leaves the area open for light to enter or b

I have been building and upgrading several 5th Avenue Car Shops kits. I can not remember the names of the two gentleman who owned 5th Avenue Car Shops? Can some one help? Thanks in advance. Lester Bre

One less wood refrigerator in inventory. I chose M&STL leased URTX 4685 wood refrigerator, a 5th Avenue Car Shops/Accurail kit to assemble and upgrade. Upgrade includes milling running board, installi

Fenton Thank You. It actually was weathered lightly with Pan Pastel black on the roof and a light brown eye shadow makeup on the sides; however, the lighting for the photo makes it appear as no weathe

Fine build. Scratchbuilt sides very Impressive. Can you provided additional information on how you built the sides. Lester Breuer

I keep building to reduce the inventory so another blog post. I chose BREX 76252 steel refrigerator, a 5th Avenue Car Shops/Accurail kit to assemble and upgrade. Upgrade includes Kadee running board,

Thanks for sharing. A chance to see the models as I could not attend. Lester Breuer

Kristin I wish I did; however, I do not have the last car or pictures. I build it for a friend who has it freight car collection. The only car I currently have on the railroad is a wood Ambroid kit wi

As I was working on a resin Speedwitch Media Northern Pacific Flat Car kit I reached in the drawer for a broach to remove the flash from the stake pockets. If you on not familiar with a broach and are

Denny I do not know if Floquil glaze will reconstitute Floquil paints. I added it to existing colors or sprayed it over Floquil colors to get a gloss base for decal application. To reconstitute old Fl

One less resin kit in the to build cabinet so another blog post. I chose Speedwitch Media, resin kit K119, Northern Pacific 64109 , a 52’ straight sill steel wood deck flat car to build. Additional ph

I remember a model of a Rock Island war time hopper that was built using information from a Martin Lofton article in Mainline Modeler. Can someone with the month and year this article appeared ? Thank

At a Friends Of The Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern get-together this Car came up in a freight car discussion. Has anyone built one or have information regarding the car? File:The Stillwell Oyster

I use dental tools or “picks” to help build every freight car I do. And, a dental pick can be made into a removable load tool you see in the attached photo. The photos and writeup of various types and