I have tried with smartphone camera and this all I get This new decal paper is a problem....

Thanks Al. PRR apparently used a unique system of a location number with a P prefix to identify reweigh stations. Other RR's usually used a location abbreviation. How often would an older PRR boxcar (

Like many of you I too have received one of the excellent Rapido X31a box cars. The only modification needed is to change the reweigh date to a period within 48 months prior to the end of 1950-54 peri

Just remember that M-60 tanks and M-113 Armored Personnel Carriers are post steam era 1960's and later stuff. They don't belong on this steam era group. Before the 1960's the US infantry traveled in 2

I have taken to wearing a thick glove on my left hand (I am right handed) when slicing off plastic cast on detail. Too many slips and a run for the band-aid box. Also look beyond the Exacto blades to

Bob, There were car distribution clerks (large numbers of them at major yards) whose job was to track and locate available empty cars to fill agents/shippers requests according to car service rules an

It was $5.00 on the used shelf at my LHS and I have a weakness for 40' DD box cars. This one is lettered for D&RGW 65192 Model RC-8513-c. It was minimally partially built. There was a long trail of me

I started my A-50-4 kit sometime before the pandemic. Frustrated by the grab iron drilling. Will have to look at it again. In my early 1950's freight car collection, it would probably have been in lum

The Delano photos are a terrific source for the effect of time, dirt and soot on the roof a box car (or any house car) in the coal burning era. That and the variety of weathering and repair of running

The Army depot at Hawthorne, Nevada is still in use as is the Military's Sealift Command terminal at Port Chicago in the inland reaches of San Francisco Bay. Both are rail served. Mandatory Steam Era

Thank you very much...

I just used the same Pledge product Eric refers to above. https://www.pledge.com/en-us/products/pledge-floor-gloss Works fine. I brush it on only the areas to be decaled. After the Micro Sol/Micro Set

Just an observation on the positioning bend of the hand rails on the lateral running boards in the pictures. Most appear to be at least one full board in from the edge of the car roof. Was there an MC

These photos of car roofs remind us of the prevalence of soot from coal burning in the steam and transition eras. Rain apparently didn't wash much off. Reduced maintenance in the depression era and th

Just an note for those of you who like to use acrylics instead of more toxic solvent based paints. I just reverified with new color tests (for test, brushed not sprayed) that Vallejo 70.814 Burnt Red

"Tru-Color says this is for 1945-1960. How would the pre-1945 color differ?" The chemical composition of paint changed after WW2 as synthetics increased durability. Ken Adams Still in splendid Shelter

Was there any mention of the kit version? I ordered the kits almost 5 years ago and they were still listed on the IM website as coming. SP had a large number of the ACF built hoppers (used for cement

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