They seem to be fairly generic with minor differences. MP had some see: http://www.forums.rrarchives.com/download/file.php?id=4102 From what I understand, they were orange in earlier times. I did a

Thank you Bruce and Eric I am personally pleased to see the 36-foot cars. These shorter cars and the 50-foot cars together made up about 14% of the XM car fleet in the USA in the post-WWII era. I am

Over the weekend, I picked up a white metal kit of a HO Scale Test Car that was manufactured by Stewart Products of Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Does anyone know much about the kit, or prototypes it

Bill, While I did not attend the recent PRR meet, I did attend the RPM-Valley Forge event a couple months back. I posted a similar message to the 1914-1941 group and must have forgotten to post it

Bill, Folks, A number of STMFC listers were there including yours truly. Lots of interesting stuff going on and great models in the model room. One of the highlights was indeed F&C with 2 new PRR

Just curious if anyone on the list was at the PRR meeting this past weekend and if so can they report on new Funaro & Camerlengo kits? In addition to the new PRR kits they are advertising I see they

Just as a FWIW, A couple of months ago I sent an e-mail to Mike asking about contingency plans if Yahoo goes down the toilet. Does anyone EVER look at the ads they append to messages? I doubt

Bill – I don’t want to dampen your enthusiasm but there are few economies of scale in urethane production. New patterns would be required for each scale. Once the problem of making one scale is

I am looking for a person or group of people in another scale to piggyback and share expenses for a PRR urethane freight car kit I am trying to get started with a high end manufacturer. It is not

Brian Ehni wrote: Threads often get hijacked, but this is the first time I can recall a thread post escaping to another group! The Rapido Canadian step issue is under discussion on the Passenger Car

Nolan, I neglected to mention spoofing. But a hijacked web browser is NOT spoofing in the classic sense, because it is YOUR machine and YOUR browser that is sending the emails. And yes, Usenet

You say that as if the ALCO PA steps were identical to EMD'sŠ And what diesel locomotive steps (or "The Canadian" passenger train for that matter) have to do with STMFC, I'll never

Hi Frank, I will second that idea. I need quite a few stirrups for my F-7A/B's. Joel Holmes

As an aside, I'm sure there are more than a few blue box Athearn covered wagons (EMD F's, ALCO PA/PB's, etc.) with missing/broken stirrup steps out there. If you are going to tool up replacement steps

There is at least one web app which exploits a weakness in Internet Exploder: if a victim has an authenticated session to a webmail host and while connected browses to a page which activates the

It was Henry Ford and his new Model A that caused these problems . . . they wanted to ship their cars complete on their framed chassis.  The auto industry lobbied the railroad industry for those

Tim O'Connor wrote: That sounds logical, but isn't correct. The word "AUTOMOBILE" was not required, though RECOMMENDED for any suitable double-door car. It is the white stripe that was

Ben Hom wrote: And on p. 19 of that book is the AAR lettering requirements page, reprinted in a number of issues of the ORER. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley,

Sorry, didn't see this until after I sent my last one. -- Jeff Shultz http://www.shultzinfosystems.com

Guys, Off Group. Use: STMFC-owner@... Mike Brock...I think STMFC Owner