The car on the photograph has AB brakes. You can clearly see the transversal mounted reservoir on the photograph with the 3-1-48 brake service stencil. This type of mounting was common practice on San

A good friend wants to modernize his Sunshine kits # 25.1/2/3 and put Apex Trilock running boards on his R-70-2 reefers. He asked me to provide him with custom photo-etched RBs with accurate spacing t

I am looking for guidance because I'd much rather use dry transfer chalk marks than decals. Though my car sides have a fresh flat Dullcote finish I cannot get my Clover House chalk marks to stick to??

I am very uncertain about the appropriate color for my PRR freight car kits and for the color patches underneath reweigh and repacking stencils applied in PRR shops. Several members of this group cont

I would like to airbrush Dullcote from the glass bottle. How much thinner should I add? Peter Aue

Michael, you may also also take a good look at the ends of the side sills and the sill steps. You'll need to cut off a piece of the side sill and replace the sill steps with more appropriate ones. I'v

Since my name was mentioned several times, I feel I need to speak up. My recommendation for photo-etching: Do the design and the artwork yourself and find a qualified supplier to do the etching for yo

I own a pair of these "Pattern No. 15A tweezers" sold by Otto Frey. They are made by Dumont, a Swiss company who makes exceptional quality tweezers. Dumont claims that 15As are made for cutting miniat

I have been missing one important aspect in this discussion, the stencil cutting process in the paint shops. Paint shops received drawings for lettering and avertising slogans and in most cases they n

I don't have a shear but I can get you photo-etched strips with different widths with zero twist from shearing. Please contact me off-line. Peter Aue

Looking through my collection of Railway Prototype Cyclopedias I've run into reweigh station symbols which I cannot identfy. My reference is the list generated by Richard and several other contributor

The holes in the hatch stops are designed for .0125" diameter wire and # 80 drill bits. The mounting pins of the sill steps comfortably fit into the holes in the InterMountain underframe. If you need

Ed, Photo-etched hatch stops are included in the Yarmouth YMW-215 fret for SFRD reefers. Peter Aue

I want to paint the sides of a Great Northern plywood boxcar with Omaha Orange. Which is the appropriate Trucolor paint for that application. Peter Aue

Thank you Tim. I was looking for the 50 ton trucks for my Westerfield Bx-12 and Bx-13 kits. Peter Aue

What is the best stand-in for HO scale Dalman-1 level trucks. I know some time ago Richard responded to the same question but unfortuntely I cannot find that post. Peter Aue

NYC and P&LE purchased more than 10,000 52'-6" Greenville Design Gondolas, far more than all other railroads combined and ordered their cars with ladders instead of grab irons on the car sides. Unfort

I find it quite disappointing that subject is again turning into a lengthy copyright debate instead of focusing on the technical and logistical issues involved in printing custom decals in small quant

I keep reading all these posts about the availability of decals and maybe I can help. I've been working for several years with a small company who is using a Roland Versacamm professional inkjet print

I recently generated decal artwork for the post 1947 Santa Fe name train slogans and initially I used the drawings in the Santa Fe System Standards books for reference. After I had finished the first