My understanding of your hypothesis is that the cars were built with a standard 40' 6" IL and DS wood ends. When rebuilt with thinner steel ends they gained an extra foot or so of IL. This implies

I 6", Underframe" The owned it.) Larry - Is it possible that these cars were all old furniture cars? The 80,000 lbs capy would seem to indicate this. Dennis may also be correct as to replacement of

Really??? Cool! I can't wait to see the ads for the new SAL B6 from Atlas in TT scale! ;) Frank Valoczy

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Aha, now we get to the bottom of the problem!!!! Don't you know the only sure way to get a model produced is to finally finish a scratchbuilt or involved kitbash of your object of

Ray, don't be so hard on yourself! My personal satisfaction from doing the best I can to build a model will always override the knowledge that thousands of "clones" are running around or sitting on

According to whom is your work diminished? Apply a little reductio ad adsurdum and you realize that ALL your creative work is inevitably diminished because the whole history of the postwar hobby

I am not trying to be derogatory; I am saying that I don't see the RTR collector and the craftsman as being in the same hobby. There is a common thread of trains but that is all. I guess I get irked

Smoky Mountain Not Smokey Valley Thank you Larry Jackman Boca Raton FL ljack70117@... I was born with nothing and I have most of it left

It's Tim, Which brings us a full circle to the original discussion of "do-it-yourself" 3-D printing. I now finally have available the images I need to make my point that it's not quite ready for

Larry, I can give it a good guess. Very likely these are cars that were built with DS wood ends, then rebuilt with pressed steel ends. The original end framing, which relied on the depth (thickness?)

While exporing the data in the Excel version of the July 1950 ORER, I noticed the following: All boxcars with IL greater than or equal to 40' 10" and less than 49' 9", for which I know the siding

Ray- One of the strengths of Model Railroading is that it has such a broad range of activities that you can become involved with.... Is it necessary to make "Toy Trains" and "RTR" derogatory terms?

Dennis Storzek <destorzek@...> wrote Dennis I agree with you that custom parts are going to cost more, because of the small scale of production. But what of it? We are there already. It's not

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Selling what hobby? Collecting toy trains? If that's someone's bag, so be it. But I guess I belong to a different hobby, one that prizes craftsmanship (as I suspect you do). I never understood

Guys; I wouldn't buy a pre-weathered model to save my life. I view weathering as one of the fun things I get to do. However, what sells is another thing. I would never have guessed that

Jewelers use rubber molds to produce wax masters all the time. For those who want to dabble in casting their own freight car parts, I recommend: "The Complete Metalsmith" by Tim McCreight "Practical