Bruce, I don't know of a specific group or reference on weathering the engines that hauled steam era freight cars. John Pryke published a basic guide in Model Railroad a number of years ago that might

David and Steve... I was using AutoSketch for my 2D drawings which saved files at .skd files. The AutoSketch9 program that I have cannot open them although and search online says that AutoSketch

I thought about the idea of another 486 but it might be impossible. I’ll check out Inkscape. Thanks... Jack

Bob Unfortunately Flickr is blocking it Paul Doggett

Model Meat Reefers HO scale InterMountain reefers. This photo was taken by Mark Mathu on the NAPM Model Railroad Club. https://tinyurl.com/6t5y8nbh Six photos combined into a single fully focused

Jack/anyone, You can often pick up fully functional OLDER versions of software packages (such as AutoCad) - but not 'licensable' because the current owner of the software doesn't support it any

Caption top photo page 78 Freight cars and grain elevators August Grain rush may have started ALL those cars could have been in grain rush service. -- Ted Larson Trainweb.org/MHRR --- GN in

I have the contents of the MM CD on my hard drive and that’s exactly how the magazines appear, extremely readable. The CD is well worth the $90 cost, especially as it was originally about four times

For drawing I use Corel Draw 2019 and also have version X6 These are not a subscription model and can be found at the usual action site Any of the older versions will work There do import dfx

[unsolicited plug from a satisfied user] I use WINE (Wine Is Not an Emulator) in its precompiled form Crossover from Codeweavers. WINE accepts calls to the Windows application binary interface and

I used inkscape for one project, and if i recall correctly i did exactly that - imported DXF files from CAD and exported Corel Draw Files, after I'd finished my edits inside inkscape. It was quite

Hello to all, fwiw, this issue has been solved. Bernd Schroeder hat lots of these couplers and sold all to me making for a life-time supply (hopefully, likely :-)). Thanks again for every help.

I'm not Dave, but I've been using Turbocad for a very long time (since Windows 3, but I don't keep it up to date) and it's good enough for me; I use 3rdPlanIt for more than just track plans, as the 3D

When I began this topic with a simple comment about Mainline Modeler I did not expect that the topic would grow legs. When it comes to the accuracy of published drawings I have a long standing

Best wishes on the surgery and recovery, Pierre. Tony Thompson

Jack- If you are using a program to do 2D vector graphics I find CorelDraw to be very intuitive for somebody trained on a board with a T-square. CorelDraw has become outrageously expensive and now

If one is serious about model trucks, must do the prototype research. Also trucks could be changed out depending on the age of the car. Two springs unless otherwise noted. And

Video: New York’s West Side Line https://youtu.be/ogJJIw1Ed_I A short video featuring the street-level freight rail line that operated on Manhattan’s far west side alongside horse-drawn

Dave... What CAD program are you using? I had been using AutoCAD for decades to produce drawings of Yosemite Valley Railroad equipment, stations, etc. on an old 486 computer which finally died.

I too have done many drawing on the board using plastic lead and ink on mylar and many using CAD for the DoN. I have to tell you, I much prefer the product done using CAD. Line thicknesses could be