Gene, Yes, this appears to be an F22 or F23. It has been discussed several times, and is the subject of an unproven legend that it was "stolen" from the PRR. See message 27798 for the story. Regards B

OSB? Oriented strand board? <VBG> If you mean "outside braced" , many of us prefer the more accurate term "single sheathed" (there, I beat Ben!). As for rivets, a common source is to shave them off of

Fertilizer! Agriculture is a huge user of Nitrogen and ammonia is a major source. Regards Bruce Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Precision offers both HO and HON3 kits. The HO kits still needs some work. There are two kits, one with plastic details and one with brass detials. I suggest the slightly more expensive brass details

Let me beat Ben to the punch <G> - no dashes in PRR classes (eg. X29) As noted, the Accurail box will work. You can also use the Kadee #78 if you remove the Red Caboose box. Finally, if you wish to le

Armand, Almost impossible, as has been noted here before. Manufacturers generally do NOT use hobbiest paints and in many cases use special mixes made up for a specific project. Therefore, there ain't

Arnold, No, scale width refers to the side to side measurement. The "standard" HO scale draft gear box in the US is wider than the prototype, which leads to lots of problems including center sills tha

Arnold, In general, Union Tank Car (UTLX) built many of its own tank cars, the X-3. These are available in resin from Sunshine Models in 6,000 gal, two different 8,000 gal, and a 10,000 gal as well as

Roger, I don't know the specific series, but General American also built their own tank cars. It is most likely that the cars in the series you cite were these, and they are distinctively different fr

Arnold, For the P2K kit, try eBay. I think that there are several ongoing auctions right now. BTW, I try not to pay more than $8.00 per car <G>. As for the X-3 models, I hear that they are one of the

paint store and buying some?Armand Premo What store? This ain't Sherwin Williams! By commercial Jerry meant that the paint is ONLY available to other businesses, not private individuals... unless you

Armand, Of course you can, but I remind you that THAT was not what you were advocating. You were suggesting the the paint used on mass produced models could be bought at a "paint store"... and the bot

Yes <G> - Yellow doors are double deck cars. AFAIK the Intermountain models do not accurately model these cars but I'll let the ATSF modelers comment in more detail. Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Aubur

Peter, I have used the tichy rivets and I think they work well, Yes, they are basically rivets on a pin. One challenge is to get the hole big enough for the pin yet smaller than the head, and another

On Wed, November 9, 2005 5:59 am, Kevin Lafferty replied: Tom, Kevin, This car is identifiable as a General American built car. The spotting feature is the lack of side and end sills and the distincti

<snip> Jared, The oil shortage was so critical at that point that there is no way that a tank car would be in assigned service unless it was for a very special cargo. Those cars noted in 1958 would mo

Jared, Again, I think you are not taking into account the level of disruption caused by WWII. Since I am not familair with the Alma Branch, I do not know what sort of national defense related sites we

Bill, PRECISELY! The AC&F USG-A war emergency tank cars were also built by CC&F. See the article on this bash by Russ Pinchbeck "Canadian Car & Foundry's "War Emergency" 10,000 gallon tank car" Railro

YES! (I think we've said this already in the Alma Branch thread last week) Regards Bruce Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Tony, I'm curious - what source(s) are you basing your comments on? The few references I have been able to find in the last 24 hours seem to support the contention that the revolutionary idea in truc-