I, too, have a hankering to remove these floors. I was thinking of drilling a couple of holes up from the bottom (maybe through the holes for the truck screws) and then pushing the floor up from below

Back in the olden days, I ended up using leftover Floquil paints as sanding sealer. It was, in a sense, free. I didn't thin it; I just brushed it on and sanded it off. With sandpaper. Actually, silico

I should also mention that I used Floquil paint over my Floquil "sanding sealer"--thus no compatibility issues. Ed Edward Sutorik

Richard, Thanks for posting that "history of street marking" piece. Very handy! Ed Edward Sutorik

Kadee has announced on their site a new SAL paint scheme for their 40' box. I'm not too familiar with Seaboard, and I can't make the photo out. Can anyone point out a better photo of the scheme and/or

At the Amherst show, Exactrail is showing a long ribbed 40' Milwaukee box. I do wonder how it will compare to Rib Side Car's various products. Ed Edward Sutorik

Kadee (and now IM), on occasion, paints their PS2 covered hoppers in schemes that are far away from my modeling geographical area of interest but yet charm me with their paint and graphics. While I th

From page 248 0f Strack and Ehernberger's most excellent book "Cabooses of the Union Pacific Railroad": "In June 1947, instructions were issued to change UP's cabooses from freight car red....to yello

A typical boxcar for grain was 40-6 inside length, 9 inside width, and 10-6 inside height. This yields 3827 cubic feet. This converts to 3076 bushels with the car filled. Weight would be about 92,000

Yes. I screwed up somewhere. I should have multiplied the bushel capacity (3076) by the weight of a bushel of wheat (60lbs). This produces 184,560 lbs. I don't know where 92,000 lbs. came from, though

Jerry, They show up in my January 1965 ORER with 50 in each group. Then it's 26,44 in April of 1968, and 2,16 in April of 1970. Ed Edward Sutorik

For MP, there were an additional 2 on the next line down with a higher load capacity--24+2=26. Ed Edward Sutorik

Thanks, all, for the information. Most definitely. Ed Edward Sutorik

I believe it's practically impossible on an injection molded single sheathed boxcar to reproduce the undercut to model the Z-bars that were commonly used. But I'm wondering if this is also the case fo

Thanks Randy and Al; that's very nice to hear. Ed Edward Sutorik

--- In STMFC@..., "brianleppert@..." <brianleppert@...> wrote: Cliff Grandt liked brass. I recall the Grandt clan using aluminum, though it's been many years since I toured their shop. Ed

I know that the current conversation is about the BLI NYC boxcar--the one I was thinking it was about time to order. Well, maybe not. Anyway, Atlas has announced another run of their USRA rebuilds. I

While the first batch of these Atlas cars were 10 panel, the current run appears to be 8 panel. Ed Edward Sutorik

Why, yes I can (we're talking HO here): Atlas announced on August 5, 2009 the production of part numbers 6400-1 through 6400-4 (undec) and 6401-x through 6406-x (various railroads--all foobies, I beli

Only if the spider can read the sign next to the model. Ed Edward Sutorik