Folks, I have tried one other idea with these Tichy decals which helps somewhat. While the decals are still on the sheet, I lightly sand the lettering with #400 wet or dry sandpaper (dry!). This reduc

I tried sending a message about sanding Tichy decals the other day, but for some reason or other it never appeared in the thread, so now that other people are talking about sanding decals, I'll try ag

I have successfully used Pine-Sol to remove lettering from Intermountain cars, but only applied to the lettering itself. In fact, I have not found anything else that would cut through this the pad pri

Rob and Co. I'm going to jump into the fray since I recently completed a model of the MKT 79xxx war emergency box car. This project was inspired by a black and white photo of an obviously yellow-paint

Lester and All, As to more details on construction of the sides, I began with .030" plain styrene sheet, scribed with a regular x-acto blade. Parallel lines were achieved using a vernier caliber measu

Scalecoat silver with a bit of gray or white works well for me. OR, if you still have any, the very best is Floquil Platinum Mist. No grain problem with these. Ken Roth

I can wing it, but I'm wondering if anyone knows of drawings for how to run a wrapped steam line under express box cars, specifically an SP 5000-5049 series BX-50-24. I'd settle for drawings for a sim

Yup, Tony. Was trying to go from memory and forgot the 7!! It's tough being old .... thanks for correcting me. We SP nuts don't want do propagate misinformation. BTW the reason I'm particularly intere

Tim and others. I am building my Bx 50-24 from a Sunshine kit and ran into a couple of irregularities in the dimensions which I decided I couldn't live with. I don't have time right at the moment to e

I have a picture of a train on the S.P. Toledo branch in Oregon taken circa 1949. I would like to know the prototype for the unusual double-sheathed boxcar directly behind the engine. It appears to be

Thanks to Ed Hawkins and everyone who chimed in with this interesting puzzle. Just to summarize what has been said: 1. Ed provides an airtight indentification. Bravo! 2. I checked all my SP resources

As to the question of loads in A-50-4 SP automobile cars, I would certainly agree with Ken Adams about the use of these cars in lumber service. I have conductor's wheel reports from 1950 on the Siskiy

Having recently overseen the donation of a large collection of slides and negatives of the Southern Pacific, I can highly recommend the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive in Burien Washington. They cu

I am looking for info on MILW boxcars in the series 6000-6499. Car number 6293 appears in a 1950 wheel report in my possession. 1950 ORER lists these as "all steel" 40' double-door cars, but curiously

Good guess Clark. Actually after posting last night, a friend found a picture of one. It looks like an early attempt at all welded, but vertical welds with no ribs. The rest of the car looks like the

I recently successfuly finished a car with K4 decals (sheet was just purchased 2 months ago). Yes, they do not separate as quickly as other brands, but I found that by using pretty warm water, they do