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Re: Lackawanna questions

On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 12:55 PM, Eric Hansmann wrote: I hope you have a motorized drill to make all the holes for 600 grab irons. How are you only drilling 1000 holes for 600 grabs?Clark uses "L"

By Tom Madden · #186511 ·

Re: Lackawanna questions

I hope you have a motorized drill to make all the holes for 600 grab irons. How are you only drilling 1000 holes for 600 grabs? Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

By Eric Hansmann · #186510 ·

Re: Lackawanna 45000-45999

CDS and Prime Mover decals offers the best artwork for these, using vintage typefaces. .....Mike Del Vecchio Thanks Mike and Tim. Mike I went to the Prime Mover site, I didn't see any listings for any

By Clark Propst · #186509 ·

Re: Lackawanna questions

Ok, here's the carbody as built and after rebuilding - literally! Had to cut down the width of the Red Caboose roof. I believe in one of the responses it was mentioned the cars received steel running

By Clark Propst · #186508 ·

Re: Sunshine NYC Hopper Minikit?

I should add, the sunshine instructions say that Frank did the masters for the sides. I would not be unhappy if they made a return under the RCW banner. Brian J. Carlson

By Brian Carlson · #186507 ·

Photo: Rutland Boxcar (1956)

Photo: Rutland Boxcar (1956) Photo from the Pullman Library: https://pullman-lib.smugmug.com/Railroad-R-S/i-p5VgQrZ/buy Sorry, the coverage of my small library of Equipment Registers does not

By Bob Chaparro · #186506 ·

Re: Sunshine NYC Hopper Minikit?

The height and length are wrong. Since these were based on the USRA hopper. Brian J. Carlson

By Brian Carlson · #186505 ·

Sunshine NYC Hopper Minikit?

I saw that Eric Hansmann had posted a photo of Brian Carlson's Sunshine NYC hopper mini-kit build. Does anyone know if this hopper is close enough to Intermountain's Alternate Standard hopper to be

By nyc3001 . · #186504 ·

Re: Lackawanna 45000-45999

On 8/11/2021 1:45 AM, MDelvec952 via groups.io wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

By Tim O'Connor · #186503 ·

Re: Robert Weaver

Back in the early 1980's I made contact with Bob Weaver, who gave me a personal tour of his facilities up in Northumberland, PA (I was enroute to the Berwick nuclear plant). He showed me the

By John Sykes III · #186502 ·

Re: St. Louis RPM wrap up

Eric, Thanks for the wrap up! Some great models in those pictures - gets the juices flowing. - Jim

By Jim Betz · #186501 ·

Lackawanna 45000-45999

Hi Clark, The worst part of those kits are the decals, raised from an iffy photo from the Whittaker collection. The thin film is nice, but the artwork sucketh to the purist. They were in the

By MDelvec952 · #186500 ·

PFE 30-Ton "Built-up" Underframe

I am looking for drawings of the 30-ton "Railroad Design Built-up Underframe", used on PFE Class R-30-13, and other classes. I have an article, "PFE Ice Reefers: Wood Cars", by Tony Thompson, RMC,

By Don Hand <donlhand109@...> · #186499 ·

Re: Barkley Better Boxes

As far as I know, yes. I expect to see them at the Houston Show in Stafford August 14 and the Austin Show August 28-29

By George Hollwedel · #186498 ·

Re: Robert Weaver

Quality Craft line also produced some craftsman kits in S scale--a D&H caboose, bathtub gondola, a hopper car and a 50' all-door boxcar (I have two of those and one caboose) that I'm aware of. Bob

By Bob Werre · #186497 ·

Summer TKM, #117, 2021, is now available!

Folks, The Summer, 2021 issue (#117) of The Keystone Modeler is now available on the NEW PRRT&HS web site at: https://www.prrths.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=171391&module_id=451730 If you

By Bruce Smith · #186496 ·

St. Louis RPM wrap up

I've posted a short summary of the recent St. Louis RPM on the Resin Car Works blog. Links to a few event photo galleries are included. http://blog.resincarworks.com/stl-rpm-wrap-up/

By Eric Hansmann · #186495 ·

Re: Robert Weaver

Hi Ken and List Members, Ken wrote: "the Quality Craft label...snip...This line of products was sold and then re-issued as Gloor Craft" I had always wondered what the relation was (if any)

By Claus Schlund \(HGM\) · #186494 ·

Re: Robert Weaver

Robert Weaver, under the Quality Craft label, made an extensive line of wood/metal craftsman kits (freight cars and structures) in HO and O scales before he started making O scale plastic and brass

By Kenneth Montero · #186493 ·

UP B-50-19 Lettering Question

According to the caption of a photo on p. 368 of RP CYC #35, these "1937 AAR" boxcars were built in the summer of 1936, some at Omaha and others at Grand Isle. Unlike later yellow slogans etc, the

By irv_thomae · #186492 ·

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