Ah---- The G(no hyphen)31d. Close to the Tangent model. Thanks Claus! Mike Schleigh in Grove City, Penna.

Hi List Members, Some might enjoy seeing this PRR gon with some kind of metal product load, with what might be dedicated metal blocking to support the load.

Years ago there was a cartoon in MR depicting a woman at the door of a cabin speaking to her husband while a “bumpkin’” son sat in a rocking chair with a blade of grass clenched in his teeth and

If you really want to get the old goats: provide a few walkers with the built in seats. Or lower the layout and give everyone an office chair. You might find an architects stool on casters that could

Scott, You know us way too well. That hurts. :) Mike MP-Z35

If your backs and feet and knees hurt too much you could go full-prototype and abandon the line. Pull up the rails, cover the roadbed with weeds, let the local volunteer fire department burn a depot

Jared, I would vote for the lunch break option. We do that at Jeff Mutter's and I don't recall losing many if any guys at the break. Adjusting your start time to split the session also allows an

Proto48 is pretty tempting for sure. Scott McDonald

I have monthly op sessions on my Santa Fe Alma branch layout. My layout is 22 1/2 x 30' with seven stations--Burlingame, Harveyville, Bradford, Eskridge, Hessdale, Allendorph, and Alma. I invite three

I am going back to HO and have a large inventory of O Scale. If you are changing to O Scale and are interested please contact me at Smithal9@...

It’s that time of year again. Come on out to the Eastern PA 2 rail O Scale swap meet and train show April 6th, Doors open at 9:00 am. The show is over at 1:00 PM dealers will be open until 1:00 PM

Maybe this was mentioned earlier but here is a very nice Builder's photo of these cars: https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/albums/72157649155982802/with/39766070301/ Bill Welch

Sylvan Scale Models offered etched caboose ladder stiles for their CNR caboose kit They are available again Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com

I'd like to see your list. My email is bheinley@.... Thanks-Ben Heinley

Yep, that’s the ticket. Your email, Johannes, came while I was typing out my last message. Schuyler

Somebody used to make etched caboose ladders. They were kind of a bear to assemble but you supplied wire to go through the etched stiles and soldered it all together. The top ends of the stiles were

All, After many years of modeling in HO, my vision no longer will allow me to continue. I’m going to change scale upward and keep building. That said, I have some HO equipment that now needs new

All- Could the cars have been built for the same type of service (aircraft parts) as the XA-14D raised roof single sheathed 50 ft DD Boxcars rebuilt in 1942 for B-26 Marauder wings and later the B-29

As we discussed before, the ends with eight outward ribs were a Murphy product as used on an order of Pere Marquette cars, which in fact this may be because the P&N picked up a lot of second hand

That car is in really good shape for its age. Looks like fresh paint for sure. Thats an interesting car for sure. Scott McDonald