Several RPM meets are ahead on the 2017 calendar. A summary hasbeen posted on the DesignBuildOp blog. http://designbuildop.hansmanns.org/2016/12/18/2017-rpm-events/ Eric Hansmann El

Bill and others, I just uploaded my method for making small brass strips mentioned earlier this week. You can find it here: http://tinyurl.com/huhn88w Scott Haycock please post Bill Vaughn

HO thanks, eric

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the STMFC group. File : /Making Small Brass Strips from Sheet Stock.pdf

Clark Propst asked: "I just finished decaling an Athearn hopper I modified to look more like a CB&Q car, as per Jerry Hamsmith’s decals instructions. I cobbled together a couple of leftover resin

Clark, Don't know if these may help. I also have Jerry's decal set but have not looked at the info it contains, but here you go: Westerfield has a couple of Hopper detailing kits. Rich

Were any of the Carbon County Railway hopper cars of this same design? I know they had the same double clasp brakes as found on other United States Steel road hoppers. Tim O'Connor

Some did go to Union RR, but I do not know which ones, or when ( or if in list time frame) off the top of my head. Probably not what you are looking for. CJT Broken Arrow

On 11/22/2016 5:50 AM, destorzek@... [STMFC] wrote: Similar to the red used on the original ATSF E1?????? -- Jon MillerFor me time stopped in 1941Digitrax

On 12/18/2016 9:14 AM, TIMOTHY O'CONNOR timboconnor@... [STMFC] wrote: Cleaning brass? But first we'd have to find out how it affects soldered fixtures as well as possibly super

I don't know if this has many modeling applications, but I was astounded to see this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7GoRQBvghk Tim O'Connor

I just finished decaling an Athearn hopper I modified to look more like aCB&Q car, as per Jerry Hamsmith’s decals instructions. I cobbled together acouple of leftover resin bits to represent the

Yes, I built one and my friend Mike Moore bought two or three? Seems yougot one P2K carbody to cut and add resin splices. Decals were from Micro Scale,I believe? Mike and I got together about tree

Jim I do not have the stock car kit' however, I do have an NP reefer InterMountain kit I am building now. In this kit, Stan provided only resin sides and ends. IM roof and underframe to be used.

Bob That would make an interesting model thanks for sharing. Paul Doggett UK Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

It stripped my attachments... Damn it! Greg Eventually all things merge into one and a river runs throughit. Norman Maclean In a message dated 12/18/2016 12:09:16 A.M. Pacific Standard

Jim and all in context: Jim Hayes writes: "Browsing thru my unfinished stock, I opened a P2K Mather stock car kit which contained a Mather kit which I had sliced and spliced into a 50' car.

Stan must have sold a modest amount of the 50' Mather stock cars. He approached me for some kits, as at that time I had a lot of those cheap P2K kits from dealer close-outs. He later came back for

The car is assigned to Oldsmobile Lansing Mich. for sheet metal parts. The car is listed on page 60 (page 94 of the PDF) in Freight Cars Assigned to Special Service on the MCRR dated June 1947. The

The January 1998 issue of MR had an article by Jim Teese on building a car from 2 P2K kits. The prototype shown was a Nickel Plate car photographed in May 1966. I have an almost unreadable copy