Richard: By 1955 there would have been only one class of Virginian 12 panel gondolas, class G-1A (Bobs Photo): There were also very similar looking class G-6 high side gondolas, but these had an extra

Do you have a date that the four wheel cabooses were outlawed? With others freight cars there was a date when cars weren’t accepted in interchange, for instance K brakes, but since cabooses weren’t ge

I make my own putty by dissolving leftover styrene sprues in n-Butyl Acetate (Tamiya extra thin cement is 50% Acetone 50% n-Butyl Acetate). You can also use MEK to dissolve but it dries a little faste

Solvaset was 40% Glycol Ether PM 60% water.

Okay, I have a little more information about these cars, thanks to those who helped! I have learned that SAL 12265 and RF&P 1024 were boxcars, not flat cars,. The Virginian Railway acquired these cars

I’m looking for some information about three flat cars and hoping someone might have a diagram and possibly a picture of a sister car in the same class for: Seaboard Air Line 12265 Richmond, Frederick

The answer is simple. They’re Athearn boxcars. The top, sides, and ends are one piece, they lift that piece off the underframe, the load is removed, and the body piece is replaced. Done!

Thanks, but as mentioned not my best effort. I could have done better at cutting and fitting the MDC Roundhouse ballast chutes. The inside shows more faults. Figure some ballast will solve some of tha

I’d like a B-1b. Contact me off line at summers1218@... please.

In 1940, The Virginian Railway bought ten 40’ flat cars from the CB&Q. I believe they were built by ACF in 1907. I know it is not a lot to go on but might there be any CB&Q types that would be able to

A little more background on Phenol. I worked with Phenol years ago at Essex Magnet Wire. It’s a dangerous chemical causing burns and is absorbed through the skin, and exposure to a lot can be fatal. T

Interesting passenger car in the foreground.

I agree, the old Kadde truck springs look poor. Kadee makes a HGC (high gravity compound) version of this truck where the springs are solid, # 571 or 1571 with the semi scale wheels. They look much be

I’m going back to the brass ‘manuta’ gon model picture.

The brass model is more like the ACL phosphate car that Ambroid made a model of in their one-in-5000 kit line in the late 1950’s-early 1960’s:

The tanks are US M3 Lee tanks. They were built late 1941 to the end of 1942. They began to be replaced by the better M4 Sherman tanks (a lot were sold to the British). The Lee was not a very good tank

Nice picture. Note the Andrews U section trucks with a snubber in place of one of the springs on each truck.

I’ll jump into this and hopefully not add to any confusion but there is another reason for not listing the car weight on tank cars back then. Only the largest manufacturers or customers had a scale to

No, that was Methyl Isocyanate in Bophal. Nevertheless Hydrogen Cyanide is nasty.

Or could it be the cars are the same and each car only had the one bulkhead end? Not sure why only one end but otherwise the cars and tanks do appear Similar.