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

It appears not all issues are in the wp-content folder.

Thanks Gary for pointing that out. I missed it in spite of several reads of the article. This is the Accurail gondola body in the Tamiya Red Oxide Primer. Perhaps it could qualify as a "fairly bright

Tim O'Conner et all This was found on a search the files for STMFC. I am in the process of enhancing an Accurail AAR 41 foot gondola into a reasonable facsimile of a CNW 130701-131600 1948 build car b

I found the Olfa KB4-5 are much better chisel blades for shaving off unwanted details such as cast grab irons than Xacto #17. But I still need very narrow chisel blade for removing other details.

Warming to the idea of having to wait for a RCW reissue of the Sunshine kit. Unless someone makes the 7-3-7 ends and they are easily available. Don't think I could cut and repiece the Tichy 5-5-5 end

All Southern Pacific owned tank cars such as the 12,500 gal. O-50-13 class built in 1941, were classified as "O" type freight cars. The O stood for oil. In 1950 the SP had the 10th largest tank car fl

Andrews trucks still in service too.

With my peculiar attachment to DD 40 foot auto/box cars, this would be an interesting project. I have just received the Yarmouth D&RGW 40 foot DD box car and it is now in the TBB queue. I found EFC #5

I always interpreted the movie line to mean get a job in the plastics industry...If I remember correctly Dustin Hoffman was literally underwater when it was delivered at a party thrown by his parents