Elden, Thanks for sending these. I haven’t seen these before. Rich Remiarz Sent from Mail for Windows 10

I just finished assembling a Sunshine O-59A gondola. Next up is the paint shop. Thank you Ed a Hawkins for the article in RPC volume 23 on the Bethlehem gondolas. The instructions only had a single sm

Thanks Andy, Bill and Ted for the information. Fortunately I kept all of my old Mainline Modeler issues. Looks like I need to send an order to Ted. The decals in the kit didn’t look very sharp. Sincer

I just started building a Funaro & Camerlengo C&O 1930 automobile boxcar kit. In looking through my reference materials, I have found almost no information on these cars. I thought I remembered an art

Elliot, I just found the instructions for the Sunshine kit, and now understand what you are referring to. Neither the instructions for the Speedwitch kit or Ted Culotta’s article on the cars showed th

Attached are photos of a KCS Interim AAR boxcar I just completed. It was built from a Speedwitch kit. The flat finish dried less than 2 hours before packing the car and bringing it to the Twin Cities

Elliot, I used Campbell Scale Models chain, which is 42 links per inch. I used 1x6 styrene for the brake levers, and 0.012 wire with clevises made from Grandt Line turnbuckles for the brake rods. Rich

Greetings, I completed Soo Line 133542 last night, just in time for this weekend's Twin Cities Railroad Modeler's Retreat. It is a Speedwitch K108 Soo Line Sawtooth Single Sheathed Box Car kit, painte

George, I used Tru Color TCP 214 GN freight car red over a primer coat of Tamaya Fine Surface Primer. The Tru Color paint holds much better with a primer on resin. I had problems with paint coming off

Thanks Bill. My first resin build many many years ago was a single door version. It was the original Westerfield hard, brittle resin castings. I had to glue some of the parts back together when they s

After spending most of my time the last couple of years building structures, adding scenery, and weathering/upgrading some RTR freight cars, I have finally had some time to start building resin kits a

Joe Binish asked me to forward this to the list. He is having some technical issues. Sincerely, Rich Remiarz Begin forwarded message:

The 10 CFM flow rate is far too low for a safe paint spray booth. It isn't the volume of the booth that matters, it is the size of the opening at the front. Typically industrial or scientific fume hoo

Sorry, I accidently hit the send key before finishing editing the email and completing the signature block. Bob, I believe the paint scheme is too new for your era. The ends and roof are too old for a

The paint scheme appears to be too new for your era. The ends and roof are too old for a new date in 1956. For 1956 there should be a diagonal panel roof and the latest Post-war dreadnaught ends. To t

Clark, I sent you the wrong reference on the RPCYC. The article I referred to was on the plywood cars and not the woodsheathed cars. Rich Remiarz Vadnais Heights, MN To: stmfc@... From: rr

Clark, You are probably thinking of one of these two articles: Essential Freight Cars 2: Great Northern's 1937 Double-Sheathed Boxcars - Ted Culotta - RMC May 2003 Emergency Composite Boxcars - Patric

Clark, The GN car is a 10' wood sheathed boxcar. These can be modeled with the Sunshine kit. They were the most common type of boxcar on the GN in the 50's (and into the 60's), with 6791 on the roster

In mid-1956 the GN still had 62 truss rod boxcars in the 9000-9999 series in service and 13 boxcars in the 28000-28499 series. Rich Remiarz Vadnais Heights, MN

Bill, What are you doing for decals on the IC car? I am also workng on a model of the car based on a Red Caboose kit. Champ had a decal set, but it was discontinued some time again (before they shut d