Pat, I agree about most ads in the magazines -- but I have hundreds of photos references that are from advertisements, and they are often the ONLY photo references I have for those prototype

Pat, I really enjoyed and value the passenger cars issue. Someday I hope you'll publish an issue devoted to gas-electrics! Tim "eccentrically dialectically ecletic" O'Connor

ljack70117@... wrote: As did the SOU and T&NO for internal reporting - indeed, I suspect that most roads considered cabooses as loads, but, for ICC Statistical Reporting, Caboose Miles were

Richard, Atlas has been very good about dates for some models recently, posting both built dates and paint-job dates. And of course Kadee was doing it before Branchline. So I think at the "high end"

Just to head Mike off at the pass and to refocus the discussion back onto freight cars only, RP CYC will include articles on passenger cars or other items of interest whenever suitable material

eabracher@... wrote: But very few - mostly local freights on remote lines. Cabooses, buggies, hacks, vans, etc.. may have been on the tail end of most Steam Era Freight Trains. The problem,

Folks, Let us remember that Branchline's Blue Print series has the paint scheme noted on the label; which I appreciate, being a 1953 modeler. How many mistakes have been made by having a

When a conductor on the UN Pac listed his loads and empties in his train, he always counted his caboose as a load. Thank you Larry Jackman ljack70117@...

List, Several on here have mentioned the utter lack of train consists from times past. Having dealt with same for much of my railroad career, consider how ephemeral the data in a consist is to the

Marty.... You don't do a very good job of hiding the identity of the editors that you talk about....and I completely agree with your assessment! <g> Jack Burgess www.yosemitevalleyrr.com

- their until Richard, I tried, without success, to do this when I was at InterMountain. First of all, to be completely accurate you would, as you know, have to indicate the era as a limited window

I was going to reply to this idea of magazines only publishing what they get -- but couldn't come up with the right words. Tony said it far better than I could. Don't think for a minute that it's an

I am one who enjoys passenger train modeling AND operating. I believe passenger train operation is a neglected area of the operations scene. So... leave in the passenger train stuff!

<snip> Amen, brother, amen! Gene Green

For my two cents, I think it would be useful to have in-depth coverage of a particular industry and the steam era freight car traffic it generated. The RMC articles on the tractor manufacturing

Are how to modelling questions about cabooses allowed on this list? Specifically I have a question about lighting techniques (not prototype specific but a "how would you do this?" question).

Actually, she said "Is that a pistol in your pocket or do you think you love me?"

As I am at present working on a HW Pullman and also have been referencing your RPC article, the answer to your question must be YES. So, thank you very much for your work and please keep it

This thread has been both interesting and very instructive. Although I too am very unhappy with the current direction of MR, I am also able to force myself to admit that the hobby needs to have some

That is a great idea, especially if you actually put the grabs on and leave the shadows. That could be pretty awesome, just don't turn the cars! I'm already messing around with paper sides, just