Clark, I looked up my Q hopper roster to get the car classes, and I don’t find series 190000-191749 listed as such. I found 19000-19499 (HT-1) and 190500-190999 (HT-2). The next class I have is 192000

I found the TSP product catalog online and at the bottom is this note: Train Station Products' are not sold directly to the retail public. Please contact your local hobby store. Note: All diesel engin

Why not just look up the flash point of the solvents your concerned about? Nelson Moyer

Which is exactly what I use to vent my paint booth. The article on my paint booth in a shower was published in the NMRA magazine April 2011. Nelson Moyer

I’ve cut down cardboard boxes into paint shields (no fan) and painted with rattle cans in the garage with the door open while wearing a respirator to keep overspray from messing up the paint booth. Th

One thing that hasn’t been mentioned is make-up air, i.e. air supply to replace the air you’re blowing out through the booth. If you’re drawing a negative pressure in the room, you’re reducing the eff

I’m using flexible duct from the paint booth to a bathroom fan duct (bathroom fan supplements the squirrel cage fan on the paint booth). The flexible run is about 6 ft. and the sheet metal duct is abo

I use a Paasche paint booth that’s 22 in. wide and 18 in. tall at the face. That’s a little small for painting with a rattle can (larger spray pattern and makes a mess in the paint booth), but I use a

I agree with you, Bill, I was only providing a lower cost alternative. I tried Kadee, but didn’t like them, and Kadee wheel sets leave much to be desired. I never use them. Nelson Moyer

Walthers and Kadee also make them. I’ve used Walthers. Nelson Moyer

It depends on the car class and date it was painted. New boxcars heralds generally had white lettering and outline on black background until 1940-41, when the black background was eliminated. Repaints

Intermountain isn't the only miscreant. I had the same problem with a purple RI E6 from BLI. Not even close to RI maroon. Then there are the six shades of CB&Q gray from Walthers (three different shad

All the more reason to avoid Intermountain RTR and build resin, where you paint it yourself. Let the unwashed masses support their business model. Nelson Moyer

It may be apocryphal, but I was told that early CB&Q paint shop instructions for mixing mineral red (the Q called it Indian Red) was by the number of handfuls of the red pigment they mined in Wyoming

Ed was the color consultant for Tru Color, ergo Tru Color offers both freight car colors. Nelson Moyer

Thanks for the update, Dick. I'm relieved that the only issues have to do with the brake system, which is easy to fix. Nelson Moyer

That’s really a practical shipping method, because it only requires one loading and one unloading of the individual cars. Much less opportunity of damage. Too bad it’s beyond my era, because that is o

Very astute! I ordered six now in my hold box at the dealer awaiting imminent arrival of some GP-7s. Intermountain ignores complaints about errors and foobies, so nothing changes. My last three orders

The Q painted all boxcars a mineral red color on all surfaces including trucks through 1958. I don’t model beyond that date, so I won’t comment on the Chinese Red era. I like Tru Color CB&Q Freight Ca

I scan the few articles of interest from MR and RMC so I can search them on the hard drive using keywords. The problem with that is that as interests and needs change, I have to go back through the ma