Rob, a nice kit for these cars is available from F&C.

Yes. I found 2 photos of the cars you asked about - 14781 & 14001 - with black diamonds on a lighter colored (freight car red?) background.

what makes you think the car had a police escort? it's possible a car full of sugar would be targeted by strikers. ed mines

silver streak?

Yes, during the late steam era there were entire trains of express reefers on railroads in the anthracite region going to New York City, frequently ending with a coach or even several passenger cars.

My last employer sold solvent borne coatings.The most popular solvent was a mixture of toluene and MEK. Toluene (pronounced toolean by navy men) is an industrial narcotic - it gets you high. It is als

I've seen a couple of photos of former LV double door box cars rebuilt with a single door with the old lady billboard Susquehanna advertising.

Larry, this car was offered as a kit by Qualitycraft and later Gloor. I can USPS a photocopy (take a while to get it). Reply my e-mail ed_mines@....

I'm a little late to the show but at one time (1940s?) a man with a name something like Wisswasser offered O scale drawings of many RDG cars. I bought several in the '80s or '90s through the RDG socie

Anyone have any half built/complete Ambroid/Q'craft caboose kits they'd be willing to get rid of? contact me directly. ed mines

Whoever said you get what you pay for is right about the cheap Chinese drills sold on e bay. Some other bargain merchandise is pretty good though. I bought some pretty good drills from widget supply f

I buy less expensive pin vices from e bay too. Bought a bunch from Otto Frey too. Ed Mines

I buy them from e bay for around $2/10. 0.4mm is around .016". Ed Mines

I DRILLED 8 SMALL HOLES INTO THE CUPOLA CASTING OF A QUALITY CRAFT CABOOSE. IT TOOK ME 10-15 MINUTES WHILE WATCHING A VIDEO ON YOU TUBE. AS I'VE BEEN USING FOR THE LAST FEW MONTHS, I USED A TUNGSTEN C

Erie used them on some box cars. Sometimes a lot of cars would use more than one type of a trucks. Ed Mines

Both societies publish magazines but I can't tell you if the information you seek was in either one (the E-L society shows the contents of their back issue magazines on their web site). There may have

kit 4032 - shown decorated for Georgia railroad. can't figure out how to copy the online photo. ed mines

an ebay listing for ambroid cement reminds me I have come to terms with using fast drying duco cement. I dip parts in duco. a large volume of it leaves little residue. it is a good adhesive, just as g

The one with outside braces. Does this have a round roof or the same roof as the original single sheathed USRA box car. ed mines

are the plastic work car windows sold by Northeastern the same as the ones from Tichy or Grandt? ed mines