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

The DVD files open in Adobe Reader. That’s not the problem. There is no link between issues for global search, and there is no cumulative index for manual search. In fact, there is no search engine ex

As I said, the discs are copy protected. You cannot copy them to any memory device. Nelson Moyer

I purchased the subject DVD with the intent of loading the database to my desktop and searching across issues for freight car data like I do with the 40 year MR archive. Unfortunately, neither seems p

Nice variety of cars, Fenton. I’m glad to see somebody else is building passenger cars. I posted a question on the passenger car group this morning asking about hand brakes on CB&Q heavyweight baggage

I use Tru Color for most freight cars, and decal setting solutions can soften the paint with repeated applications, so I always airbrush Model Master Clear Gloss on the areas to be decaled, to produce

RCW includes the YMW tank car straps with the boiler load. Nelson Moyer

I guess you can’t depend upon the number of stake pockets to estimate the length of a flat car. Nelson Moyer

On second thought, here’s my version of the Kewanee boiler load. Nelson Moyer

Look at Resin Car Works web site at the pictures of the Kewanee boilers on flat cars for inspiration. Nelson Moyer

Doug provided the history for the WCFN, but if you’re interested in the flat car, it’s very similar to the CB&Q FM-11/11A flat cars built between 1928 and 1930, and they too rode on Andrews trucks. Th

Sounds like the best way to way to go is to check the business listings in phone books for the year you model in the towns you model and see what you find. Another resource here in Iowa is centennial

That was the Moline plant I was referring to. Nelson Moyer

With all this talk of tractor loads, I'm wondering if there were regional followings for either Farmall red or John Deere green. I remember seeing mostly red in Indiana in the 1940 and 1950 on visits

Somebody sent me these data sheets for loading tractors on flat cars, so I’ll pass them on. I think RPC had an article on open loads, but I don’t remember the volume number. Nelson Moyer

Farmall decals came up over a year ago, and I think Tony Koester was working with someone to bring them back. I haven’t heard anything since then. Perhaps Tony will give us an update? I have twelve tr