This has been hit or miss on ebay, and difficult to get things from local hobby shop. I am looking for a good source for both wood and styrene car roofs, sides, ends, and bottom frames. Suggestions mu

Need to move pulpwood? Fenton Wells shares Southern Railway prototype history and modeling techniques for a few car designs. It's the latest Resin Car Works blog post. http://blog.resincarworks.com/ E

While regrind can contribute to degredation, I believe the problems D.A. had with their gondolas is most likely due to their purchasing poorer quality styrene. Styrene is like lacquer thinner--its rec

Photo: Northern Ohio Traction & Light Co. Refrigerator Car An undated photo from the Columbus Metropolitan Library: https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/transport/id/8112

Not a typical arch bar truck. On a B&O N-8 hopper, photo from the Columbus OH. Library. Dave Nelson

I have for sale 5 pair of WalthersProto National B-1 Rigid Trucks. The trucks come with 33” metal wheels and metal axles (Walthers #920-2001). All 5 pair of trucks are in their original, unopened pack

Photo: N&W Hopper 21967 Unloading Coal A 1930 photo from the Grand Rapids Public Museum: https://www.grpmcollections.org/Detail/objects/172754 This photo can be enlarged quite a bit. Those are some bi

Hi List Members, I stumbled upon an interesting view which captures a steam era freight car of some sort, a coal conveyor, and two people... https://www.grpmcollections.org/Detail/objects/172757 In my

A fellow modeler is interested in building the attached ore car and asked if there are any drawings available. Any chance someone here would know about this car and have better photos and a possible d

Hi everyone- This single set of castings for the WP box car has been spoken for. Thanks, -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

Hello- I have made a few castings for a WP 42' single sheathed box car, the real one was built in 1916. Many of these cars reached a few years after the War, but most were rebuilt from the years of 19

Photo: Buckeye Steel Transfer Gondola An undated photo from the Columbus Metropolitan Library: https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/memory/id/71933/rec/2728 This is a ver

Hi Bob and List Members, This site also has a nice image of a three-axle truck under what I will guess is a steel gon... https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/memory/id/67

Photo: PM Boxcar 86696 With Banner A circa early 1930s photo from the Grand Rapids Public Museum: https://www.grpmcollections.org/Detail/objects/165248 This is a good quality photo and can be enlarged

Several years ago, I produced an HO Tennessee Central boxcar as-delivered in 1941 with flat, riveted roof and with what most modelers know as PS-0 ends (correct nomenclature is “proprietary Pullman Co

LVTs make excellent steam era freight car loads. In HO scale, the LVT(a)-4 and LVT-4 are produced by Artitec. Here are one each, test loaded on a P2K flat car. What is interesting to me is the sheer s

Using a photo of Rutland stock car #1960 to guide me I have detailed and damaged this F&C kit. So that I could damage the upper boards I substituted styrene strip of the same size—hopefully avoiding N

Sorry for this not perfectly on topic post, but . . . I need one bottle of Scalecoat 1 Silver paint. I started out a couple of months ago needing several colors, and found most of them, but the silver

Ed Sutorik asked: "I'm having trouble seeing where the Atlas rebuilt USRA cars are wrong for the SL-SF 127000-130499 cars. They look to match in the photos. What am I missing?" The Atlas models with M

Hi folks, In looking over what is available in HO scale for models of rebuilt double sheathed boxcars I've come up with a number of questions. I'm familiar with he early Sunshine kits for this type of