Well, if you plan to do a clinic/seminar in an open fourm and the PRM meet request you offer a handout, then that is when/why you would go to Kinkos and pay the price. No one here that has done that

I have Rob, I think you need to go back to the original source information, the series of articles on the "Dominion car" published by Paul Clegg and Stafford Swain in Mainline Modeler during '85 and

The truck in the image http://www.greenbayroute.com/gbw615truck.jpg is the 40 ton version of the Barber-Bettendorf Swing Motion Caboose Car Truck. This differs from the 30 ton version by the beading

Man, talk about a topic that will not die; now it has jumped threads! All of which technical issues are quite beside the point if the author doesn't choose to make the information available on the

All true but making a PDF file from a scanned image is more time-consuming, requires a different program, and results in very large files... Jack Burgess www.yosemitevalleyrr.com

gary laakso wrote: The important thing about the FOBX cars was the overhead ice bunkers (thus the "Overhead Bunkers" in the reporting mark). They had heavier insulation too, thus the wider

There is a partial color picture taken in May, 1953 in Denver of one of the 4000-4173 class 50 foot fish belly FOBX (FGEX owned marks) on pages 78 and 79 of Trackside Around Granger Country, 1952-1955

Tim O'Connor wrote: scan to a PDF for free? i've had 6 PC's over the years and not one of them can CREATE a PDF file. The Mac print utility can create PDFs. I recently used it to convert a 24

A 54-page PDF file scanned at 100 dpi (marginal quality) and not converted from Word would be about 25 megs....not the thing you can e-mail to people. Jack Burgess www.yosemitevalleyrr.com

In a message dated 7/17/2007 2:07:54 PM Central Daylight Time, STMFC@... writes: All true but making a PDF file from a scanned image is more time-consuming, requires a different program,

There are free programs that will write PDF files nowadays just to keep the information current. A Google search will put you in the right direction. I do agree however that nobody is obligated to

Thanks Jim for the reference to the Westerfield material. Actually, I have quite a number of the Westerfield kits (dark grey resin), but the instruction sheets don't break down the cars with

Ray Stilwell wrote: Different process for different needs. If people need to follow along in a handout DURING the talk, Ray, your suggestion is meaningless. Nice one, suggesting

Pieter Roos wrote: Thanks for setting the record straight, Pieter. Not everyone who complains knows as much as they ought to. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley,

On my Mac I can do a article and then tell it to print. When the print program comes up There is a save to PDF option and if I save to PDF then I can take the PDF and email it where ever I wish. PDF

Tim, These programs allow creation and viewing .pdf files without Adobe's help. Printing from a word processor, spreadsheet, or other program to a .pdf does work. I have not tried converting a

I should have realized I couldn't attach a photo to a posting. I've added an album to the "Photos" section of the group's Yahoo page. Look for "ATSF way car (caboose)" if you're interested, but allow

scan to a PDF for free? i've had 6 PC's over the years and not one of them can CREATE a PDF file -- only the Adobe reader is freeware, not the writer software. But I'm sure if you'll send Bill $449

Hello Mark, I don't claim to be a truck expert either, but the truck in your photo at least resembles the Barber-Bettendorf swing motion caboose truck. In HO, Athearn and Atlas both have

George R. Stilwell, Jr. writes: "This is the 21st century. Who goes to Kinkos and pays their prices when you can scan the handout to a PDF file and distribute it via E-mail for free." Ever tried to