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I have again started working on one lead and two drone type track cars that were built by Southern in their Coster shops to carry track panels. The first time building these cars I started with a couple of Athearn gon, but none of the ribs lined up correctly, and the side walls were not...

Need some help with cutting sheet styrene! When I use the scribe and snap method, I never seem to get a straight cut. I am using a metal straight edge and the back side of an exacto knife. I just can not seem to get a straight line. I have been mainly working with 0.020 and need to cut...

Hello: I am looking for a couple of scratch building hints. I am building a couple of well cars and could use some help. 1) What do you use to cut small brass structural shapes, I need to cut both flat and angle (1/8 & 1/16) pieces. My old flush cutters did not do a good job, maybe I need...

I have just about completed three new flat cars. The first two started out as Athearn Heavy Weight Flat cars. They need a little filler and brake stands (on order) before heading to the paint shop. The first one is an 40 foot, 8 alxe heavy weight flat, the second is a 8 axle, 20 foot well hole...

Hello All: Today, I updated my schnabel car web pages. There are now over 1400 photos of 61 different schnabel cars from the US, Europe and Asia. Some of the new photos are from the 36 axle CEBX 800 movement of a 100 foot long 570 ton reactor from Houston to the Denver area. This is the...