Jerry et all, On this issue, all I can say is that alot of different things are under consideration for future projects. Pierre Oliver

OK, sorry for the mix-up. So, how about Yarmouth doing a helium car? Jerry Michels

Reading the posts on the R7 cars probably sparked an interest in building one of Al's HO models. I built one last year and the one piece body had a slight bulge in the middle of the roof. Al

With all due respect, Bruce, I wish you could see the Pennsy in the light which far more of us in the Northeast than you may realize view it. Speaking for myself, I have called it the "Standard

Hi to all Thanks to all those who answered on the list, I have managed to sort out a way to get it done thanks to those responses. Much appreciated. BTW with all the talk on Helium cars I looked

Bill wrote: I wholeheartedly agree with you Bill. I'll be presenting a new clinic at this year's Naperville RPM entitled "Making the Most of your Modeling Time". The idea is that we get

I am being admittedly speculative with the following comments but two possible destinations in the south immediately come to mind after reading Tony Thompson's blog. In about 1951 the still

I wrote a blog post about how I converted a pair of the former MDC 26-foot 100-ton ore car trucks for use under a helium car. Here is the link again for anyone who may have missed it and is

You guys are sure good at answering anything but Bill's question, aren't you? LOL Bill, What I do with my autocad drawings is use the export command and then save that as a .wmf file that imports

One of the things I enjoy is tweaking whatever model I am working on, whether it is improving something as small as the Placard Boards by scratch building them, adding a new sill to represent a

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Guys; I think it is important to note that as much as some egos in the PRR might have taken the "standard" concept and extended it to a belief that the PRR

I don't disagree with much of what Bruce asserts here, and I won't comment on the Pennsy duplex locos as I know relatively little about them (though I will say that when the PRR finally, and

Dennis Storzek wrote: At the time PRR was making this claim, in the first decade of the 20th century, one of their people visited the Great Western in Britain, and the story goes that the GWR

The boilers weren't hinged, except in the minds of model railroaders. The hinge was between the boiler and what amounted to a large feedwater heater. My take on the phrase "Standard Railroad of the

Jerry, Just to clarify, Elgin Car Shops is a custom building service and Yarmouth Model Works is the kit maker. It's a small detail, but one the tax department takes very seriously. Pierre

Bruce, Richard, Compare the performance of PRR's K4's to NYC's Hudson's. It's sorta like comparing a blacksmith job to cutting edge development but the K4 did the job. PRR mechanical department

Richard makes a couple of excellent points and one completely off the wall assertion.... I mean, seriously, comparing the PRR's mechanical department to "vesties"? Rather than calling people names,

Wow!, Bill, When I read your great posts about FGE topics, they make me all the more anxious to read your book. I hope we'll all be able to do that soon. Meanwhile, for myself, I've had a soft spot

Richard is correct but the story is at once much more complex and more interesting IMO, but I will try to lay out the short version. Initially the only cars the new FGE, Co. had were the cars about

Wouldn't this be a nice project for Elgin Car? The cars are interesting, conform to a nice long time period, are not railroad specific, and usually traveled in groups. Jerry Michels