> All of this Gondola talk is giving me goosebumps and reminds me I pick up a set of resin sides to be used with the Accurail kit to model a Seaboard Airline 41-ft gon with 13 ribs. It is available

all of this Gondola talk is giving me goosebumps and reminds me I pick up a set of resin sides to be used with the Accurail kit to model a Seaboard Airline 41-ft gon with 13 ribs. It is available form

Thanks for sharing this excellent resource, Dennis. I used to deal with Hub Jewelers Supply on Washington St. in Boston but they seem to have disappeared some years ago. Frei appears to be at least as

Maybe some of us are wondering why this general question is being askedin the first place. A search of the group with "Accurail gondolaprototype" coughs up 118 messages that contain those three words,

Hi Schuyler, Well, now the idea's back on the list ... got one you'd like done? Best, AL B.

Jack Burgess wrote: Among the tools on Richard H's workbench were a pair of pin vises, with the tap drill at one end and the tap at the other, for 2-56 and 3-48. He had a couple of other pin

Whoops, thanks Al, transpositions R us. (I could NEVER be an accountant!) I initiated that because it was available decorated for DL&W, and that was a Foobie. I kind of hoped that it would

A small correction: the file's called "Accurail 41' gon.xls". 14' sounds like a gondola version of those old-time Walthers single-truck passenger cars :-) . The notion at the time was that we (as a

In the 1920 film Get Out and Get Under Harold Iloyd somehow drives his caronto a flat car of an LA&SL train. It’s pulled by #8 Atlantic andconsists of Harriman standard LA&SL truss rod and steel

Hi. Do you mean the bets are off center Or crooked when you look at him from the side. If off-center you can't do much. If crooked,you have to fiddle to get them straight. Hope this helped! mark

On 11 May 2011, I uploaded in the files area an Excel spreadsheet regarding this car. It lists all the road names in which Accurail offered the car and a categorization as to whether it was

Tim wrote: This thread inspired me to go down and look -- I have 12 pin vises, and 3 of them are double ended. They're all loaded (and labeled with little bits of tape) with various drills and taps. I

This thread inspired me to go down and look -- I have 12 pin vises, and 3 of them are double ended. They're all loaded (and labeled with little bits of tape) with various drills and taps. I hate to

The Accurail model represents the AAR 41" gondola built with Dreadnaught ends. I am using the ends that came with the kit to model an Illinois Central GS gon using the Detail Associates kit and the DA

Ed… It sounds like the pin vice is one of those with a pair of collets on each end. Instead, consider this pin vise: http://www.modelexpo-online.com/product.asp?ITEMNO=MT1079 Not expensive,

You need to get not only your hands into the box but also your forearms in order to reach things. (To use the booth, I set things up, and then place the model in the box, close the lid. After putting

I would like to have an Accurail 41' steel gondola in my fleet. Not just any road name, what prototype is this model based on?

With the Shop Vac I will need something to cover an air inlet so will look for that too. Note that I just cut a hole in the box and shoved a vacuum attachment into the hole and caulked the cracks

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