Has anyone built this car? What are your thoughts about it? The markings offered for this car would any of them fit in a 30's era train ? Doug Kinder Yes Doug, I'm building one at present. It's a bit

I weight my cars in line with the NMRA RP. Track and wheels have certainly improve since the RP was established, but as the RP exists, I see no good reason to mess with it and I find the weight helps

Both Alexander and Stewart are now owned by Tomar, and Stewart has a few HO loads, including the propellers, listed on their website Cheers Dave North http://www.tomarindustries.com/sp.htm

I have a sand blasting cabinet that I use with my auto restoration. Can I use that to blast HO freight cars? Would I have to change the sand out to what you guys use? I have heard of grit blasting but

Hi Tim, If you want an even gentler abrasive for that fine partial removal, try Bicarbonate Soda aka Baking Soda. And you can do the blasting outside, which gives you a better view of the work than th

<Now I question what cars were <used in the grain business from 1942 to 1954. Off line covered hoppers appear <to be the right idea; eg: SP, GN, UP, and midwest RR's. Anyone care to <enlighten me, and

Hi all ....I just obtained a Overland 100 ton brass gondola.....The box says #70000-70031, but I can't find it in any of the SF books.....Can anyone tell me what class it is or where there are pics of

Athearn didn't say they weren't going to produce these models any longer. They said the KITS were no longer going to be produced. Their RTR line will, I'm sure continue, using the same tooling that th

This was discussed just a week or so ago. Sunshine did a mini kit M.1 some years ago to produce GA-21 and GA-43 using Stewart 3 bay hoppers as a starting point. You could also do a 4 bay GA-24 convert

Would anyone have or know where I can find, photos and/or folio diagrams of the following Santa Fe 2, 3 & 4 bay hoppers that were fitted with roofs in 1945. I have some pics from the Santa Fe Open Top

Thanks Robert. I'm grateful for the heads-up. I have that MM. Steven, I was only going to use the CV roof as the core for hopper roof as it is moulded with the curve. Now that Robert has pointed me to

Thanks to everyone for their info on the hopper car roofs. I didn't realise they were still available. I saw them on the list as a Gift and though some of you may non-ATSF types may have them tucked a

Sorry everyone, I forgot to change the subject line in my previous post. By coincidence, I'm looking for some of the roofs for ATSF hopper cars that Bob was asking about cheers Dave Hi, I'm looking fo

Hi, I'm looking for 2 or 3 sets of Sunshine kit M1 MINI. These were 2 ATSF covered hopper roofs & parts for conversion of Stewart 3-bay hoppers to ATSF grain cars. The Sunshine catalog says these were

<The good news is that both the Canton Tank Car Co. and Globe Oil cars <are based on prototype photos. The bad news is that both companies <were absorbed by others well before 1953 so the prototypes w

IM lists an 8K tank car stencilled for Canton Tank Car Co and another for Globe Oil. Are there prototypes for these models and while I gather Globe Oil was an oil producer or distributor, what did Can

Would this work? <http://www.micromark.com/MINIATURE-GEAR-AND-WHEEL-PULLER-9and32--9and16-CAP ACITY,8011.html> http://www.micromark.com/MINIATURE-GEAR-AND-WHEEL-PULLER-9and32--9and16-CAPA CITY,8011.ht

Hi Justin, If I can help turn something for you to sit over the needle point, so you can press on it, let me know. I have a lathe so that type of job becomes quite easy Cheers Dave North Sydney

Would someone be kind enough to provide the ORER data for Columbian Carbon CCX #218-307, please. This group of cars should be listed in ORERs from 1948 - 1956, and maybe others. I want to make decals

Thanks Steve, I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I have that book. Looks like time for a re-read (lol) Cheers Dave North