It is SOP with model railroad manufacturers. I don’t understand it at all as the other injected plastic hobbies are doing very nicely producing kits. Why do the plastic car, aircraft, armor and ship m

John, I am really only interested in replicating the O-21 class car as seen in the pic. I may also do an O-23 class as it is nearly the same but built by ACF with Youngstown doors and different trucks

Fenton, thanks for that. Allan, I dug that out of my files, yay! Anyone know why these aren’t among the list of 1937 AAR Modified Design? Is it because of the double doors? To complicate matters, thes

Thanks gang. Steve, thanks for the awesome link! Tim, I think you are right, probably start with a 1937 modified 10’6” IH and convert to double door. What do we call these ends, 4.75 / 5 ends? I assum

Speaking of ACL, can you guys ID this car and closest model? Looks like _1675. Brian Shumaker

Star brand paint, a P-B-L exclusive, is a lacquer and should only be thinned with Star Brand Lacquer Thinner. The multi-paint layer weathering technique using fiberglass and wire brushes is unique. Fu

Rob, you’re alive! I haven’t heard or seen you in years. Last I heard you were working in Proto48. Brian Shumaker

must have been bagged cement.

Having just dumped a batch of unneeded locos on EBay and having to suffer 10% in fees plus the PayPal fees I’m just about done selling on the platform. For EBay to default to PayPal for purchases, it

Wow, as in Dixon "Ticonderoga" the pencil makers! Now we just need them in .011 width. Brian

Peoria & Pekin Union was a transfer railroad operation which probably didn’t own any revenue equipment, I need to check an Official Guide. Brian

If you use a solvent based color coat and/or clear coat, water based weathering can be wiped off with isopropyl alcohol before it dries completely. Chalk can be washed off with water. It's best to jus

I’ve been a PWV fan for years but lack of available locos kept me at bay. I like their black boxcars. Brian

American La France firetruck Co., in Elmira NY? These cars were made, I believe, just for them. This might be unloading somewhere as I see a Western Maryland Freight House in the background and WM did

From photographs it seems one can almost assume that the all-steel cars probably were built with galvanized roofs and many wood-sided cars and some railroad manufactured cars(PRR, B&O, Milw, etc) may

A recent post on another forum discussed weathering of steel boxcar roofs and I queried if all cars had galvanized roofs. Why, does it seem, some cars shed their roof top paint and others didn't? Did

Oh, I gotta build me one of those NALX trains! Anyone have a side view? Brian