Hello Group, I really appreciate all the best wishes and comments posted, thank you everyone. Sam Clarke R&D / Tech Advisor / Artist Kadee Quality Products Co. mail@... 541-826-3883

Hello group and friends, This is to formally announce my retirement after 26 years with Kadee Quality Products. My actual last day at work will be October the 6th. My health is good and my plans are t

Hello Brian and group, Kadee cars have stryene bodies and Delrin parts, the bodies have a thin layer of water base paint and the parts are unpainted. Sam Clarke R&D / Tech Advisor / Artist Kadee Quali

Hello group, I'm only going chime in with a few comments. First, our "primary" products are "couplers". If we depended only on "freight cars" we would not be in business, freight cars are a "secondary

Tony and group, I noticed the guy standing next to the wagon, perhaps an officer with his back to us, is wearing a sidearm, must be a rowdy group (18-19 of them) or a high crime area? Maybe he’s the o

Not being a barge expert, since I was born and raised in Nevada, I can see the reason of the “V” as the tug is actually pushing against sides of the barges sort of wedged in. The lashing is meant to k

It looks like the trucks are 1954/55 Internationals. Sam Clarke R&D / Tech Advisor / Artist Kadee Quality Products Co. mail@... 541-826-3883

Thanks Ed. Tim do you need to see a photo of the Southern with a 6 foot door? We might make a few mistakes but not a 6 foot door mistake. Also ORER’s information is dependent on the actual RRs submitt

Tim, we already are doing both the 6 and 7 foot door cars. As I mentioned we are only “considering” the 8 foot door cars. I really doubt that we’d consider the 10’ high cars as it would require toolin

Randy, much of the time for in service cars is a matter having “really good” photos that we can read all the small data and see the details of the car. There are many roads and paint schemes we have n

Oops, I don’t know how my brain was going fast than my fingers. Chris the roofs cannot be made as a separate part. We might eventually do some of these cars as kits but not for a while. Because of the

Chris the roofs cannot be made as a separate part. We might eventually do some of these cars as kits but not for a while. Because of the virus we are actually we can’t even keep up with our present sa

OK Guys, If the tank cars are on our list and don’t have a complicated paint scheme we’ll eventually get around to the roads you’ve mentioned. I’ll check them out. Sam Clarke Research and Development,

Hello STMFC, That’s a pretty good list that Ben Hom gave us. 6 ft - ATSF, CGW, CIL, CMO, CNW, COPR, CP, DSS&A, KCS, LS&BC, MKT, NYC, P&WV, SOU, UP 7 ft - B&M, LV, MEC, NH 8 ft - SAL, SL-SF, SOU Yes, t

I sent this to Dan a few moments ago. Dan, thanks for your comments. I was working at the Naval Depot in Hawthorne (NADHAW) at the time, When they brought back some of the unexploded bombs we done a l

Although past the dates of this group, in April 1973 a bomb laden train blew up in Roseville, CA it was cause by a hot wheel or journal box. The train just arrive at the SP yard after descending the S

I was off work yesterday and when I returned this morning I found my STMFC file sadly filled with “BILL WELCH” in the subject and my heart just dropped filled with the sorrow of loosing another man of

Another huge void left by a great man. May God bless him and comfort his family. Sam Clarke R&D / Tech Advisor / Artist Kadee Quality Products Co. mail@... 541-826-3883

In the past Denny came up to medford. OR for different things and he’d come out to Kadee to visit and we’d have lunch together and he’d become a good friend. God bless him, as we continually pray for

An old modelers trick (I’m sure many of you must know) is to melt and stretch a “styrene” sprue. Use a piece of sprue a couple of inches long or more, hold the center over an open flame until one end