Presumably those of us who were able to register will be getting some form of e-mail notification from Speedwitch in the next day or so with the login information. I have an alternate weekly Zoom

Tim, Yes, it's hard to steal from a fast moving train. And it's hard to steal from a train moving at "regular" speed. I'd say the difficulty is about the same. Now, a STOPPED train is different.

It may be an error to assume the railroad needed any significant insurance for the raw silk load. They may have required the SHIPPER to buy any "excess" insurance. That has happened to many of us when

From the shape of the tanks, the "Poison Gas" placards, and my many young hours spent on the catwalk above Taylor, my guess would be chlorine. Cheers, Bruce A. Metcalf

It was incredibly valuable cargo. Why are so many non-perishable products (MILLIONS of TONS) now shipped by air? Because it's so valuable that the higher transportation cost is

I mentioned a couple of those reasons for speed in my earlier post. As I envision the hoopla accompanying the silk shipments, I also see another benefit from railroad speed: self-promotion. "Sure

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 08:42 AM, spsalso wrote: there is no indication that raw silk is perishable. Thus there is no consequent need for speed. Yes, there is no need for speed due to silk not being

Reading through the link I posted earlier: https://www.tis-gdv.de/tis_e/ware/fasern/seide/seide-htm/#informationen there is no indication that raw silk is perishable. Thus there is no consequent need

I believe one of the reasons for speed was that insurance was paid per day. The trains were sometimes carrying a cargo worth over $1M. A lot of money then. Articles I have read also indicated the

While I can't say as I've tried the Mr Self Leveling Thinner on Tamiya paints, I can attest to the stuff's goodness. I use it to thin the Mr Color lacquers and it's great stuff. I've bodged a paint

Will there be instructions for accessing the Virtual RPM this week? Some of us computer illiterate folks think that a laptop is an activity in a Kotean Bar. Bill Pardie Sent from my Verizon, Samsung

Yes, on one of the Facebook Airbrushing pages I follow, several people rave about Mr. Color's qualities. I admit I have not sprayed with it and will test before I do my almost ready to paint

Thanks, Bill. I have some Tamiya Orange in the paint drawer, so that saves me a trip to my LHS. Any reason you’re not using Tamiya’s Thinner? From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io

this should be a good one, can't wait thanks mel perry

Working on my presentation for Saturday's June 13th 20/20 Hindsight Virtual RPM. Hope you will be there. Model on ya'll Bill Welch

Eastern Seaboard Models is working on these in HO scale. They did N scale several years ago.

Hello Peter, thanks to you, too. >> I don’t have everything you may need since my New Haven “ends” in 1959. << 1959 is already too late - so your link most likely includes everything I

Bruce, your are right, of course. I still have to lot a learn, uhm , to learn a lot... :-) Regarding these nice cars nonetheless it's now clear I have to resist - maybe I could stretch my mind up to

Friends, I didn't know this until recently--the rayon Malcolm mentioned is made from wood pulp. One of the principal producers of rayon was . . . stand by for this . . . Rayonier Incorporated (later

On June 9, 2020 at 2:04 PM Tony Thompson <tony@...> wrote: po Marty Cooper wrote:hi: yep. I wanted one, I got one. It makes a nice static display, but it is too heavy to run