Can anyone provide a source for ART decals for the postwar era in HO scale? Westerfield has them but apparently only for the 1920s. Any help would be appreciated. Thaks, Tony Wagner

Would anyone out there care to comment on the accuracy of this kit factory decorated as RI 157632? I have a prototype photo of RI 158558 which looks very similar the kit except that its ends are 7-7 c

At Tichy starting next week.Tony Wagner

I was just about to send you this link too. The weathering is fantastic and the techniques are eye openers. I think it's going to take a long time to digest some of this but it is truly great. T

No wonder I had so much trouble with that! The side ladders too. Thanks for the info. Tony Wagner

Seek and ye shall find. I built one of these cars also and found that I had to use styrene fill strips to get the end door casting to fit properly. Another hard part is the steps at the bottom of the

I'm all for separate sides such as on Accurail's cars.As far as I can tell, during the steam era, ends and roofs were one color, usually some shade of "freight car red" while the sides were mostly yel

Can anyone help with the C&O paint schemes for box cars in 1949. The announcement by Intermountain of a 1937 car with Deco ends in two paint schemes made me curious as to when the "progress" scheme be

Ed, I have recently completed construction of two of these cars and I'd be glad to mail a set of instructions to you. Be aware that these are not Funaro's best kits and some scratch building of parts

Best news I've heard in a long time! Tony Wagner

On the Canada Southern website there is a complete roster of NYC freight cars These cars were in lot 719-G built in 1942. On that site there is a photo of one of this lot as a composite car but they d

You guys might also consider that because of their size many ships propellers were actually fabricated from separate pieces, hubs and blades. I'm no expert on this but over the years I've seen referen

I'm going to stick my 2 cents in and observe that the paint used in the steam era didn't hold up for decades the way it seems to nowadays and I'd guess that cars still deemed essential by their owners

NYC open top cars were painted black prior to the end of 1943. Thereafter they were painted red, without a black background for the oval logo. However black paint could still be used after that date u

I actually use roof brown (it dries pretty dark) and on truck side frames sometimes highlights of either grimy black or freight car color, but very lightly. You are correct that not all dirt is of equ

I got into a discussion with another modeler about underframe colors and we consulted his collection of books that featured color photos from the steam era. As others have noted, unless a car was new

This is truly amazing! Even if I had the skill (which I don't), I doubt if I would have the patience to spend years on a single model that such fine work undoubtedly requires. Tony Wagner ____________

I thank all of the members of this list who answered my question. From the information received I now know that the paint scheme on the model (sans serif) represents a re-paint done sometime before mi

I am completing an HO model of one of UP's B-50-19s built in 1936, or at least that is what the car's factory lettering shows. In addition to the other minor work already completed, I am going to repl

I should have been clearer. What I meant by 're-painting' was not painting the whole car but, in addition to the required periodic reweighing and re-stenciling which was done routinely on every railro