Ask Trains.com December 2024 compilation | Host Cody Grivno tackles tough topics in model railroading and 1:1 scale railroading too! In this episode he addresses your questions about long-term use of lichen scenery material; selecting the ideal Code of trackwork; finding specific freight car couplers; painting a proper blue sky backdrop; plus a wide array of other modeling and railroading topics that viewers just like you are asking too!
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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!
Cody,
I recently been acquiring some Milwaukee Road railcars for my Trewsville Southern and have noticed they have an F on top of the reporting mark, what was that used for?
For structures and industries, I’d suggest the articles by E L Moore. So many of his structures are perfect for late 1800s/early 1900s industries. I’d love it if some enterprising publisher would collect all his articles from MR and RMC into a single book/electronic set. Not only were his structures perfect for early railroads, but his methods and techniques made building them easy and enjoyable.