Tony (and all), Yesterday you said "you can do the same thing for your layout ... I'm going to present what my thinking process was for my SP 1953 layout" (sic - but essentially what you said ... ???)

Hi, This provides an interesting possibility for a layout facility - where you don't have enough room on the layout where the spur/siding is ... but there is room on the other side of the main. So jus

Bill and all, I also think there were cars that had 'just the keystone' (i.e. without the circle or the shadow) but I don't have a clue as to when those were being done. Thanks for the date range for

Hi, Tony's clinic is available online from MRH, back issues April 2013 and March 2015. The text of those articles is essentially the same as what Tony presented at BAPM here in the SF Bay Area yesterd

Hi all - and especially Tony, I attended Tony's clinic on 'Signature Freight Cars' at the Bay Area Prototype Modeler's meet in Richmond, Ca. I have a couple of questions I'd like to toss out to the gr

Hi, I'm not a Pennsy modeler. Would someone please provide the years for the introduction of the various forms of the keystone logo - I think there are only(?) 3 ... keystone, circle keystone, and sha

Tony, If you mean "the reefer goes to the grocery warehouse" and "the tank cars go to the oil dealer" and .... etc. Then I agree with you. But the same car, including the same number ... day after day

Armand, First select the cars that will service your -on layout- industries. Usually that will be about twice as many cars as you have car spots (for empties in/loads out or vice versa). Second select

Hi, My favorite "rattle can" flat finish is acrylic craft flat finish paint - thinned out to about 50-50 and applied as a wash with a brush. I use both the semi-gloss and flat (and own but have never

Ted (and all), I suggest the following response to what I see as a "hue and cry from your loyal followers". Why not make the collection of articles available on your web site - as is/as they were writ

Hi, The caption on the picture says that the train has just exited a tunnel ... perhaps the stuff we are seeing and calling moisture is simply smoke/soot that has collected but not blown off to a more

Craig/all, So it would seem fairly likely that small or even normal capacity bottling plants would have stored their CO-2 in a tank somewhere inside ... ??? Or even that those 200 gal. supply tanks we

Hi - thought I'd chime in ... I have been using solvent based paints since the mid-80's. I still have a small supply of both Diosol and Scalecoat thinner and use them for air brushing ... but use lacq

Thanks all, I'm netting out the answers as "any product that needed to be kept cool" - as in you didn't want it to be inside a normal box car where the sun could heat up the car. So "cool" was a relat

Hi, What was shipped in "Ventilated Box Cars" - the ones with open/slotted doors and ventilators on the ends of the cars? Most of the pics of them I've seen have been pre-WWII ... when did they stop b

Guys, Watch this space in about 2 to 3 weeks time. I'm working with a supplier to get some wood strips in 1"x6"x16 foot lengths that I intend to work thru how to 'pre-color' them before assembly and i

Bruce and Schuyler (and any one else that wants to join in), I also have been studying the roof walks in that photo. The first thing that jumps out at me is that almost every single car has "variation

Resending - forgot to strip off the "notify ..." junk

Hi, So I'm sitting here staring - again - at the following image ... https://donstrack.smugmug.com/UtahRails/Roger-Kingsford-Photos/i-k8WX95c and (this time) I was focusing (again) on weathering on th

Hi, I started to count RR personnel and quickly got up to 20 ... before I got into trying to separate the RR people from the crush of war time passengers. Caption says "5 minutes" for this stop. I sus