--- In STMFC@..., "Fred in Vt." <pennsy@s...> wrote: Without fail, you toss it out, and 3 weeks later an article appears which uses said dumpster fodder as the starting point. Rather

Garth, These are what you need: http://www.discounttrainsonline.com/Athearn-Genesis-Trucks-70-Ton-Roller-Bearing-Trucks/item141-4598.html Hope that helps some... Stefan Lerché Duncan,

Friends, I am building a WP 29' coil gondola (series 6401-6500, built by Greenville, 1953). These came with ASF-A3 roller bearing trucks, the first large-scale application on the WP. I have a hard

How about all those hulks of real railroad rolling stock rotting away in museums? With those Ulrich cars it's remembering what they once were. Those WWII gons vere really something when they first

Me too. The HO layout I half built when I was a teenager was left for dead at my parents house 35 years ago. When it came time for my brothers and I to clean out the house a couple of years ago,

Put it in the trash. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax, (510) 540-1937;

Tony, That being the case, what did you do with the brass, fiber tie track? Fred F

I may have a solution to our problem.Let's swap stashes.I may have some stuff that someone else might want,etc,etc,etc.Simply put, I too have more than I will ever need and yet keep adding to the

brakes. tank train I have noticed the same thing- I think it reflects where the train pipe crosses the center sill. The old MCB recommended practice was for it to cross near one of the trucks

Brothers, Some of you guys need to be more mobile. All it takes is one cross-country move to realize that keeping dead projects isn't worth the cost of the move. For that matter, they're not worth

Fellow Listers, Did the Santa Fe ever produce a freightcar diagram book for the 1950's, or any other time period, for that matter? Obviously Mssr's Hendrickson, Jordan, et.al. got the material for

I have a number of Athearn metal AAR box car sides from the late 1940's available for anyone wishing to use them for loads. These are just the car sides, not the wrap-around shell used in later

--- Jim Hill wrote: surplus models newcomers model =============================================== We built a 2x8 HO scale switching layout at our club. This is taken on the road to all sorts of

The photo I have seen looks more like DANX than CANX. With the buffing/sanding they did it isn't real clear. And Danville, IL to L&N makes more sense (L&N 40605 per their website:

The old Life-Like train-set tanker was also derived from the old Varney kit. Doug Brown

How about recycling? I know the plastics involved are of mostly lesser quality. But shredding up some brass and pour a new kit from it? Or collect Athearns and make IMs? In Europe we have a

In a message dated 8/10/2005 4:45:43 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, golden1014@... writes: Some of you guys need to be more mobile. All it takes is one cross-country move to realize that

Jim Hill wrote: I don't agree. This is in the same direction as giving them old brass track (showing my age on that one). Don't give 'em crap: give 'em something they can enjoy, and make sure

Tom, You put your finger on the problem -- disposal. It's too heart wrenching to throw out a perfectly good kit, so we sell it, and make it someone else's problem. Also, we can refer to buyers as