Either. I’ve seen pictures of five replacement doors, Creco, Youngstown, Superior, plus a Youngstown and a carbuilder (that looks similar to Creco), both with a weld line in the center because they we

I did a quick post covering prototype roster info c1950 for the cars: https://blog.newbritainstation.com/2021/06/usra-single-sheathed-box-cars.html?m=1 I’ve ordered mine! Randy

I’ve been using Styrene Tack-it II https://www.amazon.com/Tenax-Styrene-II-Single-Ounce-Bottles/dp/B07NCC2FDG/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=styrene+tack-it+ii&qid=1622995629&sprefix=styrene+tack&sr

I use Aleene’s for a lot. Gluing down my track, for example. It is a bit flexible when dried, I use it for gluing etched running boards on plastic models. Randy

Yes, I know why they have the extra rivets, just didn't know if there was an industry term. The 1943 CBC has a notation of a photo of 187085, noted as, "light weight construction." It also has another

I don’t know the answer to that, but a I do wonder where the term ACR came from. Was it an industry term or something coined by modelers/historians? I suppose I should go digging through CBCs when I g

Yes. It was Darren’s company, and I am/was “the other guy.” Randy

Would the photo we used to produce the TLT model be sufficient? Incidentally, I found a photo of the lumber door in Dave Peters' collection after we produced the tooling: Randy

For more general info, I did a post on the NH gondolas recently. https://blog.newbritainstation.com/2021/03/nh-ga-4-60508-with-buoy-load.html?m=1 Randy

Fantastic info! Any more loads to CT on the other pages? Thanks for sharing. Randy

Even nowadays they make mistakes. I went for a ride-along on the CNZR, and the crew told me that Pan Am had picked up the wrong cut of cars a couple of days ago, they were supposed to be picked up by

Hi, Sam- To verify, CRP 10001-10500 AAR Standard hoppers match the black Kadee hopper model with Wine door locks. At some point they may have been relettered CNJ. Thanks! Randy

Great to hear Sam! While you look at that, you have also never done the CNJ/CRP scheme on the hoppers. It’s the correct version of that hopper, I can dig up road numbers from RPCyc later if that helps

Except I think that he was using the term long before fake boobies became a common enough thing to spawn the word. Note that the urban dictionary shows a whole bunch of definitions, and that one isn’t

I have a couple of recent blog posts of some interesting freight cars photos on the New Haven. There will be more over the next few weeks. Transformer Cars: https://blog.newbritainstation.com/2021/01/

EBay is changing their setup for sellers, and eventually everybody will be required to use their managed payments instead of PayPal or other options. Buyers will be able to use PayPal as one of their

Sure they did: https://www.tangentscalemodels.com/general-american-10000-gallon-1917-design-radial-course-tank-car/ Randy

The NH cars were 41' drop-bottom gondolas. Any idea where the sand was shipped from? I highly doubt it was loaded on the NH. There are no loads of sand shipping from CT in the 1950-1954 1% waybill stu

Well, that was pretty much our intent with our proposed Bx-11/12/13, etc. project. And Rapido pretty consistently releases many road specific details for their locomotives, so I don’t think it’s unrea

I would guess Rapido would know. Have you checked with them? They have email and are on Facebook too. Bill Schneider might see this and reply too. It is a hand-finished pre-production sample, and depe