The PFE orange did fade toward yellow. There were certainly no 1920s yellow cars still around, as PFE shop records show.

Thanks for your answer Tony. Red Caboose did nice kits with beautiful screening. I hope the original owner was able to make money. On the subject of PFE reefers, the other day I saw a color Jack

I am looking at IC Employee Timetable for the Chicago Champaign Districts (Illinois Division) Number 59 Effective Tuesday, December 14, 1948. In the Special Instructions on page 21 it says

Just returned from the Enfield NERPM meet (formerly the eastern Collinsville meet) and there was a display of five (maybe six) built Ambroid or similar kits that were very appealing. Nope, not resin

I'm glad to hear that the artwork has been passed on and not lost forever. Jerry had some very unique decals that added greatly to the Southern Pacific modeler's "tool bag." I'm sure that Tichy will

Fred Jansz wrote: The lettering is not a good guide, because Red Caboose did a bunch of paint schemes; follow the height as you have done. And BTW, by 1950 there were precious few R-30-12 or

They just announced a bunch of PFE decals in multiple scales this week. Tichy Train Group > What's New Tichy Train Group > What's New View on

I too have heard that Tichy had acquired Jerry Glow's decal artwork months ago, from a reliable source in the hobby. Also, I was told that the decals that Tichy is printing are done on some sort of

Has anyone heard anymore of Don Tichy buying Jerry Glow's decal artwork? Rich Christie

>Some classic "junk" kits like the Ambroid ACF covered hopper kits are being offered, sometimes at premium prices. Screen roofwalks, ugh! Sealing the wood is no picnic these days either< H-mmm. LIke

---In STMFC@..., <tony@...> wrote : Tony Thompson wrote: Actually, be careful with this statement. The measured frictional resistance is vanishingly small between solid and roller bearings at

>Derailment photos are a great source of roof and underbody details. And >sometimes interiors. >Andy Let me try this again- Yahoo is acting up. Andy, This might be your shortest post ever

I spent 40+ years on four different railroads and it was Roller Bearing or Friction Bearing on each of them. Dick Haave

>Derailment photos are a great source of roof and underbody details. And >sometimes interiors. >Andy

Xcuse me for my igorance. What I read in your answer is that the ones lettered for R-30-12-9 are also the wrong ones? I have ten R-30-9 kits that seem to have the right height (all double herald, LA

I found that when it comes to sliced dead trees, I'm not my dad or my grandfather. Even if the prototype is wood, I'd rather make it out of plastic. I have yet to actually do this. I had planned to

At 09:44 AM 6/4/2016 -0700, you wrote: Actually, be careful with this statement. The measured frictional resistance is vanishingly small between solid and roller bearings at all speeds above

Derailment photos are a great source of roof and underbody details. And sometimes interiors. Andy

I've been buying on ebay since 1999, 99.8% positive results. I've occasionally done the "best offer" thing when it was offered. Sometimes the seller already has a minimum price and if you meet or

Brad, I was just going to make the same reply, so I'll just tag on to yours. I was in the operating (conductor, trainmaster) department and I worked with carmen & others that dealt directly with