Beckert, Shawn wrote: It's a shorter flight to Chicago, and though nearly as far to fly to Florida as Massachusetts, the January weather differs a tad. Bob's Photos has always been at both.

I wrote: I forgot to mention that by the 1928 Cyclopedia, there were passenger roller bearing trucks shown (for PRR and SP) but at that time, no freight trucks with such bearings. Tony

Okay, More than a few people here have said the Springfield show is "the best bar none". I have yet to hear the reason why. What's the attraction - more tables, more freight car stuff...more

Springfield is the biggest, I'm not sure if "the best" applies. It's the pits to park at, it is the pits to try to walk around at, and you have to have sharpened elbows and you have to tune your ears

Well...it's that time of year again. I usually begin powering up Prototype Rails in Cocoa Beach, FL, at about this time of the year. And, since there have been a few comments about it, now's as good a

You chicken littles are depriving yourselves of the finest train show in the country. A little snow, a little ice, no problem. Dave Owens

Like Richard, I did my time in New England going to graduate school. I've never since missed those winters in any way, shape or form and certainly have no interest in doing it again. There's a

Ben Hom wrote: The SP paint scheme on #4301 is for a B-50-14 box car with Z-bar bracing, NOT a USRA car. As Ben says, there is some general appearance similarity, but many discrepancies,

I have also herd this called a "flying switch" or a "Chinese switch"

I heard the same complaint about scanning from a man who used to offer prints from copy negatives from the ACF collection - he had a 100 page catalog of negatives. The solution is simple - a policy

branchline@... wrote: This Tim is a bit wiser - stay in the car with a mug of coffee until just before the doors open. Also, bring a broom to sweep the snow away when leaving. Tim

Paul Hillman wrote: The normal term in that period was "journal bearing," which of course refers to the journal on which the bearing rests, and there was no need to distinguish between

Jeez Tony, you West Coast types really are wimps... :>) In fact, its not a real Springfield show if it doesn't snow at least one day... A few years back we had a blizzard the first morning of

Thomas M. Olsen wrote: Well said, Tom. I have heard the same of experienced crews elsewhere. The fact that the move is obviously dangerous and can go wrong, does NOT mean it went wrong all the

Tim O'Connor wrote: In January. You ARE kidding. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510)

Keith, This is a good address for Mr. Vollrath. His phone no. is 816-942-3423, listed at www.switchboard.com. Regards, Ed Hawkins [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Brian, The photo man you seek is; Bob Liljistrand 37 Spring St Ansonia, Ct. 06401 [203]-734-6666 No catalog & No website/e-mail Fred Freitas Bennington, Vt

facing to What ever it is called, I want to know if there is anyone out there who does this on their layout. If anyone has I would like to know how it is accomplished in the model world. Jared

This is a drop not dutch drop. A dutch drop can be done as I did one when I was a switchman on John Santa Fe in Emporia Ks. Missed our engine by about 3 feet. Using a alco S4. It is very dangerous to

wrote: to the car was rolling car, trailing point putting the the brakeman to get My impression of the Dutch Drop was that, to get a car into a facing point spur, the engine sped up and then the