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Re: Kadee's new generation of trucks

John Golden wrote: Actually they call it "Heavy Gravity Compound." I talked to Sam about it a few days ago. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave.,

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #108771 ·

Re: Let's talk about ladders.

Or just roll your own: http://www.pullmanproject.com/Ladders.pdf Tom Madden

By Tom Madden · #108770 ·

Re: History of Prototype Freight Car Modeling

If I remember correctly, they had ads in the old "Builders Compendium" that was issued in the early 70s. The company was (or still is) owned by Edward J. Petras). The last address I saw for him was

By Frank Pearsall · #108769 ·

Re: History of Prototype Freight Car Modeling Gould/TichyIMWX timeframe.

I’m going to say something that is perhaps long overdue... Bill hits on a very valid point here. As he puts it, the efforts of authors like “Messers. Hawkins, Wider and Long”, Richard

By Bill Schneider · #108768 ·

Re: Kadee's new generation of trucks

Marcelo, I've polished hundreds of Kadee wheel treads, but I've retired from that now. So long, Andy

By Andy Sperandeo · #108766 ·

Re: Accurail 40' Steel Plug Door Refrigerator Car

I confess I paint and decal everything so I do not pay attention to what manufacturers are issuing already painted and lettered. Accurail does have good representations of what they are doing and

By Bill Welch · #108765 ·

Re: Kadee's new generation of trucks

Did you try to polish the Kadee wheel's treads with a wire brush on a rotary tool , I got very good results . becarefull with too much pressure or you will melt the axle points as I did on my first

By Marcelo Lordeiro <mrcustom@...> · #108764 ·

Re: Kadee's new generation of trucks

I've installed Reboxx wheelsets in the Kadee HGC trucks with good results, but I don't remember offhand which axle length they were. I like the trucks very much, but prefer the appearance of the

By Andy Sperandeo · #108763 ·

Re: History of Prototype Freight Car Modeling

You say this as if I've never paid for a photo, which you have no way of knowing. That's the thing, availability. I don't mind paying for photos but they need to be available and I need to be sure

By Andy Harman · #108762 ·

Re: Let's talk about ladders.

Too long ago to think about I had some stamped brass freight car ladders from Kemtron, and still have a couple pair on old cabooses. They're not as bulky as you might expect, but obviously etching

By Andy Sperandeo · #108759 ·

Re: History of Prototype Freight Car Modeling

I donno, Andy, I'm sitting here at my desk looking at a set Pullman - Standard took in 1976. The difference is, these aren't free off the web, one actually has to pay money for them. P-S took

By soolinehistory <destorzek@...> · #108758 ·

Re: Accurail 40' Steel Plug Door Refrigerator Car

Bill, Accurail's website shows the FGE car with a NEW -52 date and WFE with a JAX -60 reweigh date, both in the Optic style letters. -- Frank Greene Memphis, TN

By Frank Greene · #108757 ·

Re: History of Prototype Freight Car Modeling Gould/TichyIMWX timeframe.

Another reason why I think the IMWX model had great impact was that it coincided w/Rail Model Journal's articles about the 1937 boxcar both on the real thing with the photo resources of the Messers.

By Bill Welch · #108756 ·

Re: History of Prototype Freight Car Modeling

Hi Bill; I think you will find this history of Pacific Rail Shops on the S Scale Sig site interesting, as it connects PRS, IMWX and Front Range with specific products and

By Pieter Roos · #108755 ·

Re: Kadee's new generation of trucks

Andy, Check out the latest SCL Modeler on the ACL & SAL Historical Scoeity web site. I did an article on the SAL B-8/B-9 cars and used the Kadee trucks with Reboxx semi-scale wheelsets and the

By golden1014 · #108767 ·

Re: History of Prototype Freight Car Modeling

I bought one when it was first released and all the rage, still under the Gould label. I never built it because I really didn't know what to do with it - back then I just tended to buy anything I

By Andy Harman · #108754 ·

Re: Kadee's new generation of trucks

Must have missed that. I was looking around the web site but didn't look under wheel sets. Rip Van Harman

By Andy Harman · #108753 ·

Re: History of Prototype Freight Car Modeling

I first became interested in accurate freight car modeling in the early 1980s. I had a friend who was a college student and he couldn't afford to build locomotives, so he built freight cars - a fair

By Andy Harman · #108752 ·

Re: History of Prototype Freight Car Modeling Gould/TichyIMWX timeframe.

This is fun to try and test my memory without looking it up... my normal source is old MR ads and what not, but those are all in storage while I fix up my basement. I remember the Gould tank car and

By Andy Harman · #108751 ·

Re: "The Nickel Plate Story" 1953

Ray.... Thanks for the history lesson. It,s amazing what turns up in those old PR films. Thanks again... David

By David Henderson · #108750 ·

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