Yes and no, fellows. Model railroad equipment can be scheduled the same way the jewelry, fine arts, cameras and firearms are often covered if you want the best insurance for them. I suspect that at

Begging the moderator's, and members, indulgence... Mike Brock has agreed to let a group of us meet after 10 PM Friday night to discuss opportunities for collaboration among railroad historical

Good tips and information, Don. Thanks for posting. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Cheers Tim Paul

On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 2:45 PM, Jared Harper <harperandbrown@...> wrote: I will be attending Prototype Rails in Cocoa Beach. Because of health issues I will be arriving Thursday afternoon and will

Ray Breyer returns to the DesignBuildOp blog with a file ofprototype data covering the announced road names of the new Accurail 36-footFowler box car models. In addition to modeling tips, Ray included

Hi Dave - I’d be happy to participate in your session. Dave Leider, our Soo Line Historical and Technical Society President, will also be at Cocoa Beach. I’m an Associate Editor for <the SOO>

This photo is from the Confessions of a Train Geek blog (http://blog.traingeek.ca/) and illustrateswhat years of service does to a gondola: https://tinyurl.com/ydcfolyh My question is,

Good afternoon group. Does any body know if Southwest Scale Productions is still in business. Their web site has been down for quite a while and I can't find any mention of their status. I'm

Currently on eBay are several NP lettering diagrams: tank car and express reefer for "fish loading only" ca. 1912. Bob Witt https://www.ebay.com/itm/302585464576?ul_noapp=true

Bob,   I've seen 2 or 3 dozen attempts to simulate "load damage" on gondolas (and even a few on box cars) - using heat from something like a soldering iron.  I've never seen one that I considered

Kudos to Ray Brewer! Your 26 page write up on the Fowler is something special. It made me dig out my Westerfield Fowler kit and get back to work on it. Jim🚂😊

Step into the "wayback" machine friends! I need to confirm a detail about the original IMWX boxcar kits. When first released the initial offering was a square corner Dreadnaught end? And then

Yep! Tom VanWormer Monument CO Pierre Oliver pierre.oliver@... [STMFC] wrote:

Pierre Oliver asked: “I need to confirm a detail about the original IMWX boxcar kits.When first released the initial offering was a square corner Dreadnaught end? And then sometime later they

Guy, That makes more sense. Which explains why CRMPG had a sq corner end on offer at fist. But I do have an IMWX kit with sq corner. So IMWX did the molds for both styles

W-corner was the first. The S-corner was later, and appeared to be something of a"quickie" piece of work, as the row of rivets on the side facing corner is very poorlyrendered. But it's all we've got,

Pierre I've never seen the CRMPG version - does it look better? At the veryleast it could be applied to the Intermountain 1937 body. You know the end I crave? An S-corner4-5 10'6" replacement for the

I imagine that the original CRMPG sq corner 5/5 dreadnaught end would more than satisfy your needs, however that pattern has disappeared over the years since it was rendered superfluous by

I think Tom Madden has made that 4-5 end, Tim. Tony Thompson