I'm going to 'weigh in' on an -entirely- different scale ... Modeling "scale weight" serves no purpose. It sounds good on the surface but you have to ask your self the question "why"? I suggest

Jigs are easy to make, as well. -- Thanks! Brian "On the workbench, under the stack of Sunshine kits" Ehni

It is easy to forget that Illinois was a large coal producer (is it still?), and at one time there were a fairly large number of producing coal mines in Iowa (a mine on Iowa family land lasted into

Ya know, unless you're using thousands of the things, it takes about 5 seconds to make a corner grab with a pair of pliers and a piece of wire. There are many sizes on the prototype cars, but only a

So basically all model cars should weigh about the same according to length? That's why a 40 ft flatcar would weigh the same as a 40 ft boxcar? Maybe THAT's the reason that one wood, kit-built boxcar

The corner grabs I have are made by Tichy. I don't recall if they are equal leg or not. So I can't say whether they are the same as either of those you have. They are made from a hard copper .010

Sometime ago I purchased several packages of corner grabs for running boards. There were two styles of grabs. in one of the packages the legs on the corner grabs were equal in length. The other

Only if you want to model empty cars! Then, as pointed out in another post, mixing widely differing car weights causes problems on the real RR, and with our exagerated curves and grades, these are

Tim Gilbert wrote: Tim, Upon further review, I remember that in 1966-67 when I was living in a basement apartment in Marietta OH, the apartment was heated by a rather archaic open flame gas

Don't forget that you will have to think on the locomotive drawbar pulling power also. Precision scale and Intermountain makes wheel sets with ball bearings and don't forget to replace the coil

Paul, model trains do not perform like real trains. For one example, the weight of the car on the rail is distributed over an area larger by a factor of 87.1. (The surface area of contact between the

Well, get to work then! :-)

Tony, HUM!!!??? That just brought up another interesting thought to me. Wouldn't it be more true to scale-weight then, to know the prototype-car's empty weight, divide that by the cube of 87.1, (or

timboconnor@... wrote: Je ne sais pas. Tim Gilbert

Tony & Tim, OK, thanks. I see where I erred, in scaling down only 1 dimension of a 3 dimensional object. Paul Hillman

Great coal data, Tim! Why was so little anthracite used in the midwest, compared to NY/NJ/PA? I thought that people really liked burning that sort of coal in their furnaces. Were there sources of

Tony ABS == Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene ^^^^^^ Sheesh. You can take the professor outta the classroom, but... Tim O.

Keith Jordan wrote: I don't know a lot of details on this, but I'd say the answer is "yes." Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Tim O'Connor wrote: Not styrene, but ABS, has rubber particles in it (the "B" stands for butadiene). Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave.,

Paul Hillman wrote: No, it would scale by the volume, which goes as the cube root of the scale. That would make it roughly 1.5 to 2 ounces. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press,