Thanks all, this confirms what I had understood, that there is no separate 40’ ZU overhanging roof offered as a commercial part. Given my need for multiples of this to complete some GN projects, is th

Rich, What are the options for the overhanging diagonal panel roof? This seems to be one of those “missing” detail parts, for GN modelers in particular.

Super helpful, thank you!

Tim I am not an authority on trucks, they are described as “ 3D printed resin Vulcan outside clasp 70 ton trucks”. Here’s a zoomed in shot from one of his eBay pictures.

Corey Bonsall has been making and selling HO scale 3D printed trucks to go with his 3D printed D&RGW gondolas, which he has sold on eBay for at least four years now. There should be some good operatin

Tim Thanks for posting those woodchip Gon photos. I’m very curious about the MILW model as I have been trying to find both prototype info and a good model to start with. Would you have any more inform

Bob, thanks for sharing, cool car. Do you know where it is located? Ocean Spray has a manufacturing plant in Markham, near Aberdeen, on the Washington state coast. I presume they once shipped by rail,

Ken In looking at the SP&S Color Guide, it appears that revenue flat cars, including this series, were black. Flats in MOW service were boxcar red.

Rob Good catch, definitely three main outlets, nearest one uncapped, plus smaller pipes with retained caps as well, possibly for heater pipes?

It is well known in entomologist circles that the digestive juices excreted by crickets, locusts etc. would be highly corrosive to the cellulose in wood timbers. At small scale this would not be nearl

Brian There is an excellent book out in the Pacific Coast Railroad, (the one that operated in Washington). It is called Seattle’s Own Railroad, and was recently available to purchase from several sour

Intermountain is taking reservations for theirs in several schemes, and Accurail has announced a few kits recently (from the former Ribside Car tooling). Not sure of anyone else doing them in HO.

I like your car weights Clark, are those lead castings of whale teeth?

One additional note about the original photo: it shows what looks like a boiler house, with the tall smokestack. The material stored behind that building between low walls may be hog fuel (wood waste

Fenton Outstanding models as always, Fenton. Thank you for sharing your work. I’m looking at my stash of CB&T, McKean and Front Range kits with new eyes! I missed out on many of the Sunshine kits so i

Ken i picked up a couple of those DA detail kits for very little at a swap meet a few years ago, probably because they were for out of production kits. A cheap way to get their excellent AB brake set,

Those lumber stacks look like they could be plywood veneer. They look like sheets or panels rather than individual boards and there appear to be spacers to allow drying. One would expect those to ship

I just found my copy of a September 2004 RMJ article that Richard Hendrickson wrote about the 6000 gallon pressure tank cars used for chlorine and in there he states that the orange and black scheme a

Here’s a post from Ed Hawkins on this list that I kept, regarding painting of ACF built Hooker tanks. Unfortunately I lost the date reference: From AC&F bill of materials data, I provide the following

That’s interesting Tony, I’ve been looking for a good timeline on the changes with Hooker paint history. My information is mostly from photos. Curious, does the photo you reference have the block lett