clear decal film, as a representation? mel perry

With a little help from PHOTOSHOP and a left-right merge tool - not a perfect splice but pretty close. -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Tim, Absolutely an issue. Patch panels begin to appear in significant numbers in the 1950s. No plans for Rapido to do them at this time, but as we noted in discussions at the modeling meet, patch

AMC wasn’t a company until 1954. The lead flat car is of a series that disappeared from the ORER in 1930. The photo might be from the AMC archives. But why are the crates stenciled B&W and not

Clark, I always thought that photo was MOST notable for the presence of the D&H Seley hopper car! :-) -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

The X31 cars had the same design flaw as the ARA/X29's eventually requiring patches to be applied to the lower sides. When did the patches begin to appear and will Rapido do

The first sentence under the picture reads: “Boxcars loaded with Nash or AMC cars to be shipped by railroad, ending up in Australia and New Zealand. Each boxcar is stamped with its

I’ve been using it for years along with tungsten disks to weight pilot trucks when needed. I’ve ordered from Maximum Velocity: https://www.maximum-velocity.com/product/tungsten-putty-1-ounce/

This one is notable for having the Mount Vernon builder's logo with the "Mf'g Div. :: Pressed Steel Car Company Inc." modification. David Thompson

I believe his at the place they put ‘bad-order’ info. The Who/What/Where/Why of the problem. I saw an agent on the Western Maryland, Highfield station-at that spot. He said he was filling out bad

There is an explanation at the top of the picture.

Bob Chaparro via groups.io wrote: It was covered in the NMRA Periodical Index, though not as thoroughly as one might wish. I have the latest version (AFAIK), let me know what you're looking for and

As it is 1943 they are probably military tank trailers being taken to docks for loading to send to buildup in England for Normandy invasion. -- Ken Adams Still in splendid Shelter In Place solitude,

Bob Chaparro wrote: I think he's attaching a route card. He's not holding a chalk stick but a tacker. Tony Thompson tony@...

What Is This Fellow Doing? A photo from the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017839374/ The fellow appears to have a chalk stick in his hand but instead of making a mark on

Greetings, Look again Ben! To the right of the repack stencil, there is a stencil that reads "REPAIRED SP . 11 . 52" Louie B. Hydrick Associate Broker RE/MAX Partners 4316 Washington Road Evans GA

On Cody's Office this week (Kalmbach, Model Railroader), Cody Grivno showed Woodland Scenic's tungsten putty, which is a moldable tungsten "clay"-like product that you can cram into spaces like center

Mont Switzer, when will your models be ready?? A MONON flat with tank truck trailers? Obviously you MUST model this. 😊 Schuyler

If you build or look at the instructions for one of the Owl Mountain's SP F-50-xx kits you will see Jason Hill's very ingenious design for small straight side sill flat car weighting that would be

Jeff Aley wrote: "Hmm. I think a similarly-worded response would be “yes, it does.” But I’ll refrain from the all caps." I'll concede this one, but I'll guarantee people will continue to