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I have a undec. atlas 25500 gal tank car that I would like to do in a UTLX modern scheme. I have looked online and cant find any decals. wondering if someone can tell me where to get some, or why there are not available. I would think these would be popular.......Thanks.....Dale.

I normally stir mine. I have been using floquil and testors. When i'm done, I wipe out the inside of the lid and around the top of the bottle. I'm thinking this makes the lid not stick and be hard to get off.

I am painting an FEC double stack car yellow and need to know if I should use Tru-color paint and to use the FEC new Yellow or FEC old yellow. Also what is anyones opinion of Tru color airbrush paint. My other alternative is Testors flat sunflower color and plenty of weathering. Thanks......Dale.

I've searched the internet and cant find any modern UTLX tank car decals. Does anyone know who might make these decals? I dont know if I can trust Oddballs decals.

Thank you all for your input. I've pieced together enough of my my spare parts to make a reasonable running motor. Machining flywheels I cant do. But everything else I can. I may look further into can motors and try again.

I substituted a kato motor in an athearn SD-40-2 but I didn't see much improvement in slow speed performance. I have a life-like SD 50 that performs pretty well with the walthers athearn-style motor. I put a walthers motor in an athearn AC44 and the performance is OK... none match the...

I only observed the motor after I oiled it and it appeared normal. When it started to buzz again, I told the man to buy a new motor. We had a stove exhaust fan buzzed and ran slow like the athearn motor, and I bought a new motor. I was just wondering if anyone else had thought that a motor...

Hi everyone. A friend has an Athearn RTR motor new that buzzes and runs slowly. I oiled it a little and it was OK for a while, then went to buzzing again. I'm thinking that there may be a little too much clearance between the shaft and the bushing and the shaft is bouncing around inside the...

Hi, all! I have some of my athearn locos run a little slower frontwards than backwards. took motors out and found motors run a little slower in one direction than the other. Was wondering if anyone knew why this was or if this was normal. Also have a motor that seems like it runs equally in...

Hi, all! I was wondering if there was any practical way to change athearn rtr 12:1 gearing to genesis 14:1 gearing. thanks....Dale

Hi all. I was wondering if anyone knows of any decals for ho 53 ft trailers in a Hobby Lobby scheme, or has some good pics of these. I have seen them riding the rails....Thanks..............Dale.

I have a couple of Walthers 53 ft containers that don't look too bad other than missing numbers on the front. I would like to use a computer to make black numbers and clear background onto a waterslide decal. Need to know where to buy and what kind of decal paper to buy and what kind of...

Hi all. Saw on model train stuff they had Walthers scene master 53 ft containers such as a 949-8504. Wondering if anyone has bought any of these and your opinion of their quality. They didn't look that bad only from the picture. I usually like atlas or athearn. Thanks...Dale

Hi all. Am making a scrap aluminum load for a gondola. have a wood block w/ foil on top, to within about 1/8 in of top edge of car. I have little bits of aluminum (about 1/4 in size) to spread or sprinkle on top of this up to the top of car. I would like to know a good adhesive to use to...

You can also grind a little off the axle end to prevent touching. Not related to this, but I have had locos short and had to clean copper filings from between commutator sections.

Referencing can motor options, any opinions as to nwsl/mashima, vs athearn genesis vs KATO's?

the shell amplifies the noise. i will try better bearings and less play in my components. i've dressed several commutators by spinning motor at full speed,while touching commutator w/ 400 grit sand paper, very lightly. Motor speed actually increases during this process. I have a GP-50 that...

Hi, all. Made some progress on my ac44 starting , works 'bout as good as an athearn can. gearboxes are pretty free. Now I have excessive gear noise. All the gears look good, mesh nicely, using brass worm. I cant figure out the noise. The buzz seems about in sync with motor revs...

I notice with new engines, there is a little plastic sheath between the item and its cushion shell. A friend told me not to wrap models in plastic umbrella bags as the bags will mar the paint on the item. What kinds of plastic sheet is ok to use to wrap models or what kinds are not. I am...