Gents, Would anyone know if the Kadee HO hopper is okay for the late-40s Reading cars? Kadee offers them in early-50s paint, but I'm interested in doing some in the late 40s scheme with Roman

Hi Larry and List Members, Larry wrote: I'm a few days behind in this discussion, but I looked in the above TSC and page 241 does not have a Reading gon on it. Typo? Your thoughts, Larry? -

Anyone have opinions on the accuracy of the paint jobs on these? I'm pretty sure the Fruit Growers is wrong, but how about the others? Ed Edward Sutorik

Tim, I don't know about taking over the business, but Stevie is making masters for F&C to produce. Regards, -Jeff Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 11:41 AM To:

The paucity of military house cars in the ORER is most likely because they were not in interchange service. As noted earlier, munitions were delivered to military bases on common carrier cars

Sunshine Models will be at Timonium, Feb. 4&5. For a flyer about it see http://www.sunshinekits.com/meets.html There will be new decals for Assignment, Restriction, Routing stencils. See my Recent

Given the consistent fidelity to prototype of numerous W&R products, one can feel immediately skeptical about Stevie's remark. Moreover, double riveting of tank seams came in with the 1910

Brian, here's an old note of mine: Railway Age 1/1947 V.122 #1 p.111 American Steel Foundries ad with photo of ASF A-3; claims that 26,000 pairs were ordered in 1946 Tim O'Connor

Bruce Smith wrote Bruce, I don't know what Stevie meant, but I have a 1-dome and a 4-dome W&R tank and neither one has dual rows of rivets anywhere, and certainly not where the ends are attached. Is

Jeff, my apologies for missing your post as it seems I've mirrored to some extent your sentiments - you've simply been more concise. I can't say this enough; the best you can do for the hobby is to

I suspect it's intended purpose is exactly what is implied in the name; removing ink lines from Mylar drawings, leaving a toothed surface similar to the original frosted surface on the Mylar, ready

Frankly I don't think you are being blunt enough, Tom. (I'm new to this group and this is my first post here.) I've been following this thread with great interest. Within my circle of associates are

Todd, This morning I had time to check my files and the drawing I have is for the S. Morgan Smith Company of York, PA. Notations on the drawing also reference car ACMX 415, and indicate the cars

FWIW, here are my two cents. First of all, it's a hobby. That means that folks will do things as "a labor of love" that don't make economic sense. For example, making patterns for an obscure part,

Gentlemen, Maybe I'm missing the point here but as Tom says he wants to do what he wants to do. I respect that. The key here, in my opinion is that this is a business, albeit a smaller one and

I just realised I rather stupidly forgot to say that I meant "Prototype Modelers Boutique" to be a separate Yahoo list, rather than a physical entity.

Hi Tom, I second this. I would hate to see you leave PCL. That group has been of much value to me and I am always in need of Pullman heavy weight parts. They are hard to come by and I must make

Tom - frankly I'd hate to see you step aside as list owner at PCL, as you've fostered a good atmosphere over there. I'd have thought that a reasonable way to approach this would be for a separate

The "problem" is that Tom is exceptional at both aspects. Few do or are willing to do the quality of the castings he produces. Several small producers have run into problems relying on others to do

I am now offering decals suitable for the F&C type II tank cars or similar projects. I hope to add sets for the new high walkway cars as details are available. See: