List, How many of you have called the 800 number for the hotel and have gotten the "we are almost sold out" answer? This is because the folks at the National Reservations for Holiday Inn are holding

Certainly true for post 1906, I wonder if we can get the current publisher to allow Google to put it up on the web like the earlier editions? Jim

Mark, I started to prepare my reply and then received Richard's reply to your message. The 500 cars were built by Mount Vernon (Division of Pressed Steel Car Co.), lot 11047. A builder's photo of

Your problem was that you used shellac that was too old. Most shellac has a shelf life of one year, and the date is always on the can. Failure to dry is the issue with old shellac. I have

There's a builder's 3/4 view of M-K-T 91805 in the 1953 Car Builders' Cyclopedia. No; the entire car appears (in this b/w photo) to be the same color. No. Apex-type steel grid. Equipco Type

+Given the compressability of wood, I don't think this is necessary. Besides, the chances that you completely sealed the interior are extremely remote. -- Atty Raymond G. Meyer 110 E. Main St Port

George - No, the cars will be available for a year. - Al

Those already exist, more or less. The are called RFID tags (which is what AEIs are too) and are available as small (1 x 1 inch, 1 x 3/8 inch, and similar) self-adhesive films less than .020 thick.

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