smithbf@... writes: I've got to believe that no railroad shop foreman allowed his painters to fuss around with masking off the steel & wood underframe parts separately on repainted cars! S

steamera@... writes: Point well taken. But the Sk-2/3 numbers while pretty big, are bigger still when you add in the other stock cars built from Bx-3/6 box cars, the Sk-5's. The spotting differ

newrail@... writes: I have a few (5 in total) of these from Sunshine (yes, they're built!), and I like em! Seems to me a good choice for the plastic car kit environment. I have a few of these in

Brian, I don't know if you have the Santa Fe stock car book or not (still available from the society's web page a few weeks ago) but it would help you decide which class of cars the KD car is closest

newrail@... writes: I agree, that Sunshine's' Rr-5 - Rr-9 & 11 kits make a nice model, a tribute to Frank Hodina's work with the masters. Those kits (#'s 16.1 & 16.2) were the first accurate SFR