I think there are a couple more model railroad uses for distilled water; thinning paints when water is the appropriate thinner, and soaking decals. The latter is especially true for those of us who

IMO, just about any shade of orange will work if you are modeling a train of PFE reefers as they appeared in the "wild". There are many color photos of such trains and the number of different

Dick Harley at Naperville had many PFE reefers on display; he prefers the P-B-L "Star" brand color for PFE orange to others. The Tru-Color to my eye seems a tiny bit off, but in the past I've mixed

Bob, By 1950 some 9000 series cars were repainted all mineral red (including trucks) with the 54" GNR (Great Northern Railway) herald. Those not repainted after 1947 would have black ends and roof

Scott Pitzer says: "Somewhere along the line, the formatting for an apostrophe was just too much to handle, so you get that instead." I like the Chinese answer better. Mike Brock

Off Topic, but &#39 is the ASCII code for an apostrophe. So Yahoo had a problem with the HTML conversion to what should have "I'm". HTH Mark Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 9:34 PM To:

Somewhere along the line, the formatting for an apostrophe was just too much to handle, so you get that instead. Scott Pitzer On Oct 30, 2012, at 6:34 PM, "John" <golden1014@ [Non-text portions of

Good Evening All, Andy Laurent and I have completed our second post in a series that examines features of prototype waybills. Those interested can find it

STEWART--As you may have already gathered, the folks involved in Cocoa Beach are, to a person, kind, outgoing, helpful, and easy to get to know. You'll quickly feel among friends even if you don't

Hi Stephan, I don't knows what all that jibberish is either---something added by the Chinese as they review all our emails, of course. Nonetheless I got my flat car painted today and thanks to you

I built this kit a couple of years ago, painted all sub-assemblies with off-the-shelf paints from spray cans, without masking. Orange was Model Master "Go Mango 1969-70" (different from plain "Go

You must know somebody... I see that it’s blocking the main at Dale... Hope it moves before January. :>) Bill Schneider Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 8:27 PM To: STMFC@... Subject:

I have uploaded 3 photos of my recently completed F&C GN truss rod box car in the album GN Truss Rod Box Car. I have to say that I don't understand why some people's photos seem to take such a long

Hi Stuart, I live near Sacramento. I depart at about noon on Wednesday, arriving very late on Wednesday evening (~11PM). As Bruce pointed out, there are Op Sessions on Thursday, and

I'm having the same problem down here in south Georgia. My local hobby shop (not the one in Savannah) cannnot get any. And I hear the hobby shop in Savannah (which is reputed to be going out of

I sent a quick message to Paul Graf about this and this was his response: "We are in the midst of changing track suppliers, and most of our track is in short supply. The first container of track has

Problems with China. Dennis Williams/Owner http://www.resinbuilders4u.com/ ________________________________ To: "STMFC@..." <STMFC@...> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 4:43

They announced a shipment last week - one container of all types of track, turnouts etc. The supply is very limited. Website is down due to Sandy. Rich Orr

They haven't imported it in some time. Not sure why, maybe lack of factory time. Wish they still made it here. Brian Carlson

Anyboy know why Atlas code 83 is hard to find? Have they stopped making it? Jim