Sorry for the very random request - anyone have a lead on photos of the WAB 7000-7299 Series? Thanks! Dean ONeill Redmond WA

Rob, Not sure if this will help, but I did do a skim of the "Write Up Books" from the 1930s for South Tacoma for boxcar service, or accident repairs. The table below shows the car serviced, year, and

STMFC, A couple notes about the excellent Rapido HO NP boxcars in the 100000-13999 series. The January issue of Railroad Model Craftsman has a nine page, 20 photo article by Chris Frissell that descri

Here is another photo of the trucks, this from the prototype (along with others) used by Rapido. Dean ONeill Redmond WA

STMFC, The NPRHA has developed a decal set in HO scale for the NP 10000 series boxcars, recently manufactured by Rapido. The sheet includes unique stencils, common placards/forms, reweigh/lube stencil

All, Thanks for all the great input. I had no clue about Railroad Chalk. $16 for a whole box on Ebay! I guess I should have mentioned the reason for my question. I am developing decals for the Rapido

I have a question(s) on chalk marks. As I look at old photos, it appears there are two "thickness" of chalk marks. Chalk marks made with a THIN piece of chalk, much like a school room piece of chalk.

Tony Thompson and all, That is interesting. I have State Farm homeowners insurance, and I called about my large collection of freight cars (twice). They said it was not covered as it was a special hob

Steve, I have kind of given up on Detail Associates 229-6215, they are so hard to find, and now overpriced (last few years). Switched to Tangent’s offering, although those are not cheap either (5 pair

In the Photos section, in a folder named Dean ONeill, I posted an example of the "rubber cement" paint peeling method, that I have been very happy with. This is on a Kadee car. Dean ONeill Redmond WA

Re: New sprue cutters from PBL... All, They seem to be already sold out at PBL, not listed. Bummer, my old PBL/Utica nipper could use replacing. Dean O’Neill Redmond WA

I have really enjoyed this discussion of RR typography. It makes me wonder if there are enough of us that are into this RR typography and decal development - maybe we could start our own Yahoo group d

Re: Rapido announced a NP 10000 series boxcar All, Regarding Reweigh and Repack dates for the new Rapido NP boxcar – one thing we (the NPRHA modeling committee) are thinking of doing developing a set