One more: p 33: East of Roanoke, VA, August 1956 A very shiny N&W coal gon two cars ahead of the caboose. Ben Hom

Catching up on some correspondence - here are a few photos of interest in the Fall 2004 issue of Classic Trains: p 4: Palmerston, Ont., October 1957 The subject of this photo is CN 4-6-0 No. 1576,

I forgot to mention: please contact me OFF LIST! Thanks Denny -- Denny S. Anspach, MD Sacramento

Friends, I have ended up with a largely-already-built S gauge Northeastern stock car body with wood ends in its original box. I do not know the prototype. It seems to be fairly neatly constructed by

done that work), but it's a long commute from Evanston to Crossville. Anyway, Al, I really do appreciate your work, your reasonable prices, quick delivery time, and your ongoing commitment to

I would happily volunteer my time as a resin pourer (actually have done that work), but it's a long commute from Evanston to Crossville. Anyway, Al, I really do appreciate your work, your reasonable

Jeff Lodge advised: Jeff, The distribution of ownership of the US-owned boxcars ex CV's & GTW's appear to be roughly in line with the proportion of boxcars owned by US Class I RR's with the

I have a scan of a color slide taken after 1957 of a M-15xx, taken in Taylor yard, LA CA. with a reweigh date of 1957. This is a larger scan, about 500k. If interested, send me your request off-line,

--- In STMFC@..., Richard Hendrickson <rhendrickson@o...> wrote: ... but it's safe to generalize that most cars built before WW I with all wood superstructures were retired during the

a lot larger than the one from Tichy.Are they both accurate or is one oversized or undersized? casting was 411/2" long (includes the lugs) and 19" across at the seam. From what I see the Cal-Sacle

This thread is interesting as I recently completed a Westerfield Sk-2 along with some other stock cars for the next installment for RMC. I used Richard Hendrickson's article in the August 2004 RMJ

And this is the method recommended by Al Westerfield on his stock car kits. Remember that the board depth is what's important, so if you just go far enough to make the flash fall out, that's

This IS a great way to get the sides cleaned out, but one word of caution... I was happily sanding away on one when I was momentarily distracted by the six year old. Apparently, my sanding hand just

Ed,Where is volume 10 ?Armand Premo

I had actually heard that from someone else as well. I tried it and got the flash fairly thin, but being my first try I got a little nervous about going too far and ruining the kit. Still I think it

Again the paint would be an era thing. I would suspect in my era it would be black. Later on it could be Mineral brown. Jon Miller AT&SF For me time has stopped in 1941 Digitrax, Chief/Zephyr

Ben and Steve, thanks very much for your help. As I'm a fairly recent convert to prototype modeling my library is far from complete. Always another ten books to buy. Thanks again. Darren Plants

Bill, The above information about Vol. 9 being out of print isn't correct. RP CYC Publishing Co. has Vol. 9 readily available and they can be ordered by mailing a check/money order to PO Box 451,

The 55525-56024 series were constructed by Canadian Car & Foundry from 12/57-1/58 (the other cars are from the 57525-58024 series, constructed by National Steel Car from 5-7/60 and the 58475-59174

Of the color still photos I have seen, I have yet to see an ATSF stock car with a black roof. Of course, most of the color photos come from the late 50s and 60s when the black roof would have been