Jim van Gaasbeek: Can you please provide a link to “Richard Hendrickson's treatise on HO Trucks”? Follow the links here: Freight Car Trucks 1900-1960 (groups.io) Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

Good catch. The tubes coming out beside and below the furnace are also suspect. Then there's the length - Scotch boilers don't seem to be that long compared to their diameter. I recommend a web search

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Pete, when you open a message the sender’s email address is in the header as shown below. All you have to do is double click the sender’s email address and a popup window appears with an option to

Sorry to send this to the group but can't figure out how to contact Ross off-list. Ross would like the #22.5 CB&Q XA-14 D 50’ Bomber Box $40 if not spoken for. Pete Reinhold

I know we are not all meeting in Cocoa Beach this month. So in that spirit I am trying to rehome some kits that align with the timeline of the list. I moved to 1/48 four years ago and these will never

Stephen You have built a very nice model of an unusual car. Paul Doggett. England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Rob, Not sure if this will help, but I did do a skim of the "Write Up Books" from the 1930s for South Tacoma for boxcar service, or accident repairs. The table below shows the car serviced, year, and

John, in his presentations Bill typically passed out a small slip of paper with the link to a Dropbox account where one could download his entire PowerPoint. He started doing this instead of printing

I'm guessing these are GE transformers, manufactured in Oakland. General Electric had a transformer plant in Oakland, CA starting in 1924. (5441 East 14th/ International Blvd). See "Project

Gentlemen, I have copies of Bill's Wood FGE Reefers and Steel FGE Reefers PowerPoint presentations. I believe they date back to around 2014. I'd be happy to share them with the group unless there is

I built one of the kit years ago as we have a similar vinegar tank in the Toronto Railway Museum collection. The kit was a beast to build, but it eventually became a model I am proud of, and your

One end might resemble a single furnace Scotch Marine but with the furnace not coming out the other end, I cannot see it being a good anything at all. Not that I have seen every possible boiler but it

Bachmann HO Scale Boiler Does anyone know the prototype for the Bachmann boiler? Does it approximate any known boiler type? Ted Culotta discussed this boiler on his Prototype Railroad Topics blog

The information cited applies to “managed payments sellers,” not to individual sellers. MPS appear to be stores. Most of us don’t fit that category. J. Stephen Sandifer

I’m curious about the repaint rates on these NP cars. Modelling 1946, I’m wondering whether the chance of seeing a car in the 1945 scheme still slim? It depends how fast the fleet of cars was

EBay is changing their setup for sellers, and eventually everybody will be required to use their managed payments instead of PayPal or other options. Buyers will be able to use PayPal as one of their

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Nice photo to help sell your management on the benefits on purchasing steel under frame flat cars which were just appearing in the this time frame, Michigal Central early freight car photos are hard

All - Chris Frissell's article is really well done, with a variety of weathering styles from moderate to 'is there any paint on that car?' His techniques are to be commended. I have just started