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Re: HO Scale Test Car Kit

I have a picture of SP 5868 and several of SSW 99203, both of which are this type car. Contact me offline if you want me to send them to you. Thanks! -- Brian P. Ehni From:

By Brian Ehni <behni@...> · #109131 ·

Re: HO Scale Test Car Kit

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

By jerryglow2 · #109130 ·

Re: Report from PRR Meeting

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

By Bill Welch · #109129 ·

HO Scale Test Car Kit

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

By bn2204 · #109128 ·

Re: Report from PRR Meeting

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

By Eric Hansmann · #109127 ·

Re: Report from PRR Meeting

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

By Bruce Smith · #109126 ·

Report from PRR Meeting

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

By Bill Welch · #109125 ·

Re: ADMIN: Spammers, Spam, Spam Messages and Spammer Jail

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

By Dave Nelson · #109124 ·

Re: PRR Urethane kit project

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

By Al and Patricia Westerfield <westerfield@...> · #109123 ·

PRR Urethane kit project

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

By Bill Lane · #109122 ·

Re: [PCL] The Canadian-Replacement Stirrup Steps

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

By Tom Madden · #109121 ·

Re: ADMIN: Spammers, Spam, Spam Messages and Spammer Jail

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

By Tim O'Connor · #109120 ·

Re: [PCL] The Canadian-Replacement Stirrup Steps

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

By Brian Ehni <behni@...> · #109119 ·

Re: [PCL] The Canadian-Replacement Stirrup Steps

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

By Joel Holmes <lehighvalley@...> · #109118 ·

Re: [PCL] The Canadian-Replacement Stirrup Steps

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

By Frank Gendernalik · #109117 ·

Re: ADMIN: Spammers, Spam, Spam Messages and Spammer Jail

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

By Nolan Hinshaw · #109116 ·

Re: Auto Car Markings

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

By water.kresse@... · #109115 ·

Re: B&O M-15L lettering question

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

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #109114 ·

Re: B&O M-15L lettering question

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,

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #109113 ·

Re: ADMIN: Spammers, Spam, Spam Messages and Spammer Jail

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

By Jeff Shultz <jeff@...> · #109112 ·