I have had success with the old idea of using a magic marker/Sharpie, etc., to color the back of the decal sheet for white lettering. This makes it easy to see the decal so you can cut it out without

Try precision Scale Co. in Montana. In the Walthers catalog it's about half the price of Shinoha Bill Williams

Very interesting. i thought I'd check on the possible publicatiuon of your FGE/WFE/BRE book. Bill Williams

That car may have been built in 1941 but the 1943 ORER shows only tank cars under US War Department. Also, USAX was a post WWII reporting mark, which replaced the USQX on the WWII tank cars. I would t

It was my original post. I bought the green GM&N car at a SER convention in Mobile. it was the convention car, designed by a GM&O modeler, Jim Blanchard, which I thought made it correct. Bill Williams

A friend of mine has a GM&N double sheathed (Athearn) boxcar painted lime green with a brown door, #20141. I am trying to learn if this is legitimate. It was a SER Region convention car run by a GM&O

Any word on when this book will be coming out? Karen's books also still has no word on the merchant's Dispatch book. Any word on that one. Bill Williams

, the decals are remaining stock on hand from the shake n take projects,

I just saw in the MRH on-line mag that 5th Avenue was going to make decals for the DT&I gon and the NADX Hormel reefer. They don't list an e-mail or regular phone line on their site. Can anybody provi

I have been getting an answer machine at Speedwitch for over two weeks. My e-mails go unanswered. A friend and I are trying to buy copies of Richard's book. Can anybody tell me why Ted Culotta is not

Dear Shay The following is from an answer provided to me from Richard Hendrickson a while back. "All the photos I've seen of the black cars with white billboard lettering date from the late 1950s and

I have some Intermountain WWII era reefers, 90,000-90999 class, which are orange. Accurail has a new ad out for a three pack in the same number series in yellow. Can anybody tell me which is correct,

I attended the 1990 Pittsburg convention. I remember seeing Richard walking with GN guru Staffan Einhbom (sp?) who I knew, wearing mineral brown shirts that said "Freight Car Mafia" on them. Impressiv

Bill Williams

Keep in mind that real wheel sets did not have pointed axle ends like our models. Thus a gon load or engine facility scene will not look prototypical. Bill Williams

one shot that shows a yellow OB box car with the "jar" painted on the door. I'm not sure what it was called but, I'm sure that type car has been talked about on this site. > That was Muncie & Western

Assuming an adequate number of workers, about how long would it have taken to load a 40' ice reefer with produce using those slat & wire boxes? Also, for operational planning, how long after a reefer

extra layer of jeeps for WWII. How many jeeps could an X-31f hold? Bill Williams

be town long, the be a were I have read of these boxcar coal shipments which were mostly due to avoid the coal freezing in the open hoppers, which made them very hard to unload. Just how much coal wou

wrote: Also freshly creosoted ties. Bill Williams Bush, LA