When where the first U.P. CA3 caboose slogans introduced? http://www.intermountain-railway.com/distrib/ccs/images/CCS1068- 01w.jpg Regards, Arnold.

Digital cameras are great. I try and take photos of everything I make at as many stages as I can. Photos don’t cost anything, and they are very quick to take – assuming you have good lighting at

New this morning. A bit too old for me and since I'm buying their 1916 edition I'll pass on these other two. Dave Nelson ---------------------------------------------------------- 3. Car Builders'

I am finishing a Tichy NYC war emergency gon and have a couple of questions. The equipment diagram for this car shows a Miner hand brake but the model is not designed for this. Should it be modified

Gentlemen, Posted on the Fallen Flag site is a photo of what appears to be a 50' wood reefer for Polar Wave Ice & Fuel (PWIF RW 117), ACF Lot 7063, blt 05/21/1913 from the Steve Wydeck

My god !, if I did that, I'd miss all my train friends..... Alan __________________________________________________ / \ | What: Modeling Canadian Pacific in B.C. in the late 50's | |

--- In STMFC@..., tgregmrtn@a... wrote: ... > Or better yet write an article about something > you can share with us and we can spend our time reading... "FEED > YOUR HEAD..." This is

I find that by skipping the train shows, I have much more time for modeling <G> Jerry in Fla

This morning I checked the two M&StL cars that were mentioned as getting into MofW service, against the negatives I have of both cars. X846 is definately marked as the kitchen-bunk car, and X847 is

Tony Thompson observes- Although Tony would blush, this is an incredibly perceptive even profound observation. An awful lot of fine layout builders do not show their layouts to anyone, simply because

Wow! Deja Vu! The point of view that a "modeler" is not a modeler unless he or she does "just what I do" brings back clear memories of the wailing lamentations and tearing-of-hair that filled the

At the Riordan Mansion State Park in Flagstaff, there are a couple of panoramic photos of Arizona Land & Timber operations in the early 1920s Box cars include: (All 40' I believe although I did not

I have a spare brake lever (part #16) if you haven't found one already. Advise your mailing address. I can use the B-1 trucks. Frank Brua

I suspect that RTR models is one of the main reasons for so many train shows.It provides one with the opportunity to upgrade. :- ) Armand Premo

of some price which they these models such. Marklin, who Trix is the 2 rail DC version of, has been building die cast locos for years. Not a "collectors market" per se, but then I do have a

I've still got a bunch of Athearn cars that allowed me to build up a couple of trains that I can run around the layout while modified and kit built cars show up as replacements, at least when I had

Hi Don, I have a current beef with the Trix models you see in the adds of some mags, especially the Mikado and the PA1, that beef is the list price which at $ 600 (us) is just a bit too expensive

I've picked up several "Modeling the Second World War" type books from FSM books and there is a lot of nice work in them, but I think it's only the few out of the many that show up in the press,

I am in need of a Proto 2000 brake lever for an Erie car I am building, mine is missing. I probably lost it since this kit is from the original run many years ago. I was wondering if anyone had a

A two-part answer: I use a foam cradle to hold cars upright. It's sized to hold the sides securely. Bought it for pennies at my LHS. You can always rotate things so that the vertical brakewheel