Group, I was sure hoping for a little more excitement that IM was going to produce type 3 hatches/latching mechanism cars since this opens up a whole lot more road names on these outstanding models. M

Group, In the latest new product release, Intermountain is showing 1958 cuft covered hoppers with the Murphy standing seam roof and type 3 hatches and locking bars for several railroads. All that is s

Group, The True Line Trains website does not appear to have been updated in the recent past and I missed out on the Klasing 626 handbrake when it came out. Would anybody have 2 or 3 of them they would

Group, Amazingly a picture of these cars in the later LOFX scheme has come to light in the reprints of the Rock Island Rocket magazines from the 1960s. This small photo was printed in the May-June 196

Steve, I can try to describe this and hope I can make this clear. This is for HO scale. There are a total of 12 little bits of styrene used to make these and I will refer to the sizes by letter code:

Group, The latest Intermountain Product Release page at: InterMountain HO Scale Upcoming Releases InterMountain HO Scale Upcoming Releases InterMountain News & Information View on www.intermountain-ra

Group, I'm in the middle of working on an S scale flatcar kit and would like some help on dealing with the deck. It is laser cut micro-plywood and is really well done. The issue is in S scale it is wa

Group, This is a new thread, but is part of the conversation on pre-WWII covered hoppers. One of the earliest of covered hoppers are the ones shown in the August of 1964 Model Railroader and offered b

Dennis, Thanks for the reply. It would have been nice if I would have stated HO scale as well. This would probably be a relatively simple resin casting taken from another car as master, but I have yet

Group, Does anybody make a separate detail part of hopper vibrator castings? Many models have these and some are way past the future of this list, but most are molded on. Please let me know if there a

Group, Does anybody have a good clear picture of any of the Owens Illinois covered hoppers with the Duraglas lettering? These are GACX cars in the 40000 to 40199 series and are the small 1321 cuft car

Mike, See: CRGX 657 | The Fox River Branch CRGX 657 | The Fox River Branch Home › Image Galleries › Foxriver Branch Freight Cars › CRGX 657 CRGX 657 Submitted by admin on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 21:11 This

Guys, Since the topic of hand brakes is currently relevant, I would like to ask the opinion of the group on how best to model the hand brake gear on a Q FM-14 in both HO and S scale. These are the won

Mike, The idea of bolsters and center sills on the Atlas car is interesting. Has Atlas corrected the car, or has the UPHS created parts to correct this? If the UPHS has created parts, can they be purc

Clark, Yes. And they are set up for the old version, not the new version, but it just requires the mounting hole to be opened up and tapped. One other thing about these cars is the couplers tend to be

Chuck, I have not used that particular product, but have used similar ones. Always put down a piece of tape under the liquid masking. Then when you pull up the tape, the masking will come with it. Put

Rich, In the "teach a man to fish" category, I had forgotten about the great PRR site you listed and my first search only turned up the truck drawings, but the second time found a very obvious page at

Rich, Thank you very much for the reply and the link. Just to be a bit of a pain on this, what would be a safe bet for the as delivered trucks on the early (1935 built) H30? If I remember correctly th

Group, Just received the new Bowser PRR H30 cars. Very nice. Will leave accuracy comments to those who know although I did peruse TKM 8 since I see what appears to be an issue. The model is 254266 sho

Group, Doing some research on CB&Q 70T cars built in the early 50s shows them riding on their no. 73 truck as shown in the picture on the link: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=765