Tim, that's a Kadee plastic 2-56 screw sold as a separate product #256 but included in some of our coupler packages like the 20 and 30 series couplers. Andy Miller, I believe you are talking about our

Tim, Certain stripes are easier to do than others and I'll leave it that. One of the issues with the MON (CIL) stripe is the ladder which is also painted white at the top and our ladders are made of a

Thanks Bill, Since we do not yet have a printed MON car to photograph for our web site we hurried and did a rough graphic image. The lettering will be black on a white stripe. Sam Clarke Kadee Quality

Hello Group, I thought I'd chip in a few comments. We have quite a number of photos of the Birmingham Southern 40 foot PS-1s. They came from the factory with both 6 foot 7 panel Superior and 6 foot Pu

Phil, Actually, we will be doing most of these PS-2 paint schemes and we'll eventually get to this black CGW paint scheme, perhaps the first part of next year. We really do not like to commit to any r

Hello Phil Buckwald, I was waiting for Gene Green to answer this but since we are working on a continuing line of PS-2s we have a bit of info to pass along, some of it from Gene. The CGW PS-2s you are

Hello Mark, Glad to be of help. We have a nice close up slide of car #27471 from Michael Bradley that shows the left side gusset. The gussets look similar to some that are used on the later 50 foot PS

In addition to Eds' information the following is from one of our diagram books. The page for this car has been copied a zillion times so some of the road numbers are hard to read. Also note the reinfo

Hello Garth, The 50 foot PS-1 with 8 foot door opening is, more or less, still on our "possible" future project list, which changes all the time. Doing this car would require a new body and underframe

Thanks, Tim O'Connor, Unfortunately, due to a continuing changing web site we no longer have as much information about the PS-1 box cars posted as we use to. There are a number of features besides the

Hello Mr. McCoy, Contact me off list at mail@... about selling you our PS-1 underframes. There are a number of parts that we sell by request that are not regularly listed part numbers. Many of o

Hello again everyone, We appreciate your requests for bulk packages of #78 couplers and we'll seriously consider it. Thanks to those who commented about our #205 coupler height gauge. It does in fact

Pat, All of the black packaged #58 couplers are the newer no gap version. Bulk packaging the #78 coupler may require more requests from the modelers, the more demands we receive the closer we look at

Hello Pat Wider, and others, I've been follow this thread, quite an interesting discussion. To clarify a couple of items: First, the color of the #58 coupler packaging was changed from pinkish red to

Hello again, You are pretty safe using the standard PS-1 underframe brake details. There were a few variations here and there, mounting brackets, pipe bending, and such but these are not noticeable. I

Hello Mr. McCoy, From the few photos we have on this MILW series of PS-1s here is a little more information. MILW series 29000-29499 is a 500 car order from PS lot 8449. The cars from 29000 to 29399 c

My apologies to Mr. Buchwald and Ed Hawkins, Ed is correct. After I enlarged the photo and compared it to similar angled photos of UP cars it appears that it is a 50 foot PS-1 with "twin alternating r

Hello Mr. Buchwald, The PS-1 box car in your photo is a 40 foot car from UP series 100000-101599, PS lot 5908, 1600 cars built in 1948 without the rectangles at the peak next to the hand wheel common

Hello Mark Heiden, All of the photos that we have of this series of PS-1s have the Morton running board, which has the round holes. The brake step is a Morton with round holes. Also note that there ar

Hello Todd and Ed, It certainly is an issue with tooling cost being justified by potential sales and the actual production quantity of cars. In this case I don't believe we'd be interested, not only b