Agreed for the mineral red and brown roofs and ends, but not so much for the light oxide roofs. If I can find proper decals to piece together the end lettering, I’ll repaint the roof and ends of those

Thanks, Fred. I’ll start a spreadsheet to document responses. Hopefully, yours won’t be the only one. Nelson Moyer

About ten years ago I built a large number of assorted boxcars, hoppers, gondolas, and flat cars for many roads, all from Branchline, Intermountain, Red Caboose, and P2K kits. At the time, I was cluel

Reminds me of the BLI Rock Island E6, which was also purple. Yuk! Nelson Moyer

I hate preordering because we’re buying pigs in pokes, in the most recent case, multi-colored pigs in pokes. I pre-ordered twelve steel and wood PFE reefers. The first six have arrived over the past t

Not even close. Nelson Moyer

Thanks, but the blade would take a lot of surgery, and after that, the compound curves still wouldn’t look quite right. Nelson Moyer

Getting the compound parabolic curve right would be a challenge. Much easier for a person skilled with SketchUp to import photos and create a drawing suitable for 3D printing. The blades were mounted

GN had identical blades as far as I can determine. Maybe the GN faithful will confirm that assertion? Nelson Moyer

The CB&Q used gondola wedge push plows in the early years, but in 1948, they scrapped the gondolas, salvaged the wedge blades, and mounted them on FM-11 and FM-11A flat cars. I’d like to model one of

The CB&Q used gondola wedge push plows in the early years, but in 1948, they scrapped the gondolas, salvaged the wedge blades, and mounted them on FM-11 and FM-11A flat cars. I’d like to model one of

Here’s my guess: ATSF 141702 has National Type B-2 trucks. You can use Kadee or Walthers, maybe others? ATSF 144028 looks like AAR Double Truss trucks best represented by TMW-107. Nelson Moyer

Bill makes a valid point about drilling on the sprue, and that’s the way I do it as well. I use a #79 bit for the wire, and there is a molded dimple on the retainer valve to help you start the bit. Bi

I recommend plastic as they are easier to drill for 0.008 in. wire pipe. Nelson Moyer

Dan, you are right, a few wipes of lacquer thinner won’t remove the insulation, however, you are also wrong, soaking wire in lacquer thinner for several hours does soften the insulation, and then it i

That works, but you can remove the lacquer insulation from magnet wire with a few wipes of lacquer thinner and do the same thing. The large array of wire diameters available as magnet wire give you mo

Never mind. I figured out that I need to use the Permanent Ling to This Book URL. It’s now working. Nelson Moyer

I downloaded and installed the download helper program, and when I enter the book URL, I get an invalid URL message. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102184919?type%5B%5D=all&lookfor%5B%5D=Rules%

I love it. Every time we get a definitive answer to a question, new material surfaces to disprove it. I guess I’ll keep my steel strap aka chart tape. Nelson Moyer

Oh well, just one more incongruence on my railroad. Nelson Moyer