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Re: Battleship Gon After Many Battles -- almost a book

Tony, For me personally, it is the quality of photos that is the kicker. POD's, unless on color paper, really doesn't hack it much of the time. Al

By water.kresse@... · #143197 ·

Re: Battleship Gon Book Orders

Guys, I appreciate your offer. It is not my call anymore. It needs the C&O or N&W HS folks to get re-interested in doing the layout all over again. Two of the three of us have moved on to other

By water.kresse@... · #143196 ·

Re: Chad Boas 40 DD PS1 Re: Santa Fe Bx-26 box car kit

Just a note. Mask Island Decals have the decals for three versions of the flat cars, Milwaukee road combo door and the CW&C by Chad Boas. Hubert Mask Mask Island Decals Inc. On Jun 21, 2016, at 8:23

By hubert mask · #143195 ·

Re: Battleship Gon Book Orders

I will buy one! Claus Schlund

By Claus Schlund \(HGM\) · #143194 ·

Re: Battleship Gon After Many Battles -- almost a book

Al Kresse wrote: Al, something like this is readily made into a printed book. You can make it up as a Xeroxed copy, and print them as needed at your local copy shop; or better yet, go online and

By Tony Thompson · #143193 ·

Re: Battleship Gon After Many Battles -- almost a book

Al, I would have interest [estimated cost?] and would encourage you to reach out to Rich Yoder who made a run of these in O scale. Rich could likely offer some help in reaching his customers for

By Brad Andonian · #143192 ·

Battleship Gon Book Orders

Al, do you want us to pledge to buy the book? I will buy one. gary laakso South of Mike Brock

By gary laakso · #143191 ·

Re: FW: DECAL UPDATE - ALL SCALES

My compliments to Donald Tichy for doing this. There definitely are some former Jerry Glow STMFC sets that I should order. Steve Lucas

By midrly · #143190 ·

Re: Chad Boas 40 DD PS1 Re: Santa Fe Bx-26 box car kit

Paul thanks for posting that scan. George Toman

By gtws00 · #143189 ·

Re: Chad Boas 40 DD PS1 Re: Santa Fe Bx-26 box car kit

Bill, the double door kits from Chad for the Milwuakee were built in 1958. George Toman

By gtws00 · #143188 ·

Re: Battleship Gon After Many Battles -- almost a book

We (three members of C&O and N&W Historical Society) had thrown together an approximate 64-page book on the C&O, N&W, and VGN 100-120-ton CLASS 6-wheel trucked gondola cars with Hundman Drawings on

By water.kresse@... · #143187 ·

FW: DECAL UPDATE - ALL SCALES

Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 1:02 PM To: Aley, Jeff A <jeff.a.aley@...> Subject: DECAL UPDATE - ALL SCALES TICHY TRAIN GROUP INC 6/21/2016 Dear Modeler: We have acquired the Jerry Glow

By Aley, Jeff A · #143186 ·

Re: Battleship Gon After Many Battles

Look here: https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/rollingstock.php?Road=VGN+Rwy&Cat=Freight Jim Brewer Glenwood MD

By James F. Brewer <jfbrewer@...> · #143200 ·

Re: Battleship Gon After Many Battles

You might try the N&W archives asthey too had these cars. (I think) Chuck Hladik In a message dated 6/21/2016 3:19:24 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,STMFC@... writes:

By Charles Hladik · #143185 ·

Re: Battleship Gon After Many Battles

Those huge Battleship gons are really impressive. Thanks for the photo link to the abused car. And I suppose none of these has been preserved, correct? I have 46 of the old brass NPP models (which I

By vapeurchapelon · #143184 ·

MILW gondolas in 1930 - need paint and lettering help

Hi List Members, I'm making an attempt to model a MILW 50-foot composite gon as shown in the builders photo linked below... https://c3.staticflickr.com/8/7411/27206420754_687cdddd5a_h.jpg You can

By Claus Schlund \(HGM\) · #143183 ·

Re: Source for Brass Structural Shapes for Scratch Building

I’ve been buying brass shapes from Special Shapes for a couple of years now: http://www.specialshapes.com/17.html You can’t order online but just call them…fast service, etc. Jack

By Jack Burgess <jack@...> · #143182 ·

Re: Source for Brass Structural Shapes for Scratch Building

Bill, I've had good luck at my local (ratherlarge) True Value Hardware store. No discount but what I need. Chuck Hladik Rutland Railroad Virginia Division Rustburg, Virginia, just outside of

By Charles Hladik · #143181 ·

Source for Brass Structural Shapes for Scratch Building

Does anyone have a source for brass structural shapes other than K&S or MicroMark? K&S seems to be reducing the range of shapes and sizes available in the past few years and the range from MicroMark

By webotkin · #143180 ·

Re: An Easy kit-bash using the Accurail 8-panel SS car

The Accurail model makes a decent stand-in for the Central Vermont 43000-43058 (single-door rebuilds of the original 42000 series double-door cars). Biggest difference between the Accurail model and

By Marty McGuirk · #143179 ·

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