Thanks, "ex-dark room guy", I seem to remember something about glycol also. But it's been such a long time that I sometimes can't remember my own name. Paul Hillman

Roger, They did and I had one. The flywheel was powered by a rubberband to a plastic drum pulley mounted on one of the axles. It performed much like a rubberband. Most of my cars have Interrmountain

Sort of. This is ONLY true if the negative is crystal sharp. The great majority, especially 35 mm, are far from truly sharp. In such a case the INFORMATION content may not exceed 5 MB,

At last! A genuine freight car question. "External bracing" or, more correctly, "external framing" is any method of house car construction in which the framing is outside the sheathing. In the

I wasn't quibbling about the reason(s), just pointing out the absence. The cross-section of one is kind of a hat (inverted U), the other is a Z. Tony Thompson

Tim,I always looked forward to Steve's display of milk cars at Springfield.No question ,Steve is ahead of the curve.I didn't mean to imply that all_ the good modelers attended RPM meets....,just some

Tony, In fairness to Martin, I would not pay up front & not have a guaranteed spot on the floor. Some folks are getting over-inflated, and need a reality check. As for Al, that was a

Paul, Soak them in water till they seperate, you will lose the glossy finish. You will need a towel and some books to dry them flat. If you know a person who does there own prints or a lab, they may

wrote: (short of a $3,000.00 digital camera, etc.), but it looks like the "old" print system is definitely on the way out. I used to develop my own film and prints a few years back. I still have a

Did not NWSL offer a flywheel chassis that could be used with an Athern box car to simulate train momentum?

Yeah, not quite sure what the current, real quality of digital is, (short of a $3,000.00 digital camera, etc.), but it looks like the "old" print system is definitely on the way out. I used to develop

Beckert, Shawn wrote: If you're getting your photos printed at a minilab, you're already getting digital prints. All the modern minilabs scan the negs and then print digitally to photo paper. This

Guys, This article is taken from USA Today. You might want to take a look: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2005-08-25-kodak-cuts_x.htm The freight car connection should be

I can just imagine the stories from the steep-incline, multiple- grade, multiple switch-back logging railroads, about these "Double- Dutch-Drops", IE); "Yeah, one day we tried a triple,

Non-roller bearings were labor intensive with the checking and adding of lubrication. With higher labor rates and lower parts cost, the break-even point favored roller bearings. Roller bearings also

Thomas M. Olsen wrote: And Westerfield has told us he went once and isn't going again. So Springfield isn't exactly presenting "all the big resin producers." Tony Thompson Editor,

This is a "drop". The "Dutch Drop" has the loco speed ahead, throw a switch, then loco REVERSES and goes hidey-hole into the spur, switch thrown again, and car rolls past. Its that reversing that gets

My thoughts were motorized momentum in the cars, or flywheel driven momentum in the cars. DCC is too much for individual cars when it is possible to simply (yeah, right!) have the car sense its own

More like the application of fuel prices and safety issues (i.e., liability claims) that moved railroads to roller bearings. Fuel at the time that article was written (1903) was virtually a zero

Canadian Pacific had an interesting "double dutch drop??" in Kaslo and probably one of the longest movements of tat type. The inbound train left the van on the mainline with brake on as it was an