My one and only experience with REA was in 1974, well toward their demise. I was discharged from the Air Force at Little Rock Air Force Base and moving back to Florida. The Mayflower driver loading my

Does anyone offer decals for the Swift red and white scheme reefers besides Champ HR-42? The Clover House dry transfers are for steel cars circa 1954, so the data are wrong for 2500 and 6700 series ca

Be sure to check the phase for your model. For example, the phase 1 builds bought by the CB&Q did not have the radiator grills. What I’m saying is that this drawing may not be correct for the prototyp

Accurail cars are like all off the shelf models, both kit and RTR, in that manufacturers select one prototype or a composite of multiple prototypes for the dies and paint the cars for several roads. T

Welcome to the club. Washing parts depends on who made the kit and what mold release they used. Some mold releases are hard to completely remove, and some paints like Tru Color have poor adherence to

Thanks, Bill. I order a set. Nelson Moyer

I bought a Sunshine sliding plug door reefer at an estate sale, and the kit had no decals in the box. I’d like to build it as a FHIX or WHIX car with electrical fan if I can locate decals. Does anyone

Nicely built and interesting car. Every time I see a unique car like, this that I know won't ever be commercially available again, I morn the demise of Sunshine. Nelson Moyer

The Swift car is Rapido factory paint. The unfinished car is Tru Color Armour Yellow, and the BREX car is Tru Color WFE Yellow. WFE yellow represents newly painted car, Armour yellow represents a car

Thanks for the photos and blog link, Doug. I have enough information now to finish painting the two 6700 series and one 2500 series cars under construction. All three will be in the red scheme. Nelson

Wilson operated a large packing plant in Oklahoma City in the 1970s, but I don’t know when it opened or closed. A friend who worked for IBM designed and maintained their computer system as a full time

OK, Wilson started out more yellow-orange than orange, but that’s not consortium reefer yellow. I have some yellow cars (WFE, FGE, and BRE) that I should have included in the comparison photo for refe

Railroad Prototype Cyclopedia Volume 21 has a comprehensive article on Armour reefers that you will find helpful. I don’t know of any Wilson references. Nelson Moyer

Here are three variations on reefer orange and reefer yellow. The Wilson car is definitely orange. The Scalecoat II 1 to 5 mix approximates the Wilson color. The Kingan car is medium orange-yellow, an

Thanks for posting the model photos, however, I think Rapido is closer to reality. Atlas is too yellow. Maybe I should post a photo of my Rapido models. Nelson Moyer

Sunshine instructions for the Swift 6700 series in the yellow banner scheme suggest chrome yellow (very bright) or a Scalecoat II mix (1 part reefer orange and 5 parts reefer yellow), but that is way

I’ll look at the RMJ and MR articles. I’ve learned not to trust model photos, as even some cars in Sunshine instructions and PDSs are built and/ or painted wrong, e.g. cross bearers and/or cross ties

I’m building two Sunshine 6700 series reefers, and I only have two photos of these cars, both in black and white. SRLX 6723 is painted in the yellow banner scheme, and it’s clear that the underframe c

The Morning Sun Books eBook bundle, Open Top Loads – Flatcar and Gondola Color Portfolio, Volume 1 & 2, have at least ten photos of open top coil loads in addition to many closed top coil cars, struct

Thanks for the clarification and the tutorial from Gene. Nelson Moyer