Dennis, My still operational SW-1 (600 HP) diesel didn't have think paint and to this day is still one of the best running slow moving locomotives in my fleet. That it is now lettered for PE 1010

Ben, I'm still up! I never associated the Lindberg stock car with anything GN. But I couldn't locate my sample tonight to list what might make it not GN. Does anyone have a good 3/4 view of the model

Sorry, that last message was incomplete. Things changed when CAD became available to small users. For 25 years now I have been doing engineering design for almost every HO mfgr. This was all

Turn your computer into making money machine. http://www.blkorea.com/work.home.php?jngoogleid=9oboy

I think it is time for me to chime in on this. For one thing I have to defend Irv Athearn who was guilt of all the warts and pimples, like mirror image underframes, thick doors with claws, overssize

Have you tried to glue the sides? Many MANY years ago, a high school buddy of mine had one of the Lindberg SW-600 locomotives, which actually wasn't a bad looking model, for the day... detailing was

John Allyn wrote: "I have a vague recollection of an MR review of the [Lindberg] stock car saying that it was a GN prototype, fairly modern (like late forties )." Vague recollection of an MR

Ben -- I have a vague recollection of an MR review of the sto ck car saying that it was a GN prototype, fairly modern (like late forties ).  John B. Allyn

Bob Chapparo asked: "Lindberg once produced a line of HO locomotives and cars in the 1950s and 1960s which included a refrigerator car. This link shows several offerings from that line and the

Jim Scott wrote: I did notice the wrap-around and fixed it last night, but still no dice. Still getting "Page not found." Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906

The image of the reefer in that ad is too small to say anything useful about its prototype, if any, except that it certainly was NOT an SFRD car, as the model had 4' wide doors and Santa Fe cars

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