I want to re paint an Athearn heavyweight rear platform observation in IC brown. My question is should I worry about stripping it or just paint it? What would I strip it with? It is currently green.

2 Yards on the GS&M - Old Pueblo Yard: OPY & La Grange Industrial Park: LGIP

 With all the talk about Yards the last few days.  I figured I would post a few photos of the 2 main Yard areas on my layout The Gila Springs & Mesquite.

I recently acquired one of these fine old craftsman kits.  It appears to be designed to have the service track dump coal under the tower, and has two chutes on a track beside the tower.   I would like to put one chute under the tower, and have the coal dump and sand service track outside the elevator  -  something like these two rough diagrams:

Hello and good morning,

As this is my first post it may be a big one but here goes.

I have been a student of the 1910 Wellington avalanche

on the G.N., Cascade Division for a number of years now and 

I was previously (forgive me- an HO gauge one plywood sheet railroader

which sat on my parents pool table) And of course getting married 34