I have to ask Dennis, do you have tooling for the other models. Short ribbed 40' and 50' cars? Thanks for bring these back out! CW Propst

I started assembling a CB&Q single sheathed double steel door box car XM 11? Instructions show door and a half cars and those with steel double doors. The double door cars have raised roofs. My model

Bill, I checked the photos in the instructions and the few I have on my computer and it does appear the silver cars had the flat roofs. Thanks. I'll keep my eyes open at upcoming train shows for a Tic

I'm building a Speedwitch Georgia box car...again. I painted the last one in silver and black (Have a son-in-law that's a Raiders fan ; )which I've sold long ago. I'm thinking of doing this one in bcr

That's alot of brass! Very nice collection. Good to see those cars put to use ; )) Thanks for sharing the link, CW Propst

Thanks Rick, I lent him my book. He's going to do the car as received from PC. CW Propst

Bill just finished a M&StL XM-1 box car with a third brake lever. I'm building a Sunshine RI XM-1 now. Looking at the photo provided there appeared to be extra stuff under the car. So I added the extr

Thanks for the advise guys, much appreciated. When I past the info on to my friend he added he was only interested in the five local roads - CGW, CNW, M&StL, MILW, RI So, guess he's SOL. CW Propst.

A friend bought an undecorated Tangent gondola kit. He would like to paint for something other than what Tangent has done. Anyone know of any? I should say any there was decals available for? CW Props

My apologies for posting during the week. I knew 'sale' posts were to be on the weekend. Unfortunately, the model was finished in then. It's a sad fact that more freight car collections are being liqu

https://www.ebay.com/itm/114087600520?ul_noapp=true Thanks for looking CW Propst

What I remember from having some of these kits is there's a grab iron that's suppose to run across the end of the car, there are holes in the ends that need filling. This is for later versions without

I didn't have to leave town this morning so I finished....Thought I'd finished, just remembered the cut lever...The SP mini-kit, I'll add the uncoupling lever and paint next. I'm also attaching a mode

This mini-kit has the correct superior doors and etched door tracks, decals for an SP car. I could take photo before painting? Will be out of town most of tomorrow, but should have it ready for paint

At CCB (Great event had a wonderful time) I purchased a mini-kit from 'National Scale Car' for a SP box car, series 83420-83739. Kit basics are doors, lower tracks and decals. The only photo of a SP c

I received this link http://nakina.net/cn/cn5.html from Calvin Monaghan off the resin car list. I couldn't find any info pointing to a number series for the Accurail 4400 series cars. Dennis Storzek r

Thanks to all! Yes, Colin is close and Dennis is correct (he should know) The car has 7/8 ends. The article Eric provided the link to was for wood ended cars. There is another article on making CV 1 1

Rob Kirkham wrote: "The Accurail car is excellent for a CNR car." I've got a F&C CN SS car waiting for Black Cat decals. Would the Accurail model be the same car? If not what series would the model be

I a weak moment I picked up an Accurail box car at the mall show yesterday. It's box number is 4498 It's described as a 'Data Only - DK'. I thought it might work for the CL mini-kit, only noticing the

Thanks Eric, Doug and Howard. I forgot to look at Gene Green's CGW color freight car book before writing. There's a great photo of the B end of a 86000 series car with a Superior hand brake. Howard, t