I thought Accurail and Moloco were still manufacturing in the US. Accurail of course keeps their kits very simple. It's unfortunate that the hobby has gone the way it has. Tariff wars and mass and tec

I've had undecorated kits of the 1958 Cu Ft hoppers with no cutout on backorder for almost 5 years.

A while ago I acquired several bottles of Vallejo 71.080 Rust which I brush on (not airbrush) on the sides of rails after ballasting etc.... Why rust? I actually get the color of the rails on the sidi

I just fitted 3 sets of new Moloco .088 wheels to 3 pair of Tichy Andrews trucks and they went in with no problem and are free rolling.

Tichy can maybe retire the old Gould molding? The Rapido RTR versions will probably cost at least 4 times as much. But not having to drill the holes for grab irons may be worth it.

Very interesting photo. The photo doesn't give a location. But I would guess it is not Omaha in the winter. I like the long shop truck in the foreground and the stacked air brake reservoirs and other

This isn't an acrylic, brush or airbrush solution but you might try Tamiya Red Oxide Primer in a spray can. I like a darker Freight Car Red to better match the SP FCR color in the 1945-55 period. I us

I have a tube of Vallejo plastic putty I ordered as an experiment due to arrive tomorrow. I have found Tamiya a little messy to work with and difficult to clean the joined area. Will report when I hav

I am not an airbrush user so I can't give you an opinion on using Vallejo Brunt Red 70.814 in an air brush. But as a color, I have found it a very good match to the faded freight car red that would ty

Aha...someone else has discovered the Vallejo 70.814 as an excellent SP Freight car red. I don't airbrush (I used to, but for many reasons gave up the habit) but have found that using the Tamiya Oxide

I am currently working on a new Accurail MILW Double Door 40 foot car and it occurred to me that somewhere I had read that they used the Royal Brake Regulator cylinders and levers. I checked all on ha

I picked up the term "foobie" from Tony's blog as meaning a stand in that will just have to do until I find the right parts at a reasonable cost to reasonably accurately model the prototype or I can a

PFE was responsible for maintenance motors and fan belts in 1971-72. I worked the PFE payables desk during that period and processed many payments to outside vendors for rewinding burned out motors an

The Passenger Car List has a pdf in their files section with nice new list of available passenger car trucks which shows a picture of the prototype in the left column and the pictures of available mod

Fascinating views of a very interesting special movement. It would be interesting to know the full routing and the work by the shipper, consignee and the carriers involved to put together and modify t

It has never been my intent to sound unappreciative of Ted Culotta, Ryan Mendell and Hunter Hughson's efforts in creating and maintaining the entire Hindsight 2020 (now 2021?) program to replace real

Looks like it must be full....I registered but got no confirmation.

Ordering this and a lot of other stuff from Pierre. But not going to complete order for shipping until the USPS can recover from the current disaster condition. i have two train related order now so c

As an retired DBA using DB2, Oracle, Object Oriented and SQL Server professionally for over 30 years, I would recommend a workbook type program such as Microsoft Excel or Open Office Calc and designin

Steve et al Which SC&F kit was the Standard Tank Car kit. This tank car manufacturer appears to have been used by a lot of west coast refiners in the 1920's and has been ignored by Tangent and others