Charles and Ed, Thank you for confirming my fears. Will have to send this very attractive model to the paint shop for something a lot less flashy. As Ed was less than fully impressed with the Kurtz

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Guys; The way I understand it, F&C is doing the final version with truss reinforcements and AB brakes. I have built Al's fine kit, but I wanted a car for

Bill, Thanks for this wonderful information! Jim Brewer Glenwood MD

Tony, I was able to open both links this morning. I was using Mozilla's Firefox browser on Comcast using an Apple Mac Mini. Ken Montero

Bob, can't comment on the Reefer but I can tell you that the gondola represented an Erie prototype. I never measured their SW-1 but the drive was unique. As I recall their truck at the time were

Tony, If you put the address in an then ADD "g.jpg" on the first one and "rg.jpg" on the second one, they will work... Jim Scott Lompoc, CA ________________________________ To:

Bob Chaparro wrote: Bob, these links return the message, "The image or video has been moved or deleted." Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave.,

Lindberg once produced a line of HO locomotives and cars in the 1950s and 1960s which included a refrigerator car. This link show several offerings from that line and the refrigerator car is among

Hi Dan, In 1957 there were 2290 XMs in DRGW 67500-69899. There are a lot of photos of this series - I just looked at a sample that I had on hand; they had 6 foot doors, riveted sides with 12 panels

Dan, D&RGW 67500-69899 were 40' box cars built 1939 to 1946 by Pressed Steel Car Co. with 12-panel riveted sides. The PS-1 model is a foobie, at least for the period of this forum. Regards, Ed

Al, So you did that too? :-) Dennis

Al: Thanks for the information on the Tichy 40' low-side gondola. It was very helpful! Eric Hiser Phoenix, AZ

Agreed: cheap, fun-to-build, and beautiful lettering. Not so sure about authenticity of lettering. Was unable to resist a very attractive silver and gold (not Cookie Box) D&RGW PS-1 with 7'

Jerry – Virtually all of my cars were lettered differently on each side; I never had the time to build one of each. Some even had different paint schemes. And one hopper car had totally different

Admittedly, I gave a condensed version. Rich Orr

Thank you Al and Chuck.I'll try it in the morning.Armand Premo

Armand – You can improve the look of the angled tubing method the way I did: 1, round the edges with a file; and 2, after applying to the car add a drop of cyanoacrylate; it will migrate more to the

Richard – Thanks. – Al Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2012 2:08 PM To: STMFC@... Subject: [STMFC] History of Prototype Freight Car Modeling Hi Al... We did that interview in early 1996 and

Clark. One failing of the Tichy car is the lack of rivets on the sides of the ends. Archer has solved that problem ;^) Regards Bruce Smith Auburn, AL ________________________________________ Sent:

Well, they were barged to and from Havana. The salt spray may have accelerated the weathering. Jim [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]