I’ve owned several sets of digital and dial calipers over the years. Mitutoyo seems to be my favorite but Swiss made Brown & Shape dial calipers are good also. The digital advantage is the ability to

A reverse helix cutter will push the material down instead of trying to lift it. I think Harvey Tool Company has these. They sell very small tools. I’ve used a .004 diameter cutter from them in the pa

Former vent boxcar in M of W service. Todd Horton

Wow. I looked at your Facebook page, that is very impressive work you’ve done building those cars from metal. Todd Horton

What's happening to it? Todd Horton

"C of G boxcars what came" I should have checked what I typed "C of G boxcars that came" should be more like it Todd Horton

Clark, the Champ decals leave a lot of be desired. The artwork isn't correct other than the spelling. Microscale has an excellent set for C of G boxcars what came from artwork provided by the CGRHS. T

Brian, Can you post a picture of what broke? Todd Horton

I model 1957, I couldn't remember what car design the ERTL model was of. Todd Horton

What railroads owned cars for this model?

Looks like it was being used as a spacer car. Todd Horton

Ahhhh, sharp eye you have there !!!! Todd Horton

End door? Am I missing something? Todd Horton

They have a 50/50 chance but they get it wrong 99% of the time

There’s a few published photos of C of Ga hoppers in Canada. Did it happen often? Probably not but it did happen

Bill, I think the shadow Keystone scheme was started in 1954 Todd Horton

The Central of Georgia shipped a lot of this product. They used both boxcars and covered hoppered for this traffic Todd Horton

There's no visible over spray on the black paint for the ends. They went to a lot of work to make sure this didn't happen From previous discussions on this, was this the exception or the example ? Tod

The C of G had 20 of these cars for transformer service. There are no correct decals available Todd Horton

Thanks John, I did see the later post about the PRR / Monon location. The CG vent car is lettered with the post 12-1944 reporting marks so the photo is from at least that date. The Central used this s