I get my .....homishes mixed up. You are correct. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

Around 2008 I was invited to look at the Snohomish hydro power plant. Built around the turn of the century with a penstock tunneled into the bedrock adjacent to the Snohomish Falls. The power turbines

Hello- I have another enhancement kit being offered for sale. I have come upon several left over resin castings of a WP Pullman Co built 50' auto boxcar with pre-war Youngstown doors. Model Die Castin

If what I am seeing is what you have commented on, then we are both looking at an early Dreadnaught stamped steel end which used "indented" (or inverted; I have heard both terms used in describing thi

Hello- I am offering for purchase 5 HO Intermountain RTR Northern Pacific black coal hoppers. IM #47152 47152-01 NP 70203; 47152-02 NP 70222; 47152-03 NP 70259; 47152-04 NP 70304; 47152-06 NP 70386. P

My now gone friend Jack Parker, who lived and breathed the Northern Pacific RR, detailed an O scale A5 NP brass Northern 4-8-4 back in the 1990s. He made the boiler running boards as exact as can be u

I found some pictures today which added to my understandings of the D&RGW fleet of 12 panel riveted steel box cars. A class in the 68xxx series were built pre-war and had inside height of 10'4" and ha

Hello- Two years ago I was inspired from a post by Bill Welch. I answered with a short description of the various Youngstown doors. I was asked for photos and today I added illustrations of the common

Hi Lester- On the Steam Era Freight Car Web Site (different from this io group) Ed Hawkins has data for almost all post war AAR 40' box cars and has data for these cars, but I can say that the Santa F

Lacking a freight car (my apologies) though a wooden head end car, here is another SP&S RS 2 #64 in Indiana. Taken in 1966. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

Hello- I have a new, in never been removed from mint packaging condition, Intermountain Great Northern HO 1958 cu ft covered hopper, GN #71025; IM # 48603-02. This car has the version of triangular op

I wish to be clear--I do not think that old-school 3D mold making is better than CNC. I am simply saying that 3D mold making has made some great model parts and has no need to be viewed as not worthy

I know that a good CNC program is certainly capable of superior work and is done so all the time, but I challenge anyone to find a better HO improved Dreadnaught end than the HO casting I sent a pictu

Hi Mark- I am not a tool maker and have never played one on TV (Ha HA). Most of what I know is just from listening to actual toolmakers talk. I have had a fair amount of resin casting experiences and

Hello- Pictured is a tooling resin 1/12 scale PC&F R-40-23 Refrigerator car Dreadnaught end. This is a classic example of an old-school method of tool making. An individual rib is carefully shaped and

Brian, I have a very useful technique for plugging holes on styrene bodies. 1st step is to place a stretched piece of scotch tape over the hole's opening. 2nd is to use Ace Hardware 2-ton epoxy and fi

I offered HO WP 40' SS resin box car kits 20+ years ago and I was selling as many as I received orders for. I doubt that I sold more that 30 kits. I even sold far fewer of the 40' stock cars which the

The two R-40-10 double herald reefers are sold. The single herald "Overland" as delivered reefer remains available. Thanks, -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

If accuracy is wanted, I have 2 Intermountain HO Pacific Fruit Express reefer kits for R-40-10 steel ice bunker refrigerator cars. IM # 41702P-35 PFE Double Herald car with Union Pacific colored heral

Thanks everyone! The reefer kits are sold. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA