To Those of You Who Still Build Kits, I have the following InterMountain HO unbuilt kits for sale and would be willing to bring them next week to Naperville. Let me know, offline, please. PFE

A while back we had a thread on tools, started with tweezers, I think. Sometimes you have to look at stuff with more than one mindset. I was seeking toothpicks (for mixing up epoxy to use on steam

Thanks for the info. Think one is worth $39? Richard Hendrickson <rhendrickson@...> wrote: -- Richard Townsend Lincoln City,

Yes, that is interesting. It looks to me like overlaid? steel? bars on the side. The fasteners at the bottom of the side at each vertical piece lend to that impression. They >could< also

As Ben Hom so eloquently put it...discussions about computer software has little to do with our agreed to subject matter and is entirely out of scope. Strike one. Mike Brock STMFC Owner

So, what color do the old style 78's come in, so I can figure out when the new style are in stock? Of course, by doing that, the old stock will be in stock for quite a while . . . The shops I've

Brian Chapman wrote: From page 79 of the 1948 AAR Superintendents' PROCEEDINGS OF THE 52ND ANNUAL MEETING, "There are certain ownerships of coal cars in which there are definite restrictions against

Dear "Loconut35" The B&O Grey mix, that you mention, using Floquil paints is for PASSENGER cars NOT freight cars! Not the same color. Paint your B&O Covered hoppers Cement Grey. I used to use

Pete Brown and 'Bob' Crispen have been discussing the Lookout utility offered (or not, as the case sometimes is) by Microsoft which allows you to search your own computer. I downloaded the Google

Hello All, Just a note to inform you that one of the gretest booksellers in the northeast, Edward R. Hamilton, has a complete section in his catalog dedicated to Railroads and a sub-section for

Other than the Dec 2003 MR article, is there a good listing of what each of the major manufacturers' trucks really represent? I know what some of the trucks are, but others seem a mystery! Can someone

An interesting photo on this site is of CNW 128698, a double sheathed box car from 1912. What I found odd was the dark lines or shadows spaced along the side sheathing, making it look somewhat like

I know that photos of freight cars that are not where they are suppose to be are of interest to some on this group. I was looking at the images on the Wheeler CD I had burned before mailing it

About 1938 - working from memory here, can't confirm until I'm back home next month - the AAR asked the railroads to test various metal running boards. It was only after the test period that metal

Jerry, Southern Pacific alone took delivery on nearly 6,000 box cars from 1940 to 1942 with metal grid running boards. Also the 1,000 R-40-14's built during the war were so equipped. All of the C&NW

Rich, some years ago PSC imported some "bargain" models of HP ICC-105 tank cars, and the model you saw may be one of them if it had a small valve casing on top of the tank instead of an expansion

This message arrived while Sandra and I were out running a sports car rally in her 1970 MG-B (in this year's first serious rain in Southern Oregon - barometer 29.3 and snow on the mountains above

Would these be the same as cars lableled coke racks in early ORERs? These appeared on the Toledo & Ohio Central, Kanawha & Michigan, and Zanesville & Western, and I'm sure on other roads as well.

Phil Buchwald wrote: From just after the turn of the century until the mid-1920s, the Santa Fe ordered thousands of new stock cars which had Caswell drop bottom doors and longitudinal roof hatches