I wrote: "The July/August 2005 issue of the C&OHS magazine "C&O History" has a 9-page article on the 9500-9599 series cars..." This correction IS due to a typo. The correct number series is

Scott Pitzer wrote: "C&O had a handful of aluminum box cars, but they've got nothing to do with this auto car kit... maybe he means for you to use the diagram as a guide for layout of the WHITE

Who knew "vice" was a preposition. This fifty-year-old American egghead never saw the word used this way. Do you pronounce it vIs, vI-sEE, or vEE-chAY? --- benjaminfrank_hom

Dean Payne asked: "OK Ben, what is "grimy vice paint?" I expect it's a typo, but I can't make heads nor tails of it." It's not a typo. "Grimy vice [instead of] paint" means that the roof of the car

Ed Mines wrote: "I believe I first learned about van Dorn ends in "Mainline Modeler". May[be] a Cyril Durrenburger article?" No. John Nehrich's "More ends", Mainline Modeler, February 1987,

Roger,Can't help but agree.I would like to see different booms so one could convert it into a 90 ton version.Armand Premo

I've forwarded your request to the North_American_M-O-W list at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/North_American_M-O-W/ Peter Bowers -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG

Kurt Johnson wrote. Does anyone have any thoughts of improvements or corrections for Tichy's 120 Ton wrecking crane? This is a beautiful kit as is, I just picked up a new one. I had built this

I recall we discussed spiraled gon end several months ago. I believe I first learned about van Dorn ends in "Mainline Modeler". May a Cyril Durrenburger article? Anyway there's a railroad produced,

I'm not the MDT scholar that Roger Hinman is, but even I know that MDT 9000 is an all-steel reefer, not a wooden or composite car. Charles Harmantas

any Roger, Maybe you do and there's some error in the description of the photo. Left to right the computer generated list reads - MDT, 9000, reefer, wood Rochester NY, Jan-47, at Despatch shops in

Don, IN HO scale, Microscale set 87-975, "Hazardous material Placards for Freight Cars (1945-1970) might be what you are looking for. The sheet has many useful placards of the type Tony mentions, not

The Bachman 4-6-0 has two different boiler and driver heights, different headlight/smokeboxes, and a number of different tender types. It is an attempt to make a standard locomotive into a reasonable

Does anyone have any thoughts of improvements or corrections for Tichy's 120 Ton wrecking crane? This is a beautiful kit as is, I just picked up a new one. I had built this kit once before, many

Gateway Model Railroad Club in Brooklawn, New Jersey has an open house this weekend Saturday the 14th and Sunday the 15th. Address is 100 Browning Road, Brooklawn, NJ, 08030. Just off Route 42 to

OK Ben, what is "grimy vice paint?" I expect it's a typo, but I can't make heads nor tails of it. Dean Payne

Scott said: maybe he means for you to use the diagram as a guide for layout of the WHITE lettering on your box car. (Does that diagram have the Progress logo or not?) Yes, I'm thinking this was

Don, I hope your friend is going to buy you a bottle of something... such as asprin! C&O had a handful of aluminum box cars, but they've got nothing to do with this auto car kit... maybe he means for

Yes Ben, I mis read his orginal letter. The car number is to be "# 9742" and a "new date of 7-48". The box has #6770 but, doesn't have the instruction sheet but, does have decals. I thought, that I

Sirs, Bachmann has released a Baldwin 4-6-0 "Ten Wheeler" steamloco. http://www.liliput.de/artikelausgabe.php?a_id=456&vzaus=bachmann_spectrum_h0 Is the U.P. version correct? Till what year did they