MYTH: "Accupaint is actually a variety of ink". Answer--Accupaint is a lacquer and years ago the myth that the product is an ink started. It simply is not true. I spread this rumor also before being i

Bruce- You may be suffering from the volitiles gassing off right past the lid (Tru-Coloe and AccuPaint use plastic bottles with often porely sealing lids. A real problem with AccuPaint over the years.

Hello- With my intent years ago to model thin 2-sided Youngstown Steel Doors in HO I gave it a try last week. This is my first casting with this thin molded YSD. This photo is of the back side of an H

Baby boomers of my age have a special understanding of the letter 'M'. My selection is the Monon with their funky gondola. Half way there! Enjoy, -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

I have a model RR friend who lives in the home town of the IT. So this is my pick for "I". Enjoy it as much as I do. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

This RR was home based on the spit separating North Humbold Bay, CA from the Pacific Ocean. The roundhouse and some other structures survive to this day and a young museum group is being quite active.

Folks that know me are probably guessing I would do Great Northern for the letter 'G'. surprise-surprise! (Thank you, Gomer!) Again, no thank you is needed. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

Whew! Almost nothing to offer in the letter 'F' department. Good old FEC pulls through. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

Boy, I am sure glad that my new niche is paying off so well. Again, no need to thank me for this labor of love. A Erie flat car. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

I sure hope my sources don't dry up because this is fun! Again, no thanks are necessary. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

More in my ever increasing efforts to supply the list with content. enjoy! -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

Allow me to join onto this upcoming trend. B&O #17000. A mostly steel box car. Please, no need to thank me, I do it for love. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

Thanks Todd- Yes, that is the name I (now) remember. It isn't as nicely done as the later P2K 52' gondola, but still a well received car from me back then. A P2K gondola would have finer posts and mak

These WP cars were re-fitted twice. Early in the 1970s also. I had a difficult time finding pictures of the interior when I made my 1st kitbash WP 20' Coil Gondola and I had to guess the rivet pattern

Even with its very low mounted bottom door track the Yougstown door still is a 5/6/5-Short. Along with the ends, the color scheme makes for an interesting, well-travelled Eastern box car. -Andy Carlso

A rather simple kit bash from a P2K 52" Greenville gondola. Made in 1953 and came new with roller bearing trucks. Like others mentioned, since this was in direct service on the WP (straying off the WP

I have a friendship started at a Naperville decades ago. A good modeler, Ron also is very helpful to the local Montecello Illinois railroad museum. When Ron was told about a pair of tank cars at a loc

Hi; already we have had the the universal opinion of yes for the use of primer on resin before a Tru-Color coat. Decades ago, I tried my 1st (and last) attempt to paint AccuPaint on an un-primered res

Maybe on the central Vermont with lots of CN stuff. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

Boy, this is embarrassing! I quickly responded to the D&LW car question and made my reply directed instead at the EJ&E car (which is a 10'0" car) by error. The Lackawanna car is certainly a 10'6" car.