Bill, The GN boxcars painted in vermillion had mineral red underframes and trucks. The trucks were ASF A-3 Ride Control trucks. The photos I have of the earlier repaints show that the running boards w

Stic, Yes it is the same prototype as the RCW kit. The Sunshine kit is an older kit with separate sides and ends and a two piece roof supported by gussets added to the body. The RCW kit is much easier

I just finished the last of the resin cars I was working on this month. This is GN 51527, a Sunshine Models GN double sheathed boxcar. This is the most common boxcar on the GN in the time period I am

Last night I finished ACL 56439. This is a Yarmouth Model Works kit of an O-16B automobile boxcar. This kit forced me to improve my techniques working with etched brass parts, as there are quite a few

Greetings, Thank you for the nice comments on Southern gondola 55587. As promised yesterday, today’s completed project is Rock Island 161071, a 40’ automobile boxcar built from a Sunshine Models kit.

This time with the photos attached. Sorry. Rich Remiarz Sent from Mail for Windows

I have been working on a number of resin cars this month and all should be finished in the next few days. I weather them one at a time to keep more variation in the weathering. Completed today is Sout

Raymond, They are not closed even though it may seem like it. After not being available for years, I have recently purchased parts at various hobby shops that are new runs. They are slowly getting par

Ben, The GN cars that I have photos of all had 6-5-5 ends. This car has an extra narrow rib at the top of a 7-5-5 end. Also, the steel-side rebuilds had 6 panels on each side of the door and not the 7

Tim, Thank you for the explanation. Now I understand what to look for. Rich Remiarz Sent from Mail for Windows

Doug, On January 3, Tim O’Connor posted that the Moloco roof is based on the late 1950’s version, while the 3500 series cars had the earlier version. I don’t know enough about the two versions to be a

Jeff, As Staffan already wrote, he built his model using a shortened Pacific HO roof. More recently Ted Fandel built a model of these cars using a shortened Accurail 50’ overhanging diagonal panel roo

In addition to trimming the side sill (which is based on the GN 3000-3499 series), the roof should be replaced with an overhanging diagonal panel roof. Rich Remiarz Vadnais Heights, MN Sent from Mail

Doug, I used the Yarmouth drilling fixture for Kadee bracket grabs. The holes on the left were used to attach one end of a Kadee bracket grab. The upper holes on the right were used to attach the drop

George, Attached are under-construction photos of the underframe and slack adjuster. Ignore the loose pipe going to the air reservoir. It got fixed just before I posted these photos. Rich Remiarz Sent

Happy Holidays! I just finished building two Great Northern 10’ 12-panel boxcars. The cars were built to illustrate Part 2 of an article on modeling the cars that will appear in the March 2022 GNRHS M

Bob, Sorry to take so long to respond. I was traveling and didn’t bring my computer. I apply Pan Pastels over the entire car. I use paint brushes and not sponges to apply the Pan Pastels, and this all

Greetings, Next up from the AZ built cars is CB&Q 15508, a Speedwitch XA-9 Auto Car kit. I finished this car earlier today. and brackets. The cars was painted with TruColor TCP-240 CB&Q Frt Car Red. W

Greetings, Earlier this year we headed down to AZ when the weather got cold in Minnesota and I brought a handful of resin freight car kits along. I built several cars and was able to spray them with p

Charlie, For mineral red I use Tru-Color TCP-214. During the 1950’s, until October 1, 1956, the entire car including underbody and trucks would be painted mineral red. After October 1 the GN began rep