Thanks Jeff for the info. BTW gize, sorry if my message hit your mailbox three times. I must have gotten punchy with the "send" button at the e-Groups site. :) Warren

Some of the Cyclopedias can be mail-ordered from hobby shops. The last time I was there, The Train Shop in Santa Clara, CA had quite a few. You can contact The Train Shop at " 408-296-1050 - Train

Fellow Listers, I am very new to the group, and still consider myself very new at trying to do some railroad modeling. I'm not entirely sure if this is the place for this post or

Fellow Listers, I am very new to the group, and still consider myself very new at trying to do some railroad modeling. I'm not entirely sure if this is the place for this post or

Charlie, Santa Fe composite cars are included in the first release and it's my understanding that the boat has docked; they may have been shipped already. Models of the Santa Fe cars after they were

The LL site lists the following; ITEM # ROADNAME AND NUMBER PAINT SCHEME 23799 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe #180633 As Delivered: Oxide Brown w/ White Lettering 23800

Can anyone tell me if the Proto 2000 war emergency 2-bay hopper has been relieced yet? And if so, what road names is in the first reliece? Charlie Slater Bakersfield,

Steve Hile wrote: Steve, what Dwight did is a plausible kit-bash which results in a model that's fairly close to being dimensionally accurate for a 10K gal. insulate ICC-103 or ICC-104. I've

In the February RMC there is a brief kitbashing article where Dwight Smith shortened the Athearn chemical tank car and frame and added a larger dome and details. The results look nice. There is a

http://www.worldrailfans.org/USA/General/Trucks/Trucks.htm Timothy O'Connor <timoconnor@...> Marlborough, Massachusetts

In 1950, the Soo had 4 cars classed TW: 4481, 4491, 4669, and 4799 - all marked as vinegar tanks. I'm wondering if these 4 were rebuilt from another series of cars: 4401-4799 (they share the same

Earl: While I'll be the 1st to admit that $28K sounds high for an air brake mold, I've been designing molds and getting them into production use for more than 25 years. If you look in the archives

These numbers are starting to get ridiculus. I was quoted $1700 for a "double side puller" mold for a pair of chilled iron wheels and a tapered axle in S scale. When I got a re-quote, eliminating

Jeff Aley comments: I may be out of date on this, but the $100k number that used to get thrown around was for steel dies. Aluminum dies made with NC technology are supposedly less expensive. And any

True as far as I know, Jon. I haven't bought one in a couple of years; the one I'm currently using is a Berol Prismacolor French (very light) Gray. Richard H. Hendrickson Ashland, Oregon 97520

Went hunting for the "Berol Prismacolor" white pencils today. At my local "Aaron Brothers" store I found "Sanford Prismacolor" pencils. Some of their 'magic markers' had either one name or the other

f.y.i. Somebody offering Coughlin's book on ebay. It's an extremely thorough, official AAR book on the theory of freight car handling, ca.

order Wow! That's a pretty big pile of money! I thought that one could tool an entire freight car for $100,000. Are the brakes really 1/4 of the total cost? Or is most of the $28,000 "overhead"?

I believe that the K brake set that CalScale used to make included other parts besides the actual cylinder/reservoir, such as levers, brake wheel, retainer valve etc. Max

I have a problem with the figure of $28,000 to cut a mold for a K-brake. We are talking one part 3/4" long here. I think probably $2,800 is more accurate. At 10 cents a part profit it would take