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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by tomwatkins Good Mornin' Everybody, Chris, enjoy the Intermountain hoppers. Intermountain is one of my favorite manufacturers. Their kits are really nice, and they go together well. One thing I've learned from experience with them that I'll mention is that frequently the mounting holes for the detail parts need to be enlarged slightly. I just run a drill bit through them prior to assembly. I think they're probably the right size before they're painted, but the paint tends to close them up just a little. I broke a number of very small parts trying to install them before I started doing that. I find this to be the case with Intermountain, Red Caboose and Branchline kits. I'd better go for now, It's time to get the day started. Have a great day everybody, Tom [/quote] Tom, I found out those things early in the hobby-both drilling the paint out of the holes and that high-end kits from IM, Red Caboose, and Branchline are some of the best kits to build. Jim: No kidding about J*** G*****! Whiny as I don't know what. Jimmie Johnson isn't much better. I can't stand either one of them. I got a kick out of "not buying a certain brand of paint," too![:D] Well I sort of got an early birthday present from the BNSF (my birthday's tomorrow).[;)] I was walking through the woods about a 1/4 from the tracks when I heard a train horn, so I ran through some fields and got to see my first train on this line for quite a while; the three locomotives up front were: A BNSF 4-axle GE from the 70's/80's, still painted in the blue/yellow Warbonnet scheme, Two BNSF SD-series locomotive, again from the 70s/80s, one still painted in BN Cascade Green, the other in Heritage 1. So that was pretty much the highlight of the day, since nothing else good happened... "If you're not shipping with Burlington Route, you're doing without!"
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