Steve, I think many of us just breathed a sigh of relief that it is finally being produced and went straight to the pre-order poage! Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

Bruce; I can’t be 100% accurate due to the quality of the photo, but the tank car to far right looks like an 8k SHPX uninsulated AC&F product. The insulated tank car is a big one. It might be a 10k. I

Folks, Can anyone provide a source for decals for D&H 40' PS-1 boxcars, series 20000-20249, Built in 1956? There is a photo here: http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/dh/dh20150bs.jpg There is also a photo o

The joke on us is that after decades of ATSF Athearn and other HO copies and the N Scale Roco MiniTrix and AHM and others copies of them being painted for every railroad under the sun..... ......late

Model: SRLX 6310 I photographed this N scale model of a Swift refrigerator car on the recent Pacific Southwest Region/NMRA Convention layout tour in Orange County, CA. The car is decorated in an obvio

I’m at the point with my Westerfield 50’ GN SS single door boxcar where I need to paint it. The instructions advise ‘mineral red’ for the time period in which it would have been shopped and painted. A

Charlie, I heartily agree. In fact, the whole PGE was a tough piece of railroading. There's a great soft cover book about the PGE and how it was built, plus the trials and tribulations of keeping it o

So I was going to start build on a couple of resin kits, thought I would try canopy glue this time, and then someone here (or another list) posted about taking models apart, putting them in the freeze

The Resin Car Works minions have been busy. Updates on three kits have posted to the blog. http://blog.resincarworks.com/rcw-update-2/ Eric Hansmann RCW web guy

Bob, The paint scheme is prototypical and was just offered in the latest run of the Rapido General America 37’ reefer. Rapido offered two numbers, 6307, and 6310. Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL From:

Andy, Oh boy... this is gonna hurt my bank account!! Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

All: Yesterday while at the Whistle Stop in Pasadena I discovered that they had somewhere around 50 Sunshine kits for sale. They are priced at either$50.00 or $60.00 each. They are not on their web si

Refrigerator Cars As Grain Carriers On those probably rare occasions that ice bunker refrigerator cars were used to transport grain because of boxcar shortages, how would the grain doors be secured to

On Sep 13, 2021, at 05:11, Robert G P <bobgp5109@...> wrote: > > Hello group, [in re: rail shipment of "steersch", as a family friend called it] I'm more familiar with the shipment of sugar beet beet

Bob, I don't think that would be realistic. First, manure needs to be composted before it can be used in gardens. It is too "hot" and full of hay seeds. That's fine to spread on the fields, but a disa

Where four wheeled Bobbers “outlawed”, outlawed from interchange, or was there a series of different laws and regulations beginning and ending at political boundaries? Paul Catapano Winchester, VA.

Paul, Perhaps I wasn't clear enough in my post earlier today, but the outlawing of bobber cabin cars has nothing to do with interchange. Indeed it was not regulated by the authorities that typically r

I'm building an F&C mill gon, specifically the one with McKeesport Connecting decals, although the kit instructions note that Union and other US Steel roads had identical cars. The brake gear arrangem

While on a recent trip visiting family, I stumbled across a couple very interesting rail cars that were built more than 110 years ago. These are featured in the latest DesignBuildOp blog post. http://

Hi group, I am looking for the instruction sheet for Sunshine Kit #66.3, ATSF Ft L&N 48'6" flat car with bulkheads. I am hoping that the instructions have a photo of the B end and brake appliances. Th