Hello everyone, I'm going to paint a couple of freight cars and I'd like some suggestions as to what paints (preferably water-based) I should use. The first car is a Chicago & North Western 40ft

i know it's not Sherman Hill, but.... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6573970362 tim o.

Denny, Sacramento has always been known for the volume of heated rhetoric that eminates from the state capital, no matter who's in charge. I claim the right to this opinion, since I lived in

5700-5749 were Express boxcars, same class as the Overnights cars but different number series "Beckert, Shawn" <shawn.beckert@...> wrote: Mike Brock wrote: I don't have a roster in front of

As a Postal Worker, maintenance tech, I can vouch that there is much improvement. The machines run much faster and can shred many more pieces per hour. George Hollwedel "Miller, Andrew S."

Shawn BE-50-24's were express cars. B-50-24's were Overnight box cars. Some BE-50-24's remained in that role into the late 1960's, long after the end of Overnight service. Tim O.

Is that ad hominem personal comment, Garth :-) ? Denny -- Denny S. Anspach, MD Sacramento

It did. Bill Schneider

<snip> Anyone else remember when you used to be able to send Christmas cards for a lower rate if the envelope wasn't sealed? Dennis Storzek Yes, and delivery three times a day the two weeks

Scott, Not all the hand signals were in books, There were many peculiar to railroads and specific localities. The one the Erie guys used in Lima, Ohio, to indicate "The cut is clear of Hoover St. and

<snip> Anyone else remember when you used to be able to send Christmas cards for a lower rate if the envelope wasn't sealed? Dennis Storzek Yes, and delivery three times a day the two weeks

I can't say that I ever tried to learn the lantern and hand signals I've seen in books, but I'm sure I don't remember "The Strike Is On!" being one of them! Scott Pitzer

Mike Brock wrote: I don't have a roster in front of me, but I think the 5700 series were B-50-24's that were built for express and "Overnight" service. Thus they would have had steam and signal hoses

Tony Thompson writes: Not only that. The late Terry Metcalfe's UP Modeler, Vol 1, shows photos of the consist of the UP Fast Mail in 1957 in Nebraska. Included is SP 5713 box car fitted with steam

Andy in Boston asked: We'll have to see about December, but today it's headed for the high 80's and the Santa Ana's have kicked in. We're running around in shorts and T-shirts getting all the

Andy, Californians used to ski, but that was before all the hot air from Sacramento raised the temperature. ;-) Kind regards, Garth G. Groff Miller, Andrew S. wrote:

You mean it gets cold in CA in December? All the propaganda about CA weather, on which I was brought up is not true?! Next thing I know you'll tell me people ski in California!

--- In STMFC@..., "Beckert, Shawn" <shawn.beckert@d...> wrote: One of the latest images posted on the Los Angeles Public > Library web site shows ordinary boxcars being loaded with >

Andy Miller. wrote: Not quite as much in December, Andy. <g> Sort of true. Westbound loaded cars were about 20 per cent of the total, year in and year out; and remember, PFE got paid

Matthew, 110 cars received 3-52, 18100-18209. Ed Hawkins