Yardmaster cars have most of the details molded on, and go together only slightly harder than an Athearn Blue Box kit. Also the only thing they made in yard,aster were 1932 AAR boxcars. The Blueprint Series has everything seperate - grabs, steps, brake piping. Teeny tiny details that aren't for the first time kit builder, you should ahve alittle experience under your belt before tacklign oen of those. The Blueprint passenger cars are literally insane - the truck safety chains you put together by gluung the individual links! There are a wide variety of kits in the Blueprint series, and they do build up into probably the nicest specific model freight cars next to the resin models from Sunshine, Westerfield, and Funero.
I have some of each.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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I used to know this but have forgotten. Branchline Trains have two series of freight cars, the Yardmaster series and the Blueprint series. What are the differences between the two? I remember one set had the plastic molded to the basic car color and then they just printed the lettering on the raw plastic. I know at least one of the series has a brake hose. But I don't know which is which or what the other differences are.