Mark, I have recently built two Tichy War Emergency gons. I found the decals in both kits to be very brittle and difficult to handle. After losing a few decals, I solved the problem by overspraying

Dave Nelson: as compared I'm not Ted, don't even play one on TV, but I'll take a shot at this. Martin has been using the technique for several year for gons. There's nothing intrinsically inferior

A note on the BLI General American reefers. I received a new catalog from them. It's really nice, sort of like Lionel catalogs of long ago. Studying the comments on the reefer I noticed something

Ditto for mine. Request to Tichy for replacment went unanswered. So I purchased another set and oversprayed them lightly with Dullcote and managed to get them on the car. I would use them again

As has already been noted, the EJ&E and IHB are hardly "small railroads." Indeed, they are officially Class 2 Terminal Lines (if I remember the terminology correctly). Terminal roads don't get a cut

Mark All of mine came apart in the water until I painted them with the decal saver. Larry Smith

Ted, do you know what quality product he gets using this process as compared to say, Al's way? Dave Nelson

Ed, Can't wait for that volume to go to print! Thanks to Mr. Wider for doing this research. Knowing that there were several lengths, widths, and patterns of ribs over the various

brake Try these: http://home.att.net/~pullmanproject/PE_1.jpg http://home.att.net/~pullmanproject/PE_2.jpg http://home.att.net/~pullmanproject/PE_3.jpg I took those at Perris CA in 1988. The bluish

Hello everyone, I'm considering using Tichy #9029 decals for USRA and panel side hoppers for an upcoming D&H hopper project. I've heard that these decals don't take well to setting solutions.

I am looking for some underbody or close up views of the outside brake rigging used on PE SS boxcars to allow negotiation of tight curves. I'm interested in how to model the brake staff connections

no one can see it anyway. Did Ted write that???? Clark propst

Ben, April 1952 ORER: 648317-648326 3 cars January 1953 ORER: 648326 1 car Hope this helps, Larry Grubb benjaminfrank_hom <b.hom@...> wrote: Forgot one thing that would make it easier -

Mike Brock wrote: Most of the eastbound "Lumber Trains" also had "Reefers" in them in my Fall 1947 Fraley. Indeed, "lumber" may have been the interloper into the "Reefer Trains" - Indeed, all the

I didn't mean to confuse people by implying the "INDY" end was a corrugated steel end. That's the end I was searching for at the patent site. Bob Witt CBarkan@a... wrote: Al Westerfield. The

Ben, Have the following information: 1/1953 - 1 (648326) 1/1966 - 3 (134647-135076) 1/1966 - 1 (128918) Matt Herson

STMFC, I have been asked by Pat Wider to share with you the following information he has compiled on Milwaukee Road rib-side cars. This and more will be in an article in a future volume of Railway

Mike Brock wrote: This might be "roadway material," a term also used on SP and perhaps with origins in the Harriman era. Most "general purpose" boxes and flats in MOW service on SP were called

Richard; Thank you very much for taking the time to answer my message. I could also have been more careful in my definition of a "small" road, and I hope I did not offend anyone. Your assessment is

Ed Mines wrote: Oh, yeah. But the "brittle" had its compensations. I once dropped a completed kit from that early material and it fractured into a whole bunch of pieces. Disaster! But no, I