One of the AAR recommendations / requirements for AB brake installations was that the control valve was to NOT be placed below a door, where trucks backing up to the car to load / unload might damage

Hi Mark, I prefer the siphon bottle by a large margin. I may be just too clumsy to use the gravity cup without spilling, but I also like being able to screw a siphon cap onto the same bottle in which

Good Morning, I'm going to breakdown and buy and airbrush even though I just want to keep sending Sunshine checks I need to be able to paint without visiting friends. I have used brushes from

Jerry, please contact me off list. Emails to your address are not being answered. Allen Cain

Group, I'm sorry the cut off is 1960. Lenny

In my post yesterday I forgot to say that the The Little Giant bay window caboose issue, Volume 6, Numbers 3 and 4, is available for sale to those who are not P&LE Historical members. You can download

Joel – I actually wrote that article in 1981. I have no memory of the details. The original trucks are not available from any source. A sideframe would have to be built from scratch. That’s

Hi Al, You say they were re-trucked in 1924. What type of trucks did they receive? Do you know where to find the original style trucks in HO? Would Buckeye trucks be a suitable substitute? Thank

Dear Larry: Is just the single issue of the magazine for sale? Ron Parisi [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

A while back i posted a question on one of Al's first kits which was the I-GN (MP) door and a half 40 ft. auto car. My question at that time concerned a more modern lettering scheme for this car

Al – I had a copy of the article that went to Andrew Dahm in the sale of the business. Perhaps he’ll scan it for you. – Al Westerfield Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 6:33 PM To:

This is a little newer, however I'll go for it. During 1964 While working a Q branch line in the SE corner of Iowa I had a gondola load of coal come in. It was unloaded by a gentleman using a shovel

Diagonal lines will be pixelated at 400 dpi when published. I would recommend much more, probably 1200 dpi or more. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest

Jeff,   This is great to look at . . . . but it ain't usable in an InDesign layout.  The finished models are gorgeous!  Not many coal cars were purchased in 1921 and then completely re-trucked in

Hi Al and Jeff, I was looking for a publication ready quality set of drawings to scan and  publish in a C&O History Magazine article.  I was planning on scanning at 400 dpi and then cleaning them

Dennis Williams wrote: Of course he owns the molds - after all, he makes them. It's the masters someone asked about. I suspect he owns those as well, inasmuch as the patternmaker typically receives

--- In STMFC@..., "Steve Sandifer" <steve.sandifer@...> wrote:> Yes, sir! That's very much like the ones in my home town. Gene Green

Not obvious from the photo is these sheds were normally divided into separate bins with bulkheads inside midway between the doors. This shed had four doors, so as many as four different grades of coal

Larry, I do not have exact date detail but there is a Western Maryland lettering summary noted on the website for my old South Elkins

It depends how long the coal was expected to stay there. Coal won't melt in a day, or week, even. What was put in the tender today was expected to be gone by tomorrow. On the other hand, the freeze /