Charlie, I have the Epson V800 and have had good success with prints, negatives, slides, documents and maps. With the slide frame I was able to quickly scan a loaned collection of about 50 slides in

http://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2016/03/carrying-automobiles-in-boxcars.html reposted from s-scale@groups.io courtesy of rich gajnak ;-) mel perry

Cool! It says something about just how splintered the industry was amongst a bunch of manufacturers constantly developing new designs and new capabilities. I’m reminded of the conversation a few

Pete Ismail wrote: Thank you, Pete, glad to know where these are. It's a complete set, with not only the original Sheet 12, but the revision 12A that I mentioned. Tony Thompson tony@...

I bought a Magnasonic unit off Amazon. It’s a little thing, doesn’t take up much space. There’s a learning curve to editing, especially color. Other than that it’s ok. Clark Propst Sent

Re: F37B with “no well floor” (at least that’s what I’m interpreting Elden’s comment…) Note other railroads also had well cars with “no floor”. In the Jan 1953 ORER (table in

Like others I too have a Epson scanner…a V600. It scans up to 1200 dpi so it can scan negs and has a holder for slides. Jack Burgess

They’re still out there: http://espee.railfan.net/sp_fcss-index.html Pete Ismail Honolulu, HI

Elden, I have a copy in hand as I type. In the middle 1960s, SP issued a series of "Freight Car Specification Sheets" for all car types, 25 in all, and over time some of the sheets received

Charlie, Very much of interest to me. Jerry Michels

Tony; If you ever find a copy of that, I would LOVE to see a copy! Regards, Elden Gatwood

Charlie, I use an "Epson Perfection V8000 Photo" scanner, a semi-pro machine that does a pretty good job scanning slides and negatives, as well as general copying. The software is a bit clunky, but

Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive uses Epson scanners, primarily the V800 and V850. I particularly like that the the associated computer software lets you tweak the scan parameters based on your

Gatwood, Elden wrote: Can't speak for other railroads, but I know SP had a document describing each of their specially equipped and heavy duty flat cars. Doubtless this was intended for

Group; This is the BM car in question, as the F&C kit. It is a really different, fun build. And this beast. Not everyone knows, the FD2 “Queen Mary” was one of the biggest flat cars

Charlie, I have done a lot of scanning over the years, starting with a Nikon Coolscan. At the moment I have an Epson V750 Pro flatbed that will do everything from negs to slides to documents, and a

Charlie, I have an Epson V600 and have been pretty happy with it for slides, negatives, and old photos. I've been pretty impressed with the negative digital scans compared to photos that were produced

Charlie, I purchased an Epson V800 and am very pleased with it for transparencies as it will scan large format negatives as well as slides. It connects via USB and is Twain compliant for

A lot of the hardware on that Indestructible end looks familiar... If re-working an Accurail car it would be well worth saving the end sill just for the polinf pocket castings. Unfortunetly, the NYC

That photo of the Hutchins end with two pressings per panel is a new one on me... learn something new every day. Hutchins must have bought a bigger press before they were forced to end