No construction photos … most I can say is I *think* each overlay is a single piece, scored.

Hi Jim, Thanks for the kind words! The interior planking on that car consists of styrene overlays; I *think* each overlay was a single piece of sheet, I want to say .010" thick, scored to represent th

MEK and acetone are chemically very similar (both are ketones), but MEK has a higher boiling point. That gives you more working time: handy in warm weather. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

I'm away from my '43 ORER, but I'm not sure if NYS&W had any 40' boxcars in the forties. They had ex-Erie 36' Fowler boxcars (Westerfield 4300-series kits). I'll look when I get home. Al Brown, Melbou

Left of the door looks to me like "Armour" over "Refrigerator" over "Line". I imagine the logo to the right of the door advertises some product. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

SAL 9006 is class A (SAL 9001-9010), a class I've never seen before. Converted in the mid-30s from a composite gondola (it's kinda dark underneath, but that's a fishbelly underframe). Guess I've got a

Mm, C&N*W* I think. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

Michael, Nice car!! AL B.

Bob is a regular at Cocoa Beach. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

The P&N ends have eight "outie" ribs on each side, where the W&LE ends have six "innies". Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

FWIW, Wine door locks are catalogued on the current Westerfield site. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

Sunshine offered kits of both the N&W BP/BPa (kits 26.16 and 26.17) and the HPT&D/WIF cars (kits 102.10 and 102.12). To re-emphasize, they're different heights both from each other and from the X29. A

According to Boyd and Antz, "L&HR in Color", pp 82-83, the L&HR ran two round-trip freights a day between Port Morris and Maybrook up until the E-L merger. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

According to Gatwood and Buchan, "PRR Flat Cars", pp 23-28, 103-107, that's a PRR class FM flat, built 1902-13 with arch bar trucks. The trucks were rebuilt into 2D-F8 by replacing the side frames. F&

Hi, The underframe is from a Tichy USRA SS boxcar kit; the ends were available from Shapeways a few years ago. Sides and roof were scratch-made. AL B.

Attached is a photo of the finished car. The idea was to more-or-less-replicate the photo of W&LE 27439 in Corns, "Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway", vol 1, p 58: only not quite so beat-up. Body paint is

I like Archers, even for small groups. The trick to getting just a few to stay put, I find, is to cut them from the sheet with a little extra film. I use half-strength Solvaset to set them, and then g

Woops, ARA not AAR.

This is the Southern's version of the mid-1920s AAR double-sheathed design; they had 2,250 of them. Photos appear (inter alia) in Culotta, "Focus on Freight Cars 2", pp 60-61. Sunshine made a kit: nea

Will do!