I have three freight car placard cards whose use I am trying to understand. All are from the Colorado & Southern. I am hoping that someone who is knowledgeable on early 1900's freight train handling

hello when its come to body putty go the auto body supply store in your town buy a can ever coat its a two part putty one part putty other is the harder its about 25.00 dollar and can and that will

Devcon 2-ton white epoxy had been sold in hardware stores for decades. A few years ago, the squeeze tube variety stopped being marketed, though a twin syringe version, though more expensive, was still

--- In STMFC@..., <stmfc@...> wrote: Wait a minute, brake fluid attacks rubber? Man we are in it deep as the brake lines on most vehicles, including the steam era ones, are rubber. Yeah, but since

Chuck Well, technically it's butadiene in ABS, while there is no natural "rubber" (latex) in brake hoses -- they are all syntheticpolymers. Anyway, brake fluid attacks ABS. Tim At 9/6/2013 01:15 PM

There's a color photo of two of the Barrett granulated slate tank/hoppers on the last page of the Gerard Bernet soft-cover book, Memories of Eastern Pennsylvania Railroading. The caption says 1959,

Wait a minute, brake fluid attacks rubber? Man we are in itdeep as the brake lines on most vehicles, including the steam era ones, arerubber. Chuck Hladik In a message dated 9/6/2013 12:30:21 P.M.

Brake fluid attacks ABS -- Kato uses ABS. It won't affect ordinary polystyrene which contains no "rubber".

It is available on Amazon in sizes ranging from 1/2 ounce tubes to 4.5 ounce bottles. Rich Orr

Help? Ok, so I go to Dollar Tree to get some of this stuff and find out they have about six different kinds on the shelves. Can anyone be a little more specific regarding exactly what the label

HI All, Just posted a Piedmont & Northern box car photo that was on a Georgia Car & Loco sales brochure. For those that may not be aware GC&L was one of the largest used railroad equipment dealers

I googled "Devcon 2-Ton white epoxy" and, of course, got a ton of hits. If someone has this epoxy nearby, would you please post the Devcon part number? Thanks much, Brian Chapman Evansdale, Iowa

By total accident rather late Wed. evening it was found that there is a new "Mid-Atlantic RPM Meet" being held on 13 & 14 Sept. just over an hour away from where I live when here in Virginia and not

Tim, I thought the worst stuff I have ever tried to get to strip was ATLASlocomotive paints and it did the trick, well worth the buck to experiment with. If you recall Jim and I had mentioned his

Sam Less time would have work as well, I leave mine overnight. But as my goodfriend Jim Evans had mentioned it doesn't work on all paints but we haveonly found one company that we can say that

Greg I'd never heard of this store before, but I just found out there's one just a couple miles from here. I think I'll check this stuff out. The most unstrippable models so far in my experience

Hi Ted Great to see you back up and running as the decals come on line I will be ordering quite a few, need the Caswells in particular. Thanks for the info and all the very best of luck to you with

Welcome back Ted – you’ve been missed!! All the best – Clive Riley.

At the risk of jumping in on a “me too” post… Me too! In fact, there are two freight car articles in a row if you consider the continuing DL&W/C&IM caboose series. In the spirit of equal