main@RealSTMFC.groups.io

Re: Very Small Chain

Everyone, initially I am going to experiment w/0.010 wire and go to 0.008 if necessary. For the brake lever attachment I like to use a very short section of wire attached thru the lever that works

By Bill Welch · #153676 ·

Re: Very Small Chain

Bill: When I need fine, soft wire to make a loop (or other things), I use UTC Ultra Wire. It's a fly fishing (tying) product, and pretty cheap. Sizes: XS = 0.0045", S = 0.0065", BR (=brassie) =

By Dave Parker · #153675 ·

Re: Very Small Chain

I think you folks would also like a single strand of the stranded copper wire you find in an ordinary electrical extension cord. That copper wire is about the same size and a single about to be

By mwbauers · #153686 ·

Re: Very Small Chain

Hello Bill, the smallest wire (for hobby purposes) I know of is the Detail Associates #2501. It is just .006" brass. I am using this for bell and whistle ropes and several other appliances. It is

By vapeurchapelon · #153674 ·

Re: Trainfest announcements

Fenton, Could you please provide me with Dr. Campbell's address? I'd like to try my hand again at kitbashing since my stroke. Thanks much. Larry Sexton ---- "O Fenton Wells srrfan1401@...

By Larry Sexton · #153673 ·

Re: Trainfest announcements

Eric, great blog about the Accurail 36 ft boxcars. They are a wonderfully needed product for the hobby. Attached are photos of the bash we did for the Winston Salem NC RPM in October. We are deeply

By O Fenton Wells · #153672 ·

2017 Chicagoland RPM Photos

I found this link on another yahoo group to a photo album posted by John Gillies of the 2917 Chicagoland

By gtws00 · #153671 ·

Re: Trainfest announcements

Accurail: 6 foot door Fowler boxcars. FINALLY in mass-produced plastic. I'll have a piece on them on Eric's blog in a week or two, once I finish up the latest Modeler's Notebook. Ray Breyer Elgin, IL

By Ray Breyer · #153670 ·

Trainfest announcements

I know sometimes new steam era models or paint schemes are announced at Trainfest Anything this year? Brian J. Carlson

By Brian Carlson · #153669 ·

New Kit Release by Mask Island Decals Inc.

Mask Island Decals Inc. is pleased to announce the release of the Rock Island Pulp Wood car kit, (wood Rack). The kit contains body, deck, trucks, no wheels, grab irons and under frame parts, and

By hubert mask · #153668 ·

Re: other gondola to box car rebuilds

It can go the other way, too. In 1937 when the Soo Line gave up owning their reefers and began leasing from URTX, they rebuilt the newest reefers, Haskell & Barker, 1921, into flatcars, adding channel

By destorzek@... · #153667 ·

Re: 1920s standard freight car lengths for side tracks

Do we know what period/era 40 feet was considered a standard car length for measuring or describing side and yard tracks? That kind of implies 36-38-foot-long cars or a mix of longer box and gondola

By Al Kresse <water.kresse@...> · #153666 ·

other gondola to box car rebuilds

Neither gons nor boxcars, but similar idea: the CPR converted 260 flat cars to auto-boxcars of the 296000-296102 and 296103 -- 296259 series; - re-building in July 1916 - February 1918, with IH: 9'

By Robert kirkham · #153665 ·

Re: other gondola to box car rebuilds

Hi Eric and List Members, Thank you Eric for the very interesting link. Whata wonderful model scene that MEC unloading operation would make! I notice the page has a line that reads "Bancroft&

By Claus Schlund \(HGM\) · #153664 ·

Re: other gondola to box car rebuilds

Eric Hansmann asks, Well, not a gon-to-box conversion but similar: in 1929, the B&M rebuilt 100 steel gondolas into their 29000 series pulp racks with two side doors. I have a bit of a writeup on

By Earl Tuson · #153663 ·

Re: LNE Rolling Stock

SAL rebuild 100 former composite gone into auto cars, the A class (first 50) and the A-1 class, (second 50) in 1936 and 1937. I have an ICC report the composite tons that says by 1940 that they

By golden1014 · #153662 ·

Re: LNE Rolling Stock

OK, more confusion. One of the guys here sent me a nice photo of one of the LNE composite boxcars. Photo was taken in early 1950's from the autos in the background. Has an interesting round roof.

By John Sykes III · #153661 ·

I have the following data pack... the topic is weathering

Hi List Members, I'm cleaning out some stuffI no longer need. I have the following data pack... the topic isweathering - covers flat car decks, but also for other freight cars andsteam locos. Some

By Claus Schlund \(HGM\) · #153660 ·

Re: other gondola to box car rebuilds - was LNE Rolling Stock

Oops. I just re-read Bob Witt’s noteson the SAL automobile cars built from gondolas. Those seem to be a DepressionEra project. But the LNE, WM, and W&LE conversions were not. Eric

By Eric Hansmann · #153659 ·

OT - Looking for an Index to the MPHS magazine "The Eagle"

Hi Folks, I’m looking for an article that may have been published in the Missouri Pacific Historical Society magazine “The Eagle”. Does anyone know of an index that I may

By Aley, Jeff A · #153658 ·

Messages