Charles, Final got to read your blog post on the Tichy 4021. Very nicely done I hope you will continue to pull more kits off the shelf. Mark Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 7:49 PM To:

I think some of the Microscale decal sets have this. This was common wording above the pilot steps on many locomotives. Sure would be nice to have an ALPS printer, or something like it (that can

Once Gerry Glow gets back up to speed he my be interested. I would give him a few months as he will need some time dealing with the recent loss of his brother. fenton wells -- Fenton Wells 3047

ECMXX, actually. The photographer misidentified the reporting marks as ECNXX. Is the 5-letter reporting mark a Mexican thing? First time I've noticed it. Thanks for the IDs, and to Tim for finding

Say what, Gene????? An M&StL box car turned into a billboard?? But I thought those were outlawed bak in the 1930's!!!! VBG Ah well, some would call the New Haven and Bangor & Aroostock red,

Or you could get our a mill file and...... Scott Haycock ,___

Jack Mullen writes (but didn't sign his post): "I'm puzzled by the references to 156# rail. PRR's 152# and 155# sections are documented in (prototype) engineering literature and vendor's catalogs,

I'm puzzled by the references to 156# rail. PRR's 152# and 155# sections are documented in (prototype) engineering literature and vendor's catalogs, but I'm unaware of 156#. Is this just a typo

well, I can't disagree with you Dennis. To answer the "other software" question, I use two programs - both free - to convert and scale a Sketchup file. So first I export a sketchup file as a 3d

Well, for some reason I had no trouble enlarging the images, and the tank cars were as follows: DNCXX 5509 8K gal. AC&F Type 11 TRNX 12001 16K gal. Santa Fe Tk-M built by GATC in 1942 DNCXX 2719

Thanks for the explanation. It would indeed be frustrating to find out at the end that there is an error(or many) somewhere, and not know where to find it! Scott Haycock Modeling Tarheel country in

I think Rob's problem lies elsewhere. Let me preface this comment with the confession that I am by no means an expert on Sketchup... In fact, I've never used the software, and all I know I've learned

Hello folks- I'm currently scratchbuilding a Pacific Electric boxcar based on these

There are a couple of good stories about the [M&StL] box car mentioned above that should be told sometime. Gene Green No time like the present, Gene. Schuyler

Mark

I wrote: Well, that doesn't make a lot of sense! Yahoo dropped two instances of "Save as" enclosed in greater than/less than brackets. They belong where I put the double asterisks above. Tom M.

Good thing that Rail Alphabet hasn't entered the discussion yet...(grin). Steve Lucas.

Don't know if this will pertain using Sketchup... I design in 1:1 because I work from prototype drawings. When I'm satisfied with the part or assembly I <Save as> an STL file. Also 1:1. I bring that

So you would output your final object to another program for scaling? What other programs would you use? Scott Haycock Modeling Tarheel country in the Land of Enchantm ent

yes - but if using Sketchup to scale the drawing to HO, you can also run into the 6 decimal place rounding problem if you are not careful. Dividing most large numbers by 87.1 seldom produces neat 6