To All: One of my newest projects is this Diamond Crystal Salt 50' boxcar that I painted, lettered, weathered and dullcoated. I installed Intermountain Wheels, #58 Kadee couplers and weighted to NMRA specs. The car is a Details West offering. Decals are by Ricky Rupp of Modern Rail Company. Inspiration came from a photo accessed on the Web. Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail Group Layout

New project on the workbench.  Stage 2 of the painting done!

Just getting started.

Hi gang,

I have been tinkering with adding weight to my various cars, and I have found myself unable to open my exactrail cars...

Any tips? or should I just drill a hole in the bottom and fill them up with sand?

Thankyou,

Martin

My first ever Lionel didn't come to me inside wrapping paper. I was in 4th grade, and it was at the town dump. A friend of our family saw it, and grabbed it for me. It was MPC era, and appears to be a incomplete, slightly mis matched 1970 "Yardmaster" set. I was going on a biking trip with my family that day, and couldn't wait until I could see the train. I dug it out of the box, and looked it over. Funny thing is, the container it was in was by coincidence a trash can, without a lid. The train was in junk condition. But it was complete. The tracks were rusty.