Justing, got this message from Gene the other day. He is doing very well. Doug Harding Iowa Central Railroad http://d.harding.home.mchsi.com <http://d.harding.home.mchsi.com/> Sent: Wednesday,

Scott wrote: should we care? Is it a different prototype than the Walthers model? They look almost identical. The Broadway version costs a couple dollars more.<< Bruce wrote: AFAIK, they

Mike, I didn't go to Cinnci but the name of the business is King Mill Enterprises. They have released a very nice kit of the N&W depot at Green Cove (made famous in an O. Winston Link photo) as a kit

Actually, by ca. 1930 there were only two tank car manufacturers in the U.S., AC&F and General American, (plus one in Canada, Canadian Car & Foundry), and the two tank car designs that were being

Jeff, The only thing that comes to mind after hearing this is that one could potentially have custom flat car decks and roof walks. It sounds like the technology might allow that, but not the

This is an interesting thread and, since it does bear on the possibilities of bringing production and semi-production freight cars to market, I think fairly relevant to this list. A group of us have

Mike, I had Chris Jesse, owner of King Mill, make me a Deck for a SN3 PBL flat adn had him bore 168 holes so I could put Tichy rivets in to simulate carriage bolts. Very nice.He claims that he

Mike, I've seen the company's website, and I was very disappointed. They require you to use their proprietary software, which is VERY restrictive, and they will only cut wood. Their software only

Thomas Olsen asked: "The other question here is whether Ben Hom ever got his car order from Aaron from two years ago? Ben was the last one waiting for Aaron to send him his car." I did, back in

Rich Yoder asked: "Does anyone know how to get in touch with Al Kresse?" The latest C&O Historical Magazine lists Al's contact info as: Al Kresse 8664 Gates Romeo MI

I visited a freind last night that had attended the Cinci NMRA convention. He saw a company that was planning to sell software soon which would design CAD patterns to do laser cutting. The modeler

Thanks to both Tony and Richard (the two resident experts did each take a swing at it). I wondered about SP, as they did have singlesheathed 50' door-and-a-half cars in several varieties, but if Tony

The other question here is whether Ben Hom ever got his car order from Aaron from two years ago? Ben was the last one waiting for Aaron to send him his car. Tom Olsen 7 Boundary Road, West

Tim O'Connor wrote: Challenging goals, but interesting. And you're very, very close, Tim: I might even give you an A- on it: it was actually G-50-26. BTW, there are also photos of 1920s GS

Getting back to actual freight cars... Has anyone seen any photos of the NP stock car as produced by Aaron in ND? I have a second series kit(nice moldings Tom), and would like to pick a different #

Ed, If this is the magazine you mention, is it also referred to as TRP, The Railroad Press? When I can get it, I look forward to the articles written by Mike Bednar. Great insights to the Lehigh

But Paul, that's an entirely different equation -- SPH&TS doesn't do custom tooling, it just does custom paint. Many vendors will do this at very reasonable prices. My club has raised thousands of

Anyone familiar with "Railroad Prsss magazine"? Ed

Perhaps if you wait long enough, that fellow from Auburn will write them up in The Keystone Modeler. ;-) -Jeff -- Jeff Aley jaley@... DPG Chipsets Product

locomtives AutoCAD. the same Chuck, Is it easier to create a CAD drawing for RP as compared to doing drawings for injection-molding? I am under the impression that I could easily do a CAD drawing