Aha, now I understand why parts of this thread didn't make sense. The header of this thread, and the D202 decal, both show 53'-6". Now, being a Kansas modeler, I could have expected loads to come in o

I did one, right when the Roundhouse kit first came out, as an MP 86000-86149 car. The model has wire grabs and separate ladders. I really don't remember carving this detail off the model. Was it ever

If anyone has a spare Sunshine 39.4, SLSF 161500 single-sheathed steel-sided car kit, I'd be interested. Please respond to: mopacfirst at gmail dot com (that's not the address that groups.io thinks I

Not about the decals, but it looks like they learned from Pennsy about the layout of weight and dimensional data. Just got done with three PRR cars, X26C, X29B and X29D, used Microscale decals. Not on

Thanks. Never thought to look at F&C website. And the Kinkaid collection is slowly starting to show up in my brain as another place on the web that I should probably check first. You're right about th

I'm building an F&C mill gon, specifically the one with McKeesport Connecting decals, although the kit instructions note that Union and other US Steel roads had identical cars. The brake gear arrangem

I'm not from there, but isn't this a picture of an elevated line (Atlantic Avenue?) being demolished? Wasn't it handy that there was a track directly below it? Ron Merrick from a place that has no ele

I have an original Sunshine kit, one of the U series, which came with a CB&T body. I have a few Branchline undecs which I would use instead. The kit is not where I am, so I can't look at it. Anything

I've always used weathered rail, and I'm still laying it on Central Valley tie strip. I haven't applied paint to hardly any rail, so I can't answer the question directly, but the weathered rail has be

OK, got it. I think there's a summary of the dates of adoption of those paint schemes on line, but what I was more interested in is whether there was an effort to repaint as many cars as possible, or

For the X26C and the X29B/X29D, in the late 50s timeframe, what would the most common lettering scheme be? I know what they were built with. As 10 to 14 year old cars, were many of them repainted alre

Brian: Thanks, that tells me what I need to know. I think I'll use the lateral motion trucks then. Papa Ben's in Houston has kept me in trucks for quite a while now. Ron Merrick

I'm building some stock cars, but other cars might have this issue, say refrigerator cars. How common were 40-ton trucks with lateral motion? I'm thinking of the HO Tahoe 214 vs. 215 (equipped with la

A possible candidate for the MP Lines car is the 68001-70500 series, AC&F 1916, lot 8217, with 36' IL, height to top of side 9'-5" (relatively tall, to give it a cuft of 1738), archbar trucks. The dia

Maybe because those two are both 'do not hump'? That WECX car, built 1-61, is what we would now call a Schnabel car. Was this terminology used then, or called something else in English at that time? S

At the MoPac Wichita yard, one track was removed and the adjacent tracks re-leveled to slope toward each other. There was a dedicated MoPac garbage truck to collect whatever was cleaned out of the car

Hope somebody will humor me, but I'm interested in the X40 cars despite the fact that I'll never build a model of one, one reason being that I doubt that one of them ever visited my obscure secondary

With Crown trucks. Ron Merrick

I have not tried them, but the only DA part that I really need on a regular basis other than eye bolts (which are made by quite a few manufacturers) is the coupler cut lever. Tangent's are good, but I

There was a small ice house at the south end of the platforms, beyond the express facility, at Wichita Union Station. It was probably there for the purpose of icing passenger cars as needed. There was