In regards to the photo mentioned in David Leider’s pickle book, it is on page 61. It is car 116 and the photo is from 1947. The reporting marks for Squire Dingee are SDX. BTW, decals for Squire Dinge

Steam era freight car discussion group. The time period covered will be from 1900-1960. I think it has been well established that the Fallen Flags website is up and running. That it may have been down

Steam era freight car discussion group. The time period covered will be from 1900-1960. Steve, Try Bowser. They show them in stock. http://www.bowserorders.com/.sc/ms/sch/ee?search=229-6215&go.x=14&go

Andy, Back in the day when Chrysler Corp was the only one using all steel bodies, the GM dealers were supplied with a bunch of thin wall steel tubing. The salesman would give one to the prospect and a

Steam era freight car discussion group. The time period covered will be from 1900-1960. Denny, I have used paint marked or “pens” for doing fussy stripes. Generally I use the side of the tip as that s

A lot of the sellers are not at all knowledgeable about trains. real of model. They get some at a estate sale and think everything is worth a fortune. These are also the ones that call a Mantua 4-6-0

Did you spray on a layer of Dullcote before weathering? Or Microscale decal film? If not, I'd suggest doing that. If you did, I'd have to guess that maybe the overcoat sis not fully cover or that some

Steam era freight car discussion group. The time period covered will be from 1900-1960. 1a Garth,The Testors system works fine IF you need black lettering. Of course if the car you are lettering happe

Steam era freight car discussion group. The time period covered will be from 1900-1960. For a basic illustration of why “rounded” letters are larger than “straight” letters. Consider the word “AUTO” i

Steam era freight car discussion group. The time period covered will be from 1900-1960. From what I have observed in developing acceptable “Fonts” (if it is a letter of a particular appearance, it is

June 2003 Model Railroader. "Painting" with Decals. What the author did was to "paint" a N scale caboose using decals he printed for the entire car. He painted the cab light grey so the decal colors w

Steam era freight car discussion group. The time period covered will be from 1900-1960. Garth, Epson (or HP or Canon or any other inkjet), must have paper designed for inkjet printers. Dye or pigment

“"SC Johnson Pledge Floor Care Multi-Surface Finish 27 OZ" I can only find this product on Amazon. One comment there indicates that it is the same or formerly the "Future" product. Amazon also recomme

Andy was certainly one of the better know personages in model railroading for many years. I’ve known him personally and will miss him. My condolences and prayers to Andy’s family and friends. John Hag

Ed Bommer wrote: Not really. The font catalogs were even bigger in those days than now, it's just that they were all made in metal. This is also an important point. Those railroad draftsmen knew what

As regards decal sets currently in production/stock by the original maker/seller I will only use these sets for making a set in a scale that is not available from said printer/seller. And I will quest

This is all pretty much a moot point as to directly copy Champ's decals would not be a good thing to do. Although I agree that Champs had probably the best there was to be had back in "the day", their

Tony, I'm in agreement with you on this however I should porbably have noted that the vast majority of my work is for rail cars from the 50's and early 60's. This is the era most often modeled by my f

Vector artwork is better than photographs. I have drawn artwork for silk screen printers and, yes, I drawn it at 200% of the finish scale. Then it is photographed and reduce by 50% to make the screens

This is the best way to reproduce prototype lettering, logos, etc. This is the method I, and likely most other artwork people, use in order to get proper fonts, etc. Even though there a railroad fonts