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Over the course of several years I managed to acquire all of the Limited Edition kits necessary for a complete Southern Pacific Daylight train. These kits were produced around 25 years ago and sold by Walthers. My set includes the baggage-coach, coach, tavern car, articulated coach, 3-car...

I often heard that fatigue of metal castings was fairly common in earlier kits. Yet, I’ve had no such experience with the many old cast metal freight cars that I own. So, I was surprised to find that the cast metal mainframe of a Rivarossi manufactured between 1974 and 1980 had disintegrated...

I met Ed of the E.Suydam Company back in the 1960s while working in Duarte, California. Once in awhile I would drop by his shop for a short visit and talk about the old Pacific Electric days, his HO building kits, and his brass trolley imports from Japan. At least a dozen men and women were...

Can anybody identify this car? I would like to know what the prototype was designed to haul. I would also like to know more about the model such as the manufacturer, part number, and approximate date of manufacture. Any possibility that ATSF actually had such a car in their fleet? -Ed Photo attached