Hi Would anybody happen to have four of the Creco doors made by Keith Reterrer they would be willing to sell? thanks, Tom Dill

I have a commercial styrene wheel mask for keeping the paint off the treads (spraying). However the axel ends are not masked. Short of something applied to each end does anyone know of a cap

At the risk of beating a dead horse, I'll also note that gross and not very accurate machining of castings or steel forgings, to remove lots of metal before getting down to accurate machining, is

well, there has been a fair amount of info on the "hogged fuel" but little on the cars, which was the concern. guess the only photos out there are the few that I have. thanks, Tom Dill Tom

I'd like to add to the comments here; First of all I've found that original flavored Pinesol removes paint from plastic quite well. Once the paint is loosened use a stiff bristle brush to whisk as

Jim, good point. The misunderstanding of the name must be pretty widespread (or was widespread)... The NP train sheet analysis I did for several months in 1953-7 for the Tacoma Division North Branches

Tony, I'm sure I've seen official SP documents somewhere that used the term hog fuel, but I just looked up SP 52490, a rebuilt A-50-6 (de-roofed with added small side-doors) and it is listed in the

Indeed, as of January 1914 there were 81,507 Bettendorf underframes in service in freight cars of many railroads including: Armour Arizona Eastern CB&Q CM&StP CRI&P CStPM&O Central of

Paul, You might want to try Scalecoat paint remover. I've used it to remove factory lettering on a finished locomotive. It worked quite well for me. Didn't really have any effect on the paint job. I

Ashley I think the Riv model was a post-1950 PS-1 with an 8' door; definitely not a model of the New Haven pre-1950 PS-1's with 7' doors. Moreover I have never seen a photo of a New Haven PS-1 in the

Rob,   Many thanks for taking the site back to operational status. I, for one, appreciate your efforts.   Fred Freitas   ________________________________ To: STMFC@... Sent: Saturday,

The only way I've heard of that will remove only the lettering is to abrade it with baking soda and a Q-tip moistened in alcohol. In my opoinion, this is very tedious practice, but for a single car

One has to agree with you here, Tim. I have tried to limit the number of groups "subscribed" to but one can always join one for a sort time as needed. Like you, I also utilize the single daily

Speaking of freight cars, one of the very first box cars i ever owned was a Rivarossi New Haven model in black with the white and orange lettering. Of course this is likely to be totally bogus, or at

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My point exactly. People, even in the industry call the rig a hog machine because they don’t hear the ‘ed.’ Calling the hogged fuel hog fuel even on the SP doesn’t make hogged fuel hog fuel

From an on-line dictionary: "To shred (waste wood, for example) by machine." I'll modify that by noting that I do some work at a factory that has machines that are referred to as "hoggers". They

I wanted to get a Walthers undec Troop Sleeper but couldn't find one, so I wound up with a blue B&O version, #932-4169. I want to paint it for the C&EI, in their blue with orange striping. The

Jim Sabol wrote: No argument with this as far as it goes, but wood chipper machines for decades in sawmills have been called "hogs" and their product "hog fuel." They are by means restricted to

Rob.   Are you going to run it the way it was intended to???  I can start sending photos when you are ready!!!!    Dennis Williams ________________________________ To: