Curt, Very good images. Lots of details. Also very light rail and no tie plates. Thanks for sharing these wonderful images. Now I wonder just where something like this might fit on the

I've uploaded my photos of the small coal dock that existed at Auburn, Alabama (on the Western Railway of Alabama). The color shots date from about 1973 (when I started at Auburn), and the b&w about

I've used the stainless tubing for a handrail "union" on several tank cars. My cutting technique is to put the handrail wire inside the tubing, then cut off both tubing and wire in one cut with an

Brass is very springy and it is hard to get it to behave, even with a good forming fixture, which Tom and I have. Tom I misread the specs on the tubing you are using. If mine EVER comes, we should be

---In STMFC@..., <riverman_vt@...> wrote : > Why the use of the two different types of wire, Tom? Is the stainless wire > to stiff/difficult to make the required curvature for the end and bend to

---In STMFC@..., <fgexbill@...> wrote : > I really like the stiffness the SS wire would bring to the sides, a vulnerable area. > I ordered my .019 ID SS tubing from "Small Parts," now "Amazon

​Clark, I enjoyed the video of what was close to your final operating session--or possibly your very last. A few years earlier, I appreciated the detailed article in RMC of your version of the

Thanks Tom! That's what I more or less expected I guess once the caris painted and weathered the union will not stand out as much. A smallprice to pay for greater durability! Tim O'Connor Here's a

Why the use of the two different types of wire, Tom? Is the stainless wire to stiff/difficult to make the required curvature for the end and bend to meet that on the sides? Are we speaking of

I don’t know about genius, just prototype modeling. I plan to talk aboutbuilding a portion of it at Naperville this year and will talk ideas for it’sreplacement at the St Louis RPM. I’m told

I really like the stiffness the SS wire would bring to the sides, a vulnerable area. I ordered my .019 ID SS tubing from "Small Parts," now "Amazon something" and it was supposed to come yesterday. It

Here's a link to a photo of a stainless steel tubing union joining a brass end handrail to a stainless side handrail on a Resin car Works acid tank car shell. The union is 0.020" I.D. and the

The old blue box Mantua reefer kits had paper sides. You'd buy the kit and then select the sides from the dealer's supply. The problem with the one on eBay is that one side was trimmed wrong. The

Of almost every piece of model train rolling stock, no matter how generic, there was at least one real-world car that a given model was based on and therefore "reasonably" accurately depicted. I try

I'm not that familiar with old Mantua, but that looks to be factory, which I would assume disqualifies it from a chuckle. Thanks! Brian Ehni (Sent from my iPhone)

This is a great reminder that there are lots of folks on the other end of the modeling spectrum. A friend of mine sold an AHM caboose on ebay for something over $60 and bragged about it for years.

I just posted a scan of a Heated Car Placard issued by BREX and dated 12-3-1930. Bill Welch

st our recent West Side reunion there was a hopper train, 6 cars, that had operating hopper doors, in HO scale. eric bracher

That old kit is the rare "max headroom" ice reefer. Sent from my overpriced graham cracker

So is: ... a steam era HyCube? Take Care, Brian R. Termunde Midvale, UT "My Train of Thought left the station without me!"