I have a couple of the Nickel Plate Products brass ones that I will redetail with Bowser parts. The floor casting fits nicely, and the doors are better as well. Randy

Although I generally agree with the Gilbert-Nelson approach, along with Bruce Smith’s percentages, they are very dependent upon the road you model. Bruce models the PRR, so 75% home road hoppers on an

They were almost certainly FGEX consortium cars, whose truss rod cars ran into the 50s. In 1948 they comprised almost 12% of FGEX, more than 41% of WFEX, and over 10% of BREX, or more than 21% of thei

Some of us are more OCD than others. I agree in terms of it improving your modeling, other than using consistent terms helps ensure we are talking about the same thing. But part of being a prototype m

Like so many things, the timeframe varied on different roads. For example, the Steam Era ended on the New Haven in 1952. I know in the era I’m modeling (1946-54) the NH still handles a lot of LCL traf

Yes, the cars with Deco Ends have been confirmed for production for some time, as noted on their page: https://www.intermountain-railway.com/newshocomingsoon.html Randy

While the paint schemes are accurate for the most part (I haven’t been able to verify UTLX), they have started to use some road numbers I couldn’t verify. I only have a few photos and some as-built in

I’m making an operational scale model of the New Haven railroad in New Britain, CT following WWII. It usually goes into a bit of discussion about how different New Britain was before the RT 9 and espe

So we're less than a month from the New England Prototype meet. As I often do, I'm opening my layout on Thursday, May 30 for a casual ops session. I'm in the midst of some changes on the layout, but m

The Improved Dreadnaught End was a trademarked design by Standard Railway Equipment Manufacturing Co (SREM). Randy -- Randy Hammill Modeling the New Haven Railroad 1946-1954 http://newbritainstation.c

In regards to the terminology, best I can tell the 10’6” IH was added as an optional standard in 1941, and didn’t change again until 1947 when the 10’0” IH was removed from the standard. What we often

All gone. But, when I pulled them out I realized I had the Trout Creek Engineering ones which, if I recall correctly, are the same ones. I think they purchased their line. In any event, you can get th

The Taurus ones are very nice, but extremely soft and bend way too easily. I probably have a bunch I’ll never use of anybody wants some. Old and Weary Car shops made similar ones for their caboose kit

Yeah, there's a siding on the maps in New Britain that's either for New Britain Water Works, or in later years, City of New Britain storeyard. Unfortunately, it didn't quite fit on the layout. It make

Oh, that's right. They are similar, but have a different dome/bonnet and they are jacketed. Darn. Well, I'll still find something to do with these cars, and I'll have to beg Frank to run some more! Th

I have several undecorated BLI tank cars. I haven't seen a roster of the cars as-built, but I know that I need acid tank cars that would deliver the Stanley Works and other major hardware companies in

There’s one on the NMRA site: www.olimpia.com:8084/magazine-index.html Randy

It also appears the the far left panel no longer has the diagonal strap, while the far right one still does. I wonder if it has two different ends. Randy

Hi, Scott The “Spans the World” scheme was introduced in 1947, but I don’t recall it being used in reefers. I set up a page for the schemes of CN and CP at TLT (http://www.truelinetrains.ca/freight-ca

I second that. Always looking for new parts... Randy -- Randy Hammill Modeling the New Haven Railroad 1946-1954 http://newbritainstation.com | http://blog.newbritainstation.com