Hello again, You are pretty safe using the standard PS-1 underframe brake details. There were a few variations here and there, mounting brackets, pipe bending, and such but these are not noticeable. I

Hello Mr. McCoy, From the few photos we have on this MILW series of PS-1s here is a little more information. MILW series 29000-29499 is a 500 car order from PS lot 8449. The cars from 29000 to 29399 c

My apologies to Mr. Buchwald and Ed Hawkins, Ed is correct. After I enlarged the photo and compared it to similar angled photos of UP cars it appears that it is a 50 foot PS-1 with "twin alternating r

Hello Mr. Buchwald, The PS-1 box car in your photo is a 40 foot car from UP series 100000-101599, PS lot 5908, 1600 cars built in 1948 without the rectangles at the peak next to the hand wheel common

Hello Mark Heiden, All of the photos that we have of this series of PS-1s have the Morton running board, which has the round holes. The brake step is a Morton with round holes. Also note that there ar

Hello Todd and Ed, It certainly is an issue with tooling cost being justified by potential sales and the actual production quantity of cars. In this case I don't believe we'd be interested, not only b

Hello Clark, Since I did not see a response to your question I thought I'd mention a bit of experience I had growing up (I'm still in that never ending process). My farther ran a service station in th

Hello Shawn, Yes, we plan on doing several of the private roads, it's just a matter of time. It's a very slow process of getting to all the requests with only one road name a month. Sam Clarke Kadee Q

Hello Mr. Turner, Unfortunately, neither of our undec PS-2s would be a direct suitable match for the SOU PS-2s. The Southern had 3 Pullman lots of these hopper cars and all of them have the much less

Hello Mr. Greg Martin, Please contact me off list at mail@... and I'll be happy to discuss your issues about our PS-2 PRR hopper. We welcome comments good or bad about our products and if you ne

Hello Shawn Becket, Bobs' Photo has a photo of NAHX #31060 with the large Boraxo paint scheme. S-Helper did this car in "S" scale but unfortunately used the wrong body style. The car has the 1954-56 c

Shawn, The information on our "dealers with out of stock cars list" is up dated only when the dealers themselves give us new information. There are a number of dealers that send us "updates" quite oft

Hello Tim, There would have been a tremendous amount of broken bags to leave as much as what shows in the photos. It's really heavy along the edges and over half way up the inside of the opposing door

We have several photos of BCK 40' PS-1 box cars with open doors showing the remains of bulk loose white powder (assuming it's flour because of the printing on the side of the car, see below) and speci

Mr. Carlson, Kadee Products #441 and #442 are the snap on brake shoes we use on our freight cars. Both retail at $1.75 for a package of 4. The #441 is designed for our standard 50 ton trucks and the #

Hello, Naval Gun Barrel Fans, The previously mentioned 16" barrels stored in Hawthorne Naval Ammunition Depot were there for a very long time. Hawthorne is about 130 Hwy miles south of Reno and was fe