From Ted Cullota's series of books, "Focus on the Freight Car vol ten other freight car types" has some great photos of various tank cars pictured from the 1930s. One of particular interest to me is t

I found a method of glueing 0.005" styrene to a base styrene years ago which has stood the test of time. In pattern making, weakly attached laminations can often delaminate when pulling an RTV mold fr

2 Pullman standard doors in HO and one prototype photo. Kadee door from about 10 years ago Prototype PS-1 door Kurtz Kraft door (early 60s) -Andy Carlson Ojai CA On Friday, February 5, 2021, 10:57:11

Bill- The time in the bar was explaining how to convert a Tahoe Model Works Dalmann 2-level with lateral motion device into an Andrews variation. Razor saw cuts, styrene strips, some NBW castings, som

Transferring to a narrow gauge flat car under wire--has to be an LARy (Los Angeles Railway-3'6" gauge) destined transformer..... On Friday, January 15, 2021, 10:03:34 AM PST, Bob Chaparro via groups.i

Tim, This was not my picture--I simply copied and cropped it from the earlier post, focusing more on the narrow gauge gondola(s). On Sunday, January 3, 2021, 7:51:48 AM PST, Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@

For someone wishing to duplicate some elements of this scene in N scale, look at this one-piece narrow gauge high side gondola. My late friend made the pattern and I cast it it in resin. -Andy Carlson

The IMWX/Red Caboose '37 AAR kits came with both Superior and Youngstown doors. You do not need to look too closely to see that these YSDs do not match very well. Apparently the CNC machine's cutting

Good morning, everybody! 70-ton trucks. The EJ&E had some ASF A3 70-ton trucks with outside clast brakes on some cars. A survivor is at the Fillmore & Western RR in Ventura County, just a 100 miles or

Less than 10 years ago, the city of Fort Bragg California (Home to the "Skunk" California Western RR) replaced their last community redwood water pipes. These were rifle drilled logs with an iron wire

I have a memory which is a bit different than yours. Some importer had a batch of passenger cars made and the builder built the industry labeled"over runs" which were extra cars beyond the ordered num

My thoughts exactly! -Andy On Wednesday, December 9, 2020, 10:15:04 AM PST, jerryglow2 <jerryglow@...> wrote: Don't those laser cut interiors add to the side's thickness? This seems it would d

I have my list of the 4 best items to have blessed model freight car building as follows, in no particular order: 1) Evergreen styrene strips 2) Dial calipers 3) Resins, such as polyurethane 4) RPM me

I am guilty of not checking my emails before sending. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

There has been some disscusion on weathering wood on single sheathed box cars and I felt that quite a few folks were not too knowing of the effect of wood to the weathering differences. This is what i

My interest in lumber has led me to examine photos of single sheathed freight cars in a critical way. Unlike double sheathed cars, single sheathed cars usually did not have tongue & Groove edges while

Natural gasoline and natural gas (Methane, Propane & Butane aka LPG) are not the same. LPG is liquid only when under high pressure. Natural gasoline, which mention started earlier in this thread, also

This car has been sold. Thanks for all who responded. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

Out west we had a large regional gasoline retail brand called Signal Oil Co. which started out by buying and reselling Well Head Gas which was the liquid found around the well (as Tim mentions) which

Offered, one only- I have a set of castings to do a WP Pullman built 1916 40' SS box car in HO resin. Buyer will get the complete set of castings, which includes the under frame with separate cross-ti