Hello everyone, I'm looking for some information regarding the as-delivered paint and details for some Katy 40ft steel boxcars from series MKT 91501-92000. I haven't had any luck finding photos,

Dennis Storzek wrote The ideal medium for this information is a Wiki, moderated by enough experts (like Wikipedia has) to expunge bogus information. We started a mailing list a while back to explore

I'm trying to track down what a couple of weigh station symbols meant: DS on the Boston & Maine and J on the Lackawanna. Can anyone help me out? Richard Hendrickson

I only wish for one hobby advancement -- a very small (about the size of a baby aspirin) programmable "AEI" tag so we could retire all the car cards and buttons and other means that we use to

Walter, The most common source for info such as this was/is the Car Builder's Cyclopedia (originally Car Builder's Dictionary, later Car & Locomotive Cyclopedia) published periodically every couple

That all seems plausible, Tom, but the prototype for the model in question (if there actually was a prototype) could not have been used for anything but on-site storage, since the WEX reporting

Yes, but those were ICC-105s for LPG service; they were not (and could not have been) used to haul diesel fuel or heating oil. Richard Hendrickson

Denny Anspach wrote: Most likely. Those of us in the Bell Labs research area weren't subjected to the full Bell System corporate brainw ^H^H^H^H^H^H philosophy and history seminars. But my

Dear Ed Nearly thirty years ago, when I first changed over to O scale and had both larger surfaces to deal with and a greater impetus for better-detail, I tried shellac. It took several years for it

Tim, GPS for my power? If I can't find my train, then it's time to stop using the layout. My question now is >> does this have interference from the garage opener, portable phones, or CB

Standard Oil (Esso) also used LGX reporting marks in the Northeast. I have a scan of a 1945 ACF LPG tank lettered "Essotane Cooking Gas" I have a 1950's shot of a Warren tank car in Maine but I don't

This Red Ball Western Electric flat car kit K-51 with cable reels is listed by Howell Day as being "1920" which may explain to some degree its absence from the usual ORERs. Hauling cable reels or

Check the 1940 ORERs and you will not find any Maine-based tank car operators that would have shipped diesel fuel or heating oil - or even New England-based operators, for that matter. Such

I'm currently building a 3'x4' diorama of a mythical but quite plausible Maine coastal seaport set in 1940 where a narrow gauge line from the interior intersected with the standard gauge main line

Greg, He said transmitters and ceiling mounted receivers -- that sounds wireless to me. But it sounds completely impractical. Where are you going to put a transmitter in a switcher that is already

Kadee freight cars use no adhesive at all. You can take them completely apart and put them back together again. Just be careful with the delicate parts. Also I've noticed Athearn uses minimum glue on

The majority of M.Dale Newton's Red Ball stock was lost in a catastrophic fire at his Medford, OR "plant" in c. 1943; the result being that production of so many of his original kits, printed sides,

Jim, I've found most of the RTR cars that I have are pretty well done -- of course that is why I bought them. As far as modifications go I tend to use the same technology that I used on

A real good starting point is Richard Hendrickson's article in RP CYC 4. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

As Richard already commented, there isn't but Carbuilders Cyclopedias contain builders plugs on their own equipment plus a section on parts details. Not all inclusive nor that readily