I am detailing my small fleet of HO Bowser 55T hopper cars and want to replace the ladders with finer ones. Plate C Models makes replacement ladders but has been out of stock for awhile and they have

Was there anything new to report from the train show this past weekend? Steve Hile

Hey group, I have quite an eclectic group of items for sale today. Images are available here if you'd like to shop: https://www.flickr.com/photos/48288130@N02/albums/72177720303711337 Payment via PayP

Would anyone have a contact e-mail address for the Bessemer & Lake Erie Historical Society as I have a query regarding some of the B&LE hopper? The only link I can find on the website is a Facebook co

Hi All, I have been following the discussion of the USRA box cars with interest. As it turned to the roles of potential committees, MCB, AAR, USRA I thought the following would be of interest. I tried

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I am building Sunshine kit #29.12, however, this kit comes with Youngstown doors. I wish to build the car with 7 Panel Superior doors to represent a different series of the boxcar. The Youngstown door

I purchased the above Westerfield model some time ago. Whoever built it did an excellent job. I do, however, want to update the lettering to the later sachem. Most ( if not all) of these cars came equ

Aside from the N&W, were there any other owners, secondhand etc ? Regards, Ben Scanlon Tottenham, England

Greetings, Attached are a couple of photos of GN 79012, a 65’ mill gondola. The prototype was finished in January 1956 and had the new slanted lettering on mineral red paint. The model is scratch buil

I purchased this slight out 0of focus (Sorry) Westerfield Santa Fe stock car a while back. The builder did a great job on the car, however, I want to update it with the later lettering scheme. I have

Greetings, It has been a busy day. I just finished GN 79000, another 65’ mill gondola. This one was built in December 1955 and used the earlier lettering scheme. I know this one is correct since I had

Greetings, Yesterday I finished GN 2527, a baggage express boxcar. It is built from an Intermountain kit. The car was upgraded with a detailed underframe (including scratch built Universal rotary slac

I finished GN 66247 this morning, another scratch built 52’ flat car. These welded cars were built in 1945 and had deep fishbelly center sills and shallow sides. I appreciate the welded design, minimi

This is a question contemporary with the focus of the STMFC group, and one whose subjects would have pushed around a lot of STMFC. Rapido recently announced some GE 44-tonners in HO. Their ad shows ph

I have built and upgraded Spokane, Portland & Seattle gondola 23038. . If you are interested in the upgrade of this gondola including application of Archer retaining clips (tie downs). And, painting,

Another scratch built car, this time a flat car. I designed the car in CadRail and used a laser cutter to cut the steel and wood sections of the floor, sub floor, center sill, and all of the cross mem

I'm painting a caboose and noticed the one I had done years ago has the wrong trucks. Does anyone make a archbar leaf spring truck? I'm not too picky other than that... Clark Propst

Jim DIck wrote: First of all, what does a real railroad think of Single Sheathed vs Double Sheathed, read the attachments. And please note the date of the letter is right in the USRA era. Sure. Writte

Dear Friends and Colleagues, Attached is my For Sale List No. 4 of 47 more Sunshine Models kits, which are being offered first to my email list and members of this and other lists from which I have le