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model him a line I've often considered this kitbash but lacked the ends... Definitely interested!

from Trains.com Model Train Magazine Index.... Missouri Pacific Limestone Hoppers Model Railroading, August 1991 page 20 ( HOPPER, LIMESTONE, "LOFTON, MARTIN", MP, FREIGHTCAR, PROTOTYPE, MRG )

I seem to remember painting one for a customer years ago. Not sure who made it (Custom Brass or Oriental maybe?) or how good it was. Jerry the X30 boxcar (X30?)....the one singular car used to transpo

As Sunshine rebuilt USRA boxcars are long since discontinued (and early production/quality by today's standards) are any of the Sylvan Scale Models USRA rebuilt boxcars good for any US roads? Jerry

Has anyone worked with the Merle Rice castings, specifically the ones for the Tennessee Central boxcar? I want to build the original version and he advises the car orriginally had a flat panel roof li

The main page http://dti.railfan.net/ has a pic of the car and alludes to roof shots (I didn't have time to look for them). Jerry Glow wrote: wrote:

YES! I rembember trying to kitbash or build one of these years ago! BTW do you have the URL to the pic(s) you mentioned? Jerry Message: 15 Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:52:30 -0000 From: "ed_mines" <ed_mi

I saved the last pull off lid from a 3lb (well 39oz) coffee can. It seems to be a relatively tough but thin material that might do well for this purpose and "patch panels" etc. I think they're also on

What roads had the early production PS-1 without the "bowties" on the end panels? I know CGW did but who else? Jerry in Fla

What roof would the car in the inclosed link have had? http://www.steamfreightcars.com/gallery/boxauto/crr5307.html Jerry in Fla

Richard: I have both the GA & FLA and CE&I cars from Sunshine and looked at both roofs. They appear very similar to the one on the Accurail car (don't know if the differences are actual or modeling in

Any chance anyone could use a Sunshine Rock Island 14100 series single sheathed boxcar (kit #57.1)? Somehow I wound up with two and really don't want both. Ideally I'd like to trade if for a MP 40' Ho

this string and the information is getting like a bad rumor - further from the truth with each itteration. Home canners use PARAFIN - not beeswax to seal jars. Jerry in Fla whose mom used to put up a

Thats why I use a "blowgun" to remove as much excess water of the cleaned model to miminize deposits. Jerry in Fla -----------original msg -------------- Message: 4 Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 09:45:20 -04

I haven't looked into fixing the Atlas reefer with these but I may try thinning them down, and either "skive" off the originals or just use the elongated tips on an Intermountain R40-10 to more correc

I doubt resin casting techniques (as we know it) could produce enough volume of production to justify pad printing. Jerry in Fla wrote: kit possibilities.

Strangely (?) the same individual was associated with Oriental and now BLI. Jerry in Fla Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:09:48 -0400 From: "Denis F. Blake" <dblake2996@...> Subject: Re: Broadwa

If you have access to a vinyl cutter, it would be simple enough to create a mask to create the underlayer of lettering. You don't even have to be too exact as to fonts etc as it will be mostly obliter

Last e-mail address I had for Ron Van Werder is: rocketexpress1@... Jerry in Fla