Hi all, Does anyone on this list collect/have timebooks or wheel reports for Missouri Pacific employees in Illinois? I am particularly interested in timebooks and/or wheel reports from MoPac

Help please. I am looking for a current address for a Mr Alvin Smith, last known to be living in British Columbia. Mr Smith is a purveyor of railroad photographs, including, undoubtedly, freight

I forgot to mention 5 X the drill diameter is a deep hole and care needs to be taken when drilling that deep or deeper. Thank you Larry Jackman ljack70117@...

You are right on Carbon Steel bits. They would not make them if some body did not have a use for them. But I have written about speed of a bit in plastic before. Speed is not the reason your plastic

But there, like a coelacanth, it is. :-) Interestingly, though, the boxcar carries a builder's date of 3/53. The *1*/53 ORER shows no Air Force cars at all, suggesting that this was one of the Air

Pat Wider wrote: But Pat, how can this be? Richard H. firmly told us there were no such cars <g>. Anthony Thompson 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 (510) 540-6538; fax, (510)

Yes, but for someone modeling the AC&F Milton plant on a specific day (say March 26, 1943), they would need Frontenac decals! No? (-: Pat Wider

All true and all dependent upon the material being drilled, whether the drill bit is dry or has cooling fluid passing over it, the feed rate or pressure being applied, and the drilling speed being

I've just loaded a builders' photo of a U.S. Air Force (USAFX) PS-1 box car. Yes, I know it's not a tank car but I'm still looking! I also have very similar photos of new PS-1 box cars lettered for

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the STMFC group. File : /USAFX 26905.jpg Uploaded by : patrickwider

Pat Wider wrote: True about plastic, but some of us actually drill brass and stuff, Pat. The carbon steel dulls a lot faster, whatever it's being drilled into; softens far easier if overheated

My better drill bits just have "HS" on their shanks allowing the designation to be placed on smaller sizes. (-: I'm curious, if a modeler just uses them to drill holes in soft plastic toy train

Bob CB&Q cars as follows 46425 class XA-10, originally built as XA-5 in 1913 by H&B, rebuilt at Aurora in 1926 95161 class XM-10 built 1904 by WSC&F 102772 class XM-11 built 1907 by Pullman 104516

Folks, The PRR Projects group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PRRPro/) will be starting our H21 project on February 14. With a wide range of models of the H21 available we expect participants from

Hi Guys! In 1945 the AC&Y purchased five foreign road boxcars, CNW 42186, CB&Q 104516, CB&Q 102772, CB&Q 95161 and CB&Q 46425. The CNW car had been wrecked on line while the CB&Q cars were received

I just received this message from Arnold Menke. For those who don't know, Will was one of the pioneer photographers of rolling stock; and for those who didn't know him, one of the planet's

<jimandlisa97225@v...> wrote: Jim, sorry to be so late to the party, but one of the oil terminals in Portland has a storage tank with a large Flying A logo still visible, although very faded. You can

Upon further inspection, Ted Schenpf (dba Rails Unlimited, http://users.foxvalley.net/~railsunl/ ) only has the Milwaukee and Chicago & North Western guides for sale. I have an original UP. The

SHPX, yes, several hundred cars. Frontenac, NO, NO, NO! Let's not let this error, understandable though it is, get into any further circulation than it already has. New cars built by AC&F were

Thanks for the link Pieter, Great looking loco, even if it isn't really a "Coast Guard" Loco. Peter J. McClosky ====== pieter_roos wrote: -- -- Peter J. McClosky Formerly of Los Angeles, CA Now