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Re: Stripping paint from resin models?

I have had to strip a few resin models and have used Scalecoat Stripper or lacquer thinner to do the job. I prefer the later. If plastic parts are used on the model, they must be removed before using

By mike_barone@... · #56601 ·

Re: Stripping paint from resin models? Grit Blaster?

I have used my abrasive blaster on a number of resin models with no problems. Be aware though that the resin will have a speckled appearance from the abrasive particles. I suspect what has happened is

By mike_barone@... · #56600 ·

Re: Muncie & Western Boxcar help

Hand me that lame story, Schuyler, and (unsuccessfully trying to suppress a superior smirk) I'll point out that "home" for the MWR's Mather cars wasn't Muncie, IN, but – as for all Mather cars –

By Richard Hendrickson · #56599 ·

Re: Muncie & Western Boxcar help

Brian, I don't have July or Oct '57 ORER, but the April 1957 ORER lists 75 cars for the MWR series 1201-1275 as being in service. A copy of the Oct. '57 ORER is at the Museum of Transportation. If

By Ed Hawkins · #56594 ·

Re: Muncie & Western Boxcar help

Close enough, Brian. Just run it as an empty car, waybilled to return to agt, M&W RR, Muncie, Ind. Anybody (other than me, of course) who gives you s*** about it, you tell them it's on its way

By Schuyler Larrabee · #56597 ·

Re: Muncie & Western Boxcar help

Thanks Ian and Ed, it looks like I can be safe with the Mather Muncie and Western car, and yes it was a purchase inspired by having run the incorrect Train Miniature car (I think it was TM) on a

By Brian J Carlson <brian@...> · #56598 ·

Re: pronunciation of gondola

Really? COOP-a luh here. Not so OT, as someone pointed out. CLEAR-story. SGL

By Schuyler Larrabee · #56596 ·

Re: Muncie & Western Boxcar help

Brian, the 10/57 ORER shows 75 cars in the series 1201-1275, so this should render the 7/57 listing moot (I think I have that issue around here too, but obviously not on the shelf where it

By Ian Cranstone · #56595 ·

Re: Muncie & Western Boxcar help

Tim the 125 boxcars on the MWR in 1959 were steel cars in the 1301-1425 series, and leased from the Chicago Freight Car Leasing Co. They were not Mather cars. I don't see any Mather Box cars listed

By Brian J Carlson <brian@...> · #56593 ·

Re: new books

Eric Hansmann wrote: Though announced for the Philadelphia NMRA national, it has been delayed several times. To my knowledge, it has not been delivered from the printer yet. Tony Thompson

By Tony Thompson · #56591 ·

Re: DF ????????

Malcolm Laughlin wrote: An interesting statement, as the articles in Railway Age announcing this new product referred to it as a product of Evans, not mentioning GATC. Evans and

By Tony Thompson · #56592 ·

Re: Muncie & Western Boxcar help

Brian, According to the 1959 MOODY'S TRANSPORTATION MANUAL, the Muncie & Western on 12/31/1958 (& 12/31/1962 per the 1963 MOODY's) owned two locomotives and leased 125 box cars from, I assume,

By Tim Gilbert <tgilbert@...> · #56590 ·

Re: Muncie & Western Boxcar help

Thanks Ed, That's a bummer. Does anyone have the July or Oct 1957 copies to check. My layout is set in August 1957. Brian J Carlson P.E. Cheektowaga NY

By Brian J Carlson <brian@...> · #56588 ·

Re: new books

Ed Mines wrote: "How about the freight car book with photos taken in Harrisburg scheduled for release at the last NMRA convention (or was it the convention before that)?" And Ben Hom wrote: It's

By Eric Hansmann <ehansmann@...> · #56586 ·

Re: resin kit instructions

I missed the start of this thread, but I have just finished a Milwakee Box with a eight rung latter. The kit intends for you to cut and splice two of the provided latters together.....Best Jim

By Jim Williams <wwww5960@...> · #56585 ·

Re: Ambroid Intruction Sheet Needed

Frank, You might check with NMRA's Kalmbach Library. They have a substantial collection of kit instructions. CJ Riley --- parkvarieties <parkvarieties@...>

By cj riley <cjriley42@...> · #56584 ·

Ambroid Intruction Sheet Needed

I am in need of a full size copy of the instruction sheet for Ambroid's 1 of 5000 #10 kit Speedy Poultry & Reefer car (not the Livesay car). If anyone can make me a copy, I'll send them $1.00

By parkvarieties <parkvarieties@...> · #56583 ·

Re: resin kit instructions

I used Detail Associates 8 rung ladders for the ATSF car and DesPlaines Hobbies Canadian 8 rung ladders for the MP car. Just cut off the stirrup steps from the Canadian ladders. I also used the

By Bill Darnaby · #56581 ·

Muncie & Western Boxcar help

I made an impulse buy this week at the LHS, and picked up a Mather Muncie & Western Boxcar. I've found 160 of them in my 1955 ORER but they are not in my 1959 ORER. Can someone please check a late

By Brian J Carlson <brian@...> · #56582 ·

Re: Muncie & Western Boxcar help

In a message dated 9/22/2006 5:54:59 P.M. Central Standard Time, brian@... writes: I made an impulse buy this week at the LHS, and picked up a Mather Muncie & Western Boxcar. I've

By Edward Dabler · #56587 ·

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