The question here is mainly "are old issues of Mainline Modeler still pertinent to today's modeler?" I think the answer is yes, for two reasons. First, the reproduction quality of the photos was

---In STMFC@..., <proto48@...> wrote : Ready-to-Run models and highly accurate resin kits killed any thoughts of developing the Cadre of readers who would contribute worthy articles. Gene

What I recall, and miss, about MM was the how to focused articles demonstrating skills and techniques for model building. Scratchbuilding with styrene, harvesting rivets, soldering, numerous articles

The WrighTrak produces a resin kit w/Banana taper ends good for FGE cars built in 1955 and 1957 built by FGE, WFE and BRE. Only decals I know of are Microscale set for BREX. The FGE/WFE/BRE System

Bob Hundman was a crusader of sorts. He greatly admired Bob Brown's Gazette. A number of the magazine features like heavy coated stock and an even heavier cover stock, modeling techniques, lots of

Todd Sullivan wrote: I think this is correct. As further info, FGE and PFE were working together on this development, as I was told in my interview with Earl Hopkins, retired PFE CMO at the

Having done a few drawings for Mainline, I can say that when drawing up a subject, you're never in possession of all that you need. Experience can sometimes get you to guess, sometimes you just leave

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Pacific HO produced a flat model in plastic and white metal with wire grabs, separate ladders and full brake rigging of the first variant of the mechanical

---In STMFC@..., <tony@...> wrote : I agree with those who say the impact on the hobby was immense. He did prototype coverage in a way undreamed of at MR and RMC (then and to some extent now),

Swift's early mechanical reefers were in the red scheme with white eves, like the ice reefers. Brad Smith Sent from Brad's iPod

Joel, How about breaking this out into a bit more coherent set of questions... 1) Did mechanical refrigerator cars exits in the era of this list (pre-1960) The answer to that one would be yes, so

In addition to the various kits and r-t-r plastic models, there are several brass models of the NYC standard caboose. LMB offered the first one many years ago. More recent models have come from

As Ray said American Model Builders has a laser cut kit of the 19000. See my article in the 1st Quarter 2015 NYCentral Modeler, about building the AMB kit.

I've been interested in this thread, being the possessor of all published issues of MM. I realize many don't know, or have forgotten, that Bob Hundman explicitly began by recognizing both the

I’m missing two just issues (I suspect one wasn’t actually published and the other is just some date in from the late years that I havn’t yet found). The scratch building techniques are

Joel, Which cars? If you are asking about mechanical reefers in general, then absolutely. I'm sure somebody here will cite experimental cars from way back, but in general, they began to

I replied directly to Mak's question on the relavalance of Mainline Modeler in today's world. I wanted to share with him photos of a model that I did in the 70's to one that was recently completed.

Ben- This is true of most if not all published plans…..including railroad and manufacturer general arrangement drawings, no matter how well presented. Way back in the beginning of my careers I

I asked the Chessie Shop if they would post a sample to view the quality. They said they would but I'm not seeing it just yet. They did send me a sample PDF so it's available. If interested I would

Ray Breyer wrote: "One caveat: while prolific, the plans in Mainline Modeler are generally good, but almost always suspect in some way. It's OK to use them as a general guide for modeling work, but!