http://www.kadee.com/htmbord/page78.htm - notice the different shape of the center and the coil spring. The SC&F and RYM resin kits have a molded coupler pocket with that type of setup for the coil sp

Well crap. The 178 is just a 158 in the narrow box. The 78 had the coil centering spring like the old #4 and does seem to be gone. You would have to do some mods to the center stud of a coupler box de

78 or 178? There is no 78 listed on their site, 178 is still available. Comes in its own draft gear which you will probably need to discard. I have some of the SC&F tank cars unbuilt of course. Andy

I didn't know they were discontinued. Most RYM kits (also discontinued) require them. Andy

I guess I should have known that. As someone has many times carried a Christmas tree into the house with two hands, and carried it out four weeks later with one hand. A 40' wood box car or even a stee

This may seem like a stupid question, but what was the purpose of reweighing cars at a particular interval? If something was done to change the weight of a car such as a rebuilding or alteration, chan

Well the Pullmans were within 20 years of the Hundman articles.... Andy

You say this as if I've never paid for a photo, which you have no way of knowing. That's the thing, availability. I don't mind paying for photos but they need to be available and I need to be sure the

I bought one when it was first released and all the rage, still under the Gould label. I never built it because I really didn't know what to do with it - back then I just tended to buy anything I thou

Must have missed that. I was looking around the web site but didn't look under wheel sets. Rip Van Harman

I first became interested in accurate freight car modeling in the early 1980s. I had a friend who was a college student and he couldn't afford to build locomotives, so he built freight cars - a fair n

This is fun to try and test my memory without looking it up... my normal source is old MR ads and what not, but those are all in storage while I fix up my basement. I remember the Gould tank car and I

I bought an RBM kit around 1977. I think it was a tank car. I ebayed it some years ago unbuilt. I don't think that was their first kit though. Did that predate the Intermountain Canadian Cylindrical?

Are these still available? How do they compare to the ladders that come with Branchline and RC kits? Andy

And if properly adjusted you can play Foggy Mountain Breakdown on your truss rods :-) Andy

I couldn't have said it better... the things were extremely tedious to put together but well worth the effort in the end. This can still be quite effective as Rail Yard Models has done on their kits.

Has anyone installed code 88 wheels in these yet? I was looking at the Reboxx web site and they recommended a 1.115" axle length for the older Kadee trucks. I tried them in a pair of the new A3s and t

I ended up with a grand total of two... the Wabash box car and the N&W gondola. I was just thumbing through his ebay (completed) listings... I could have used that P&WV postwar box car but oh well. I

I have installed them on a few cars, they look great but take some getting used to. The self-centering mounting system is sort of a built-in suspension. It doesn't play nice with other mechanisms like

I've been waiting 7(?) years for a replacement roof for the piece of bacon that came with my NYC/Rutland baggage car. Andy