Hi Dan, I like them. You have done a superb good modeling work Regards Christer 2021-01-17 15:34 skrev Daniel A. Mitchell:

Murphy’s Law is at work, again. Rapido has announce that they are going to release models of the PRR F30D TOFC flatcar. As might be expected I recently completed a Sparrows Point F30D kitbash from a

I too will be working on an NPK BM70KA for this project, I nabbed the last one and it has finally made its way to my workbench. I second Dave's appreciation for the inspiration of Steve's photos of

I am looking for drawings and/or dimensions for those two towers. They were at each end of the tracks at Penn Station in Baltimore. I am modeling the station in O Scale with a 80% scale model of the

That's what I have done. Bob Kessler

Hi Dave, I have borrowed from the HO brass manufacturers and used .015 in. diameter brass wire to represent the rain strips on the roof over the doors. I start by drilling two No. 78 holes in the

Coming along great, Dave. I got my Keystone mag in the mail over the weekend, excellent issue. I also added more fuel to my fire by purchasing a BM70M from NKP Car Co., his last one. I bid on a pair

Dave, I will look at my "former" M70b. It does mention the rain drip strips. They should not be hard to fab, possibly from Evergreen 1x2 or 1x3 strip, although it appears thicker in your photo Rich

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Group, has anyone made gutters for over the doors of their cars? I’m assuming a small piece of strip styrene would work. Any bother thoughts? Dave Wilson

Hello Bruce, I would start with looking at a Car Builders Cyclopedia from the era you wish to model, there will be detailed photos and drawings of trucks and their brake rigging. Erich Brock, Santa

Folks, Does anyone have suggestions for accurately modeling the trucks carried by the idler? Obviously, these tended to be older trucks, so Andrews (Crown) are clearly appropriate, but I’m looking

Hi Kris: Maybe you have seen the attached photo already, but it appears to show a wood chock at the closest truck wheel. I assume this is an FM. Also of interest are the two Crown-style trucks on the

Bruce Good observations. I agree there have to have been storage containers / bins for chains, tools, etc. rail secured to the wooden deck makes perfect sense especially since ‘chalks‘ could be

Kris, I've been wondering the same thing. From my observations, the wheels on most of the "shop" trucks on these cars appear to be above the deck, so I'm hypothesizing that there might have been wood

I’ve seen numerous photos of idler cars carrying freight car trucks. How were these trucks secured to the flat car? Was there a ‘cradle’ of sorts that the truck sat on? Did it rest on the car

Thanks for the pics, Steve!! I picked up one of the last two NKP Car Co. kits. The etched sides are beautiful. I hope I can turn mine into as nice of as a model as yours. Dave Wilson

BM70K or BM70KA is the question. Differences are minor but visible. It all depends on which subclass of BM70 they were converted from. The diagrams on

I have uploaded three photos of my HO BM70KA to the Mail Cars folder at https://groups.io/g/PRRPro/album?id=258835 The model was built from a NKP Car Co. kit in 2013. The underframe is not at

Group, this is my in progress view of the M70b. I think I’ll start detailing the roof next. Dave Wilson