Ed,Where is volume 10 ?Armand Premo

There are many hobby shop across the country that have large inventories of kits(Mostly decorated) by Intermountain ,Branchline and Red Caboose.The problem will be greater when these inventories are s

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Coal was sometimes delivered in canvas bags for small orders.Are we looking at some of those bags rather than chunks of coal?Armand Premo;

If we didn't,my roster would be reduced by half.I am attempting to replace all"fill in" or "close enough"cars with resin.I may be in the minority,but I still like to build my own cars.Armand

I am pleased that the "Prototype Police" are active.Maybe what we really need is a "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval" for each and every model.Thanks guys.Armand Premo

Best bet yet is to split a three pack with some buddies.A.Premo

IMHO There are far too Few Pennsy steel Box Cars other than the X29s.For what it's worth.Armand Premo

Sorry Ben,my thought was in reference to the availability of Pennsy box car kits other than the X29.In fact, I have more X29s than all other PRR box cars on my roster.Armand Premo

Being in possession of a fairly large number of switch lists (consists) I have been able to develop car populations for an entire month on a single division of the railroad that I am modeling.I am end

I have a 1926 Moodys that I will let go for an even hundred.Armand Premo

FWIW.There are a great many variables in determining a realistic mix of freight cars.I offer the following as a starting place: Location ,(Region ,Division),Date,Season,Road modeled,Train number and..

What are the number series for B&M single sheath box cars,with different doors and roofs?

You are lucky,I got it 50 times.A Premo

Elden,I have sometimes found car numbers stenciled on the underframe,on trucks and on the inside.Armand Premo

Twofer:Generally the car number would be located on the frame almost in the center of the car.I have a color shot of an all green PS-1 that I took.These were painted solid green after the Rutland ceas

Sorry to say,but they are not even accurate for those that you mentioned.Armand Premo

I suspect that the so called "Golden Age for model railroaders "is over and is now being replaced by the "Golden age for the distributor's".Our gold in their pockets.Distributors do not produce or dev