Andy and I have it worked out. Thanks Tim Meyer

Most of the Fishbelly type reefers in the FGE/WFE/BRE/NX System were operated by the Burlington Route and carried BREX, CX and FWDX reporting marks but FGE owned several groups (originally B&O, FEC,

Hi Tim, et al., I’ve noticed that Groups.IO sometimes doesn’t show the sender’s email address, and when it does, it frequently, but not always, half masks senders’ email addresses, thus

Right after "reply to group" is "reply to sender" if you get via email. Same thing as private. -- Jon MillerFor me time stopped in 1941Digitrax Chief/Zephyr systems,

Hi Tim--Even easier, on this group's Groups.io website if you click on Reply to Andy's message, at the lower right corner of your reply box is a button marked Private. That will send your msg to Andy

Andy's email is midcentury(at)sbcglobal.net substituting of course a @ for the (at) Bill Welch

Andy I can not see your email address. Tim Meyer

Jim, Robert Smaus did a project railroad based on the Los Angeles harbor area for MR. The series ran from December 1990 to March 1991. He wrote briefly about building his own cotton bales using real

http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/123177968000 http://modeltechstudios.com/hoscaledetailcottonbalesetof4finished.aspx http://dixiecentralrailroad.blogspot.com/2010/02/002-02-four-way-cotton-gin-hells-bales

According to http://slideplayer.com/slide/10482349/ In 1901 a cotton bale was 5-5 1/2 feet long, about 30 inches thick and 40-48 inches wide, weighting 400-500 pounds. As compression came into play,

I came across AAR Pamphlet No. 36, issued in 1925 and revised in 1950. This pamphlet was titled "Rules Regulating The Safe Loading of Bulk Grain in Closed Cars". A statement from this document says,

They also fit the Branchline (now Atlas) kits without any modification. Bill Welch

Over the last 20 years (or so) I have sold over 1700 Red Caboose '3 AAR rec. panel box car roofs. I don't need to remind the good folks of this list about the improvement of this roof over

http://www.cotton.org/tech/bale/bale-description.cfm the attached link says it would fit; don't know if that is the same standards used at the time of the photo. Roger Hinman

would be a good item for 3D printing - they don't have to be smooth. :-)

The six color photos I have show a dark green. I have not opened the paint as yet to see ho light it is. Bill Welch

Correct. No NP freight cars were painted NP "Loewy" LightGreen. Some NP cars were painted in another shade of light green (precursor to "BN CascadeGreen") but none of these cars were. HOWEVER - Bill

My belief is that for the NP DF box cars and RBL's you want the Loewy-scheme dark green passenger car color.  The 1000's and 1100's had a white stripe.  The RBL's had a chrome yellow stripe. Bill

I have reserved a room at the Super 8 just blocks from the convention center at Collinsville and would like to share. Jared Harper harperandbrown@...

I too am colorblind Ron but also Acrylic Only. This model will be painted with badger's Modelflex #16-77 Northern Pacific Light Green. Bill Welch