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Re: Essential freight cars in RMC

Andy Miller wrote: Nonsense! If you remember Ted Culotta's Introduction to "The Essential Freight Car" series on page 79 of the April 2003 RMC, "Essential Freight Cars ... should be present on almost

By Tim Gilbert <tgilbert@...> · #40785 ·

Re: Fitz-Hugh Luther Co

thanks jack. will try. eric

By eabracher@... · #40800 ·

Suncoast kits

This past year I assembled a new old-stock Suncoast FGE reefer kit (#6003), and I thoroughly enjoyed both the effort and the result. The kit was all wood, very complete, and required quite a bit of

By Denny Anspach <danspach@...> · #40783 ·

Re: Techniques

My only experience with Kadee running boards is applying them to Red Caboose '37 AAR box cars. The RC car comes with wood running boards and my M&StL box cars should have Apex and USG running

By bierglaeser <bierglaeser@...> · #40782 ·

Walthers USRA hoppers

I'm surprised at the road names that Walthers is offering for their "new" USRA hopper. NYCentral is absent; I always thought that this car and it's clones were very common on that

By ed_mines · #40781 ·

Re: ATSF BX3 (?)

cart", a page comes up saying, "You cart's empty, continue shopping."< Ah, did the same thing myself. You need to put the number 1 in how many books you want. Easy mistake to make as it took me

By Jon Miller <atsf@...> · #40784 ·

PRR K8s

I see a lot of interest in PRR K8 stock cars. Weren't these the prototypes or close to prototypes for Ambroid's stock car kit? I don't think it's that bad and if the wooden parts representing

By ed_mines · #40780 ·

corn syrup

Larry- Sorry I questioned you in group. Corn starch is converted to corn syrup (a sweetener) with sulfuric acid. One of my favorite steam loco books - "Eastern Steam Pictorial" by Paul Carlton

By ed_mines · #40779 ·

Re: Essential freight cars in RMC

If this is a poll, you have my vote. Hear, hear, K8s, K8s, K8s! And how about X29Bs. There are rumors that F&C will do one this year. It appears that C&BT is long forgotten. regards, Andy

By Andy Miller <asmiller@...> · #40777 ·

Re: ATSF BX3 (?)

ALL of book billing and **************************************************************** Jon, Well, I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but when I click on "Add to cart", a page comes up saying, "You

By Paul Hillman · #40776 ·

Fitz-Hugh Luther Co

I am working on kits of the Fitz-Luther Company of Hammond, Indiana cattle cars. The Yosemite Valley RR had three of these 36 foot cars. Anyone know what other roads that might have had these same

By eabracher@... · #40789 ·

Re: Techniques

On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 Schuyler Larrabee wrote: " Knowing that there are a large number of superior modelers on this list (along with those of us with lesser skills . . .) I'd like to read how some of

By Richard White · #40775 ·

Re: ATSF BX3 (?)

their books are sold out, OR, their page is malfunctioning.< I just checked and it appears there are copies of the box car book available. I used the automated purchasing and went as far as

By Jon Miller <atsf@...> · #40774 ·

SF Bay Area Prototype Modelers meet - Newark, CA 4/30/05

San Francisco Bay Area Prototype Modelers meet Bringing together railroad prototype modelers from the steam era to present day. All roads and scales welcome! Saturday, April 30, 2005 10:00 a.m. -

By Rob Sarberenyi <espeef5@...> · #40773 ·

Re: corn syrup

ED I did not say any thing about corn syrup. I said corn oil. Like you get in a bottle to cook with. When I was a yard clerk on the UPRR at Topeka KS on the north side of the UPRR tracks just across

By ljack70117@... · #40778 ·

corn syrup

--- In STMFC@..., ljack70117@a... wrote: I do not know how they extracted coconut oil but they use H2SO4 it get the corn oil. They put the corn in the acid ...... Larry- You are

By ed_mines · #40772 ·

Re: ATSF BX3 (?)

Richard Hendrickson wrote: The definitive reference on Santa Fe box cars is John Richard, I went to the SFRH&MS and apparently the book is sold out, OR, ALL of their books are sold out, OR, their

By Paul Hillman · #40771 ·

Re: ATSF BX3 (?)

Paul Gehrett wrote: Reaching a new low, are they?? <vbg> Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2942 Linden Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

By Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> · #40770 ·

Re: ATSF BX3 (?)

Suncoast is still around. But, they don't make any freight car kits AFAIK. The have several steam era structures listed in the Walthers catalog in both HO and O-scale. I have a few of their O-scale

By Paul Gehrett · #40769 ·

Re: Essential freight cars in RMC

forthcoming (these are ARA single sheathed cars) done already... see alternate ARA single sheathed cars article done under articles about Southern 36' truss rod cars and ARA double sheathed

By Ted Culotta <tculotta@...> · #40768 ·

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