Bud, he told me at Berea that he wasn't making much in Buffalo NY. Also did I show you the ERDX photo I have, or is it the same one you have. Brian Carlson BlackDiamondRR@... wrote: Ron, Thanks for

Tim, I looked at the list of stan's parts on Ted's Steam Era Freight Cars website and it doesn't list these ends, do you have a newer listing which shows these parts, or were just getting my hopes up.

ed, Walthers gold series cars have to this point been assembled Walthers kits. Therefore I am inclined to believe these are the older Walthers (old T-M) 2-bay hoppers. However, I'd love to be told the

Ben, thanks for the correction, all the other Gold Series, (funnel flow tank car, USRA Gon, Autorack) cars I've seen have been Walthers products, wonder why they are offering built up Accurails. I was

Are Chrysler FR-5 trucks available in HO. I need a pair for a project. If not what have others done to kitbash them. Brian J Carlson

Regarding the Ma &Pa XL's Al Westerfield mentioned to me that they stayed on the Ma &Pa and were not suitable for interchange, which explains them lasting as long as they did. Brian Carlson ----------

If anyone is interested the History Channel (or maybe Discovery Channel) recently covered this in one of their programs. I caught it while flipping channels so I don't recall which program. Brian Carl

I received Ted's book via Fed Ex yesterday and finished reading it today. A most excellent book from a historical and modeling prospective. The large amount of photo's will clear things up when I get

I was quoted $99 for my 3 cars, if I recall correctly Brian Carlson Ted Culotta <tculotta@...> wrote: $120, which seems a bit pricy, but I grab when I see so I don't bemoan not having somet

Color me slightly confused on this topic. Looking over Sunshine's list (thanks Ben) and F&C's offering we have several 1932 boxcars, and the newer F&C's are one piece bodies, and if you catch them at

I am about to start decaling my first Westerfield model. What decal setting solution do you guys recommend for their decals. I have Solvaset, Champ setting solution, and Microscale,both Micro sol and

Thanks all. Since the first model I plan to decal is a carload of PRR HB-1 containers for the G22B gondola. I may try Champ on one side and Mircoscale on the other since I plan to weather the crap out

What are the visual differences between the AAR 70 ton introduced in the early 1940's and the AAR 50 ton flat introduced at the same time. Can the LL P2k 50 ton flat be used as a resonable stand-in fo

Sorry hit send to quicky and forgot to sign my post. I hate using this Yahoo web based email. Brian J carlson

Ted, I was looking at the Sunshine list and saw the Erie 8000 series cars, was just wondering if I should order it or if I could modify the p2k car (which I have extras of) looks like I'll order one b

I hope Ted is serious, since I pre-ordered a set of these cars from my dealer since Trix was offering two of them in schemes from Niagara Falls, and I thought they would be really neat on the layout,

I picked up a RTR (I know bad word) IM DTTX F60-GH. These were built in 1959 so they just fit within the scope of the list. My question is that since this car is RTR there are no instructions, however

I realize from ATSF Refrigerator Cars book that the Santa Fe stopped painting map side cars in 1947. How quickly were they repainted into the "Ship and travel" scheme? Could some map cars still be fou

Frank, as a followup to Jack's message, a good Westerfield one piece body kit to start with is a model of the PRR G22 gondola car. It was the first one I built and went together real easy. Brian Carls

Dean, you may want to Check the PRRTHS TKM #4, 11-03 where Elden Gatwood covered modeling these cars in resin, while I couldn't really tell if he shimed his cars (At least one was the Sunshine model t