A slightly different question... How do you remove a roofwalk that is humped or partially dislodged without kinking it? They are often quite secure in other places and if they are glued with some type

While setting out some of my Wabash box cars at Marion, when I picked up one car it snagged the edge of the other car's roofwalk and it just came undone all at once. Which was a good thing because it

I am not familiar with this particular car but it reminds me of the later B&O "canstock" box cars which had the doors offset to the ends. This had something to do with being able to load and unload st

I didn't jump on you. Andy

I'd like to say it comes with age. In my case the age was about 6. Andy :-)

If there's one thing more irksome than using someone's idea of a nonstandard coupler height, or somebody else's Chinese puzzle assembly, or somebody else's DCC-quirk-of-the-week, or somebody else's pa

To paraphrase Orwell, some annoyers are more annoying than others. I've never been annoying enough. The one and only time I ever achieved any success - as in, getting an error fixed before a model wen

ISTR being lambasted for not taking this up with the manufacturer last time because I already knew they wouldn't listen. Plenty of folks did, and they didn't. Glad I didn't waste my time. From what I'

That old kit is the rare "max headroom" ice reefer. Sent from my overpriced graham cracker

I pulled the needle out of its plastic holder. The total length including the beveled points at both ends is about .750". The O.D. measures just under .010". The smallest wire I have on hand is DA .00

Bobby is the only person I know that could drill an .009" hole through an .010" styrene rod...... Andy

I need to measure the pen needles I use for injecting my daily Victoza shot... it's a non-insulin maintenance thing for type 2 diabetics. The needles are maybe 10-12mm long but not sure the diameter.

I never knew plastic tubing this small existed. I think I might buy some just to have, as I'm sure I will find a use for it. Andy

Actually for my (mumble) era there were more of the NKP 3-bay offset side cars in service than the 2-bay, and there's no model that currently exists of that car either. The old MDC and/or the Stewart/

The minikit came with decals for both C&O and Montour, those may be worth more than the resin parts alone. Andy

One of the Naperville Sunshine Minikit giveaways was a set of side overlays to convert an Atlas AAR offset side hopper to the alternate standard, and it came with decals for Montour and Cambrian & Ind

As you know I have kind of a drop bottom gondola fetish that, like my passenger train fetish, extends beyond my normal modeling era and scope. I actually have a couple of Challenger brass GS gondolas

I too have some stash of vintage HO freight cars from the 1950s and 60s, but my reason for having them is nostalgic rather than prototype modeling. As such I look for complete original cars in good co

Can you get them off? I've gotten good deals on marked down books that had 18 price stickers plastered on them (is the lowest price the on? Nope, add them together). Ever tried to get multiple sticker

No, but "it's more expensive because it's a resin kit", "it takes more effort to build because it's a resin kit", and "it's very limited production because it's a resin kit" are all basically true and