Now all that is needed is to ship Paul's cars from Plymouth, England, to Kent, WA/USA to Bill Messecar’s layout. Bill is modeling the area around Corona, CA, and has a scratch-built model of the

Happy New Year Arved & Group!!! The Ft. Dodge Line was the first of three Salzberg roads to receive the refurbished B&M XM-1 SS cars of 1929/30. The painting practice on those cars, done in the B&M's

On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 11:06 AM, O Fenton Wells wrote: Bill, did you ever get to meet Tommy Bissett from Winter Haven FL?Fenton - I've heard the name, but never got to meet him -- Bill

Here is an example of one on the tender of ES&S 6 in the park in East Jordan, Michigan. Steve Hile

I did it on an operating session on the Comanche & Indian Gap Live Steam layout, quite fun Prototype N Scale Models (TM) by George Hollwedel 2108 Buffalo Tundra Dr Austin, TX 78754-5960

Looking over the few photos I've found of FDDM&S box cars from the transition era, has left me a few questions as to the paint scheme. Looks like underframe including trucks were black. Ends are the

For both the NP Rapido boxcars, all 16 of them, and their USRA DS boxcars, factory wheelsets were replaced with Intermountain 0.88 wheels. Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock

Bruce, My club has about 500 cars equipped with Accurail or Bowser rigid truck frames fitted with I/M .0888 wheels. It became our de facto standard several years ago. We have had no problems with

See "Poling Railroad cars" -- http://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2015/07/poling-railroad-cars.html More than a few steam locomotives carried a pole on one side of the tender, as

I have enjoyed this thread but, while I have may have missed it, I don’t recall seeing WHY the practice of poling was banned by at least a majority railroads. An article I read years and years

Thanks Ken, looked funky on my end the first time. Happy New Year! William aka drgwk37

Tim, What you say is true - and not ... for me, and for reasons I don't fully understand, I get different things (learn more/see more/see differently?) from looking at books in my lap than I do

James Thank you. Paul Doggett

I've done this myself as well when the Delayer wouldn't give me Track and Time to do a runaround! Take Care and Happy New Years! Brian Termunde Murray, UT Re: Photos: Poling Action From: Jason P Date:

William, It came through - both times. Thank you for sharing. Ken Montero

Paul, Good job; you have gons that smell good! Jim Brewer

Not sure if the attachment came through. Trying again. William aka drgwk37

Ive poled around too at the local club! Sure was fun! Used a piece of plastic which looked quite accurate. Was interesting explaining to the baffled just what the heck I was doing. I know most roads'

Even done on the D&RGW NG when needed as seen here on the Farmington branch. William aka drgwk37

Bill, did you ever get to meet Tommy Bissett from Winter Haven FL? He passed away a few years ago but was a SCL engineer out of Lakeland and his father was an ACL engineer. He knew a lot about the