Joel, IM kits have only been available direct from IM for several years now. While there still may be some kits floating around hobby shop shelves, train shows and eBay, hobby shops cannot (AFAIK)

I have the latest Tahoe Truck, the aforementioned 40-ton Scullin truck available for purchase. Has Barber lateral motion device. The price is $4.00/pair, plus shipping of $2.85/ order. Note: the

Woops! Forgot the IC, who the truck was developedfor. gary From: STMFC@...[mailto:STMFC@...] On Behalf Of Gary Roe Sent:Saturday, February 01, 2014 6:12 PM To:STMFC@... Subject: RE: [STMFC] Good

Brian, The sheet lists the followingusers: C&NW DL&W NP SL-SF NWX WRX NADX NATX gary roe quincy, illinois From: STMFC@...[mailto:STMFC@...] On Behalf Of Brian carlson Sent:Saturday, February

Gary did he provide a list of users? Bummer, his stuff is excellent! Brian Carlson

Good news is thatI got a mailing from Tahoe Model Works today announcing their newesttruck. It is a 40 Ton ARA with Barber Lateral Motion Detail. The badnews is that it is to be their next to last

Greetings, just arrived from Columbus Ohio, saw the grandsons. Most of all The TrainStation has some of the reefers yet! Purchased two. They do ship so you might want to call first and they are on

I dug up the thread in the erielack mail list and discovered my error. Thanks Eric. Disposing of the PS1s seems to have been a daft decision, not the only one in that era. Ben

 Yes, that's where the PS-1s they ordered new went,but apparently not the ex NWSW ones. Those 8 cars remain the most annoying holein LNE dospositions. Eric

IIRC, the suggestion in an old discussion I dug up on this was that the PS1s that went to the L&NE went to the SOO ? Does that ring any bells? Ben Scanlon London, UK

 I have NYSW 403-435 to MON 541-565 in 1956 and LNE9051-9058 in 1956-57. Only NYSW 401-402 remained. The mystery is, what happenedto the LNE cars when they sold off all their newer equipment a few

That sounds about right. From memory there were 11 36' cars left in 1959, but having recently sold just about all their their PS1s to the Monon and I believe, the L&NE, I suppose the NYS&W had little

Hi All While we are talking about CNW boxcar colors and TCP. Cansomeone recommend a TCP paint that would be suitable for the Westerfield CNWFowler boxcars? An article in The O Scale Resource states

Tony, I second that opinion. I bought the yellow and green depotcolors (need to get the trim brown too) as well as Daylight Red and Orange(which is also PFE Orange) and they look perfect as well. I

Paul Here's a prototype lettering document you can buy http://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=13677 Found it with Google Image search. Tim O'Connor

Norm Buckhart wrote: And Rick Galazzo at TCP has been calling on other experts for color information too. I shared with him my SP color chips (Bowles Color Drifts) for SP depot colors, and can

Fenton Wells comments- >I've never used these paints [TCP Tru Color] so maybe this is a good time to >try. I've got to figure out where to buy them. These are indeed extremely fine paints; very

Ya know, I saw an incredible variety of TCP "box car red" colors for sale at the Big E train show, and I even bought a few bottles. But I basically chose them by COLOR, not road name. WHEN are people

Thanks Richard, Someone sent me the 1946 & 1952 AAR Code of Rules on lettering the aircylinders. I model 1950 and it showed the info as you mentioned and the diagramsfor it. Paul Hillman

Richard Hendrickson wrote: Most lettering drawings for railroads will say something like "stenciling to conform to instructions shown in Interchange Rule No. 60." Maybe Guy WIlber or someone can