I start with .010 brass with and flatten whatever length I visualize I need to form the handle with Chain Nose Pliers little bit by little bit. Then I use Needle Nose Pliers to further try to flatten

The Boys at the Clearwater Car Shops broke out their Stynylrez Neutral Yellow primer yesterday and here are the results. Many harvested rivets and even more Archer Rivet decals. Ladder have .010 rungs

I am preparing to paint my F&C Rutland Stock Car and I am hoping someone here familiar with that RR's practice can comment on what color was used on their Boxcars and Stock Cars? I am not interested i

I think the key word there Tim is "knowingly." I had no idea you thought so little of me that you think I would do that. Bill Welch

Just the messenger Dennis, just the messenger. Bill Welch

A friend on Facebook found this resource and posted the link for it: http://sld-nmra.ca/freight_car/ref_material/braking_trains.pdf?fbclid=IwAR17qjVSUv_iuhFYt7PPsxfB0s2i-9GHQp-78PG96-tDDnc418RvfpzCIko

I have long found it ironic that the slippery plastic used for CA tips seems to be the only slippery plastic CA will adhere to. Bill Welch

Another source of Dental tools is your Dentist, just ask to see their broken tools the next time you are there. Great price. Bill Welch

Curious if anyone here may have one of the KASLO Shops Canadian National 40-foot Howe trussed SS boxcar kits they would like to sell. Sorry do not know their catalog number if there was more than one

I am pretty sure Plano has a walkway made for the Red Caboose kit. I think mine is stored in the kit box. It will be no small project to use it however as there needs to be a LOT of cutting/whittling

There is also a Freight Car Group focused on building Styrene: https://plasticfreightcarbuiilders.groups.io/g/main/topics Bill Welch

With Branchline's permission I used their rectangular and diagonal paneled roofs to make the MEC and LNE roof patterns for the Speedwitch conversion kits and while the panels of the diagonal paneled r

Ben Hom wrote: "This is why Ted's kit was so valuable as the diagonal panel roofs of the LNE and MEC cars are sized to fit these narrower cars. You can't take a roof from a 40 ft postwar AAR boxcar an

This photo is from a collection of about 120 photos made in the Wash. DC area in the postwar period, and owned by a person in the DC area. In the early 1990's I wrote the late Richard Hendrickson abou

. . . at the Clearwater Car Shops at missive to stimulate your Noodle and provide modeling motivation they hope. The boys told me they have numerous scribbled notes in their Bib Overalls they will be

Sunshine and Life-Like Proto 2000 both did these Mather boxcars. Lots of photos of these around. They were yellow. Bill Welch

I found this by typing "1/16”x 1/16” brass angle stock" on the eBay website. Pretty easy. https://www.ebay.com/itm/12-in-BRASS-ANGLE-1-16x1-16in-1-59x1-59mm-K-S-Engineering-815003-NEW/362961574679?has

Bob, it would be a heck of a lot easier to make suggestions if you told us what the models represent. Bill Welch

Trying to not be defensive but IIRC my paint choice was based on AC&F Builder's info. Black gons in the south: Southern, Virginian, N&W, ACL for sure Elsewhere: Reading, MEC, Wabash, P&WV, off the top

If you're taking a Tichy lettering diagram as gospel, I know a Nigerian prince that needs some help handling cash. Behold these howlers: https://www.tichytraingroup.com/Shop/tabid/91/c/prr/p/10017-prr