Carmer levers stayed on many cars until retirement. There was no mandate for replacement. Brian J. Carlson

Wow. Horrendous take. Brian J. Carlson

I look at it this way. $90 is only 10-12 photos from Bob. I be also pre-ordered. Brian J. Carlson

Be aware Rapido trucks can be funky to adapt to other models since the factory seems to modify bolster/truck mounting with each model. Brian J. Carlson

Today, and the past 40 years, the longest straight bars normally available are 60ft. Variety of reasons for that not worth discussing. I wasn’t around in the steam era so I don’t know if it was the sa

Scott. Dennis is using the straws as a form. The wire goes on the outside of the straws. Brian J. Carlson

The height of the rib on modern rebar is a max of 0.15d. For a #8 this is 0.15” in HO this is 0.0017” Getting into the bill Welch extreme modeling now. Brian J. Carlson

26 gauge in Ho is between a #10 and #11 bar. It’s on the bigger side. 32 gauge wire would be a #6. The problem in HO is it is small. Brian J. Carlson

I have two duplicate cars for sale. Box NIB. Boxes a little dusty. Rapido Dubuque Meat Reefer. 63041 12-53 reweigh Red whit and black box. I think this was 1st run. $35 Intermountain war emergency box

Does anyone know of a replacement deck for the IM flat car noted above. I have one of the new runs, and the deck is very thick and humped like Quasimodo. I’d like to replace it with some thing thinner

According to the sku, this. Advantus 2612TW 12 Long Tag Wires 1 000 Wires per Pack walmart.ca Brian J. Carlson

The prototype photos in the first post are pipe. The only photo of anything rebar-like is the model photo at the end. One caveat is repair loads would generally be of long straight pieces. Sizes gener

It’s actually an epoxy coating. Well past list cut off. Galvanized bar is also a modern treatment. Personally, I much prefer galvanized to epoxy. For the steam era all bars were black bar. I.e. uncoat

To my knowledge ogdensburg didn’t have an ore dock. At least not in the same sense as those on the upper Great Lakes. Brian J. Carlson

Claus. Those hoppers didn’t have the required lettering for interchange. Others may have. Interesting point. Brian J. Carlson

Guys. The question was the routing iron ore from the Adirondacks in upstate NY. While the Great Lakes shipping info is pertinent to Minnesota, Wisconsin and the upper peninsula of Michigan, it does no

NKP, Erie, and C&O all had 1937 10’ AAR cars with Viking roofs, C&O even had a batch with Deco ends if you want to get crazy. Erie 1932 ARA boxcar is another option. Not as common in 60’s as later 193

Honestly. Up to you. Roundhouse is the value line of Athearn now. That’s means they paint it however they want. Prototype accuracy is not important. Without knowing what box car they actually used it

P&L is standard for paint and lettering. Brian J. Carlson

Mont Switzer did a 12 panel welded car years ago in Mainline Modeler. I would use archer panel lines today if I was doing it. But you better have ordered them last year. Brian J. Carlson