Ask Trains.com August 2024 compilation | From our new Firecrown Media office space in Wisconsin, host Cody Grivno fields a wide array of modeling and prototype railroading questions. This month Cody addresses your questions regarding locomotive paint schemes for the legendary MR&T HO scale layout; airbrushing skills; prototypical placement of railcar data; selecting industry-appropriate freight cars, plus plenty of other model and prototype railroading inquires!
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Ask Trains.com is a regular video feature of Trains.com for magazine subscribers and Trains.com members, where editors answer the questions readers and viewers are asking.
Special guests can include editors and contributors from Model Railroader, Trains, Classic Toy Trains, Garden Railways and Trains.com.
Questions can be about any railroad or model railroading topic, including on the fan configuration on an SD45. These can include questions about railroad operating practices, railroad lantern manufacturer details, model locomotive details, and toy train transformers, among others.
Trains.com and Model Railroader Senior Editor Cody Grivno works through many of these questions, which are posted twice a week, each week, all year! See all our answers to questions online!
Mid-Continent Railway Museum in North Freedom, Wi has a great example of an operating Doodlebug.
Cody, thanks for all the advice on my airbrushing issues. I’ve made notes to reference when I rebuild that structure in the coming months. I’ve done a lot of airbrushing in the past few years but never ran into those problems before. I’ll definitely test on scrap next time, just in case there’s a problem.
Funny that you say that the Brand new Yellow UP Box cars are all done that way with high numbers, BUT!!!! the trains are now coming out of LA those cars that were clean a few months ago are getting new coats a fresh spray paint every time they pass by.