Bill sent me a couple of views of the test shots of the Yardmaster 1937 AAR box car, which have been posted on our (just getting started) guide to Branchline

Ed, Absolutely. The Arcade (sometimes called Lisbon) trestle was collapsed by a train of 21 cars of steel, probably all coils, being carried in D&RGW 45' GS gondolas. The accident happened on July

Richard Hendrickson said: Richard is entirely right. And contrary to John N's assumption, weather protection really isn't vital for most coil uses. These coils are going to be processed further by

Look Jeff, do you want me to make cars or update the @#%$@# website? :>) Yes, it needs a fix. They should be the same thing, "Yardmaster". The person working on our web site (no, not me anymore)

I've seen this at my local hobby shop. IMO, kits are an essential element of the hobby - aside from developing skills, it has to be keeping people in the hobby who, if faced with only RTR prices,

Bill, Thanks for clarifying what the Yardmaster series is. But I infer from your comments that there is no such thing as a Branchline "E-Z" kit. Does this mean that your website is in need of

Oops, you may have meant Model Railroader. Mailline Modeler has an O scale in their New Products section but the MSRP is $32.95. That listing you saw for $26 may be a HO scale RTR car which are a

I believe that's a O scale car which accounts for the price difference between it and HO scale cars. Jon Miller AT&SF For me time has stopped in 1941 Digitrax DCC owner, Chief system NMRA Life member

Friends, While scanning MODEL RAILROADING at the hobby store last weekend (didn't buy, seldom useful except as t.p.), I noticed that in the new products section was mention of an SP tank car (O-13,

Coil steel was shipped in open gondolas without weather protection. I've seen numerous photos of such shipments. Richard H. Hendrickson Ashland, Oregon 97520

Bill, I'm devastated! You've sold out! To the toy train bozos! Arrgh. Seriously, there's obviously a very sizeable market for such kits, and it's about time that market was better served than by

John and friends, I can't speak for all railroads, but I know how they shipped coils on the Western Pacific and Sacramento Northern in the steam/electric era: in open gondolas. To find out more, drop

Ever since Dennis Storzek said in effect the emperor had no clothes back in April '82 RMC regarding the mainstay of the hobby, the Athearn car with its undersized doors and CLAWS, I can't see past

The coil steel cars like the Bachmann and Walthers seem like an obvious solution to the problem of shipping coiled steel. It is so heavy you have to load with a crane and you need some sort of

The 1937 AAR box car has been available from MDC/Roundhouse for about a hundred years... Athearn's kit is an accurate (and as yet, unavailable in any other form including resin) rendition of the 1940

AAAAhhhh - The King is dead - Long live the King! Finally a replacement for the standard Athearn box car, in terms of similar prototype (the Athearn prototype is still questionable, but in

Jeez, with an intro like that how can I resist.... :>) The Branchline "Yardmaster" series kits ("E-Z" has already been taken...) are a new series of kits aimed at the "mass market". They will have

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 13:56:26 -0800 (PST) Jeff Aley - GCD PE <jaley@...> writes: ATTENTION ALL. Coming soon to this list will be Mr. Bill "we-haven't-shipped-that-yet" Schneider, chief

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:56:05 -0600 "Bruce F. Smith V.M.D., Ph.D." <smithbf@...> writes: Bruce, MR published a drawing of a Troop Sleeper converted to a service car several years back. I