Hi all,

       I am painting/decal-ing/weathering a PRR P5A box cab E-loco around 1951.My question is that I have MicroScale blank Keystones for the doors at either end.These however will require the road number in them.So,...should I shoot some gloss cote on these or can I just apply the numbers over the blank Keystone?

Thanks for any help,Dr D

To All: My goal in painting and lettering freight cars is to do some of the small roads. One of these was the Columbia, Newberry & Laurens, a short line in South Carolina. It was one of the "Golden" roads of that state. The decals are by Gerald Glow, a fine maker of decals. I need to add a Tichy roofwalk, #58 Kadee couplers and metal wheels. The CN&L became part of the Atlantic Coast Line RR in 1924 and later part of CSX.

Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail Group Layout

Has anybody tried to accurately model a pre-WW1 era car with railroad wheels in HO scale?  Powered would be nice, but dummy would be good as well.

 To All: A  freight car project I recently finished is a 50 foot wood automobile boxcar by Ambroid. I picked up this car at the Feb. Jacksonville, Florida train show for $2.50! It had the body assembled but unfinished and unpainted. That was it. I supplied the materials to add grab irons,stirrups, roof walk, underbody details, including brake rigging, coupler cut bars, air hoses, paint, decals trucks and brake wheel. I weighed,painted, lettered, weathered and dullcoated the car. I will use it on the Cotton Belt's Blue Streak Merchandise train.