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As-delivered paint scheme, Ann Arbor 1400-1409

Hello everyone, I'm looking for some information on the as-delivered paint scheme of Ann Arbor Railroad PS-1, 40ft boxcars, from series AA 1400-1409. These cars were part of Pullman-Standard Lot

By Mark Heiden · #69058 ·

Re: Steam Era Freight Car Website

I just accessed it. Mansell Peter Hambly COQUITLAM, B.C.

By Mansell Peter Hambly · #69057 ·

Re: NYC Trailer Train Prototypes

Jace, Your friend is absolutely correct. The Pacemaker trailers were used for local pick-up and delivery in association with the box-car based, expedited LCL service that the Pacemaker name

By Jeff English · #69056 ·

Re: Steam Era Freight Car Website

From what I recall, there hasn't been much activity on that site for the last several months or so.

By Carl J. Marsico <Carlmarsico@...> · #69055 ·

Re: Steam Era Freight Car Website

Whois says it only expired Wednesday, 16 January... He may be able to get it back. -------------------- Richard Brennan - San Leandro CA --------------------

By Richard Brennan <brennan8@...> · #69054 ·

Re: Steam Era Freight Car Website

Too bad-there was a good amount of useful info on there... Carl J. Marsico

By Carl J. Marsico <Carlmarsico@...> · #69053 ·

Re: NP reefer plans?

Hi Jim, Wow, 4 rolls of film of the NP reefers! I don't know exactly what I'd need that would enable a scratchbuild without dimensions other then the basic length, width, height, etc. I am curious

By Bud Rindfleisch · #69052 ·

Re: Steam Era Freight Car Website

Looks like Ted let the domain name expire. Tom Madden

By Tom Madden <tgmadden@...> · #69051 ·

Steam Era Freight Car Website

Does anybody know what happened to this website? It looks like the link now has a new owner. Thanks. Joe Charleston, WV

By Josef Horter · #69050 ·

NYC Trailer Train Prototypes

I recently bought one of the full-scale Lionel trailer on flat car sets, intending to convert it to two-rail. The trailers are painted very nicely in the Pacemaker scheme, but another O scaler is

By Justin Kahn · #69049 ·

Re: Harold K. Vollrath

I can agree! Recently we needed 4" letters of the "Empire Builder" logo for repainting the John McLaughlin at IRM. I was able to scan an 8x10 Pullman builder's photograph on two scanners but ran

By tedander2000 · #69048 ·

silver halide photography

I was just repeating what Mr. Vollrath told me about the demise of silver halide photography. Maybe he's just tired of printing negatives; he doesn't seem to need any more money. So has anyone had

By ed_mines · #69047 ·

NS lowside gon

Hey guys, need a bit of help here. WrightTRAK is looking for photos of Original NS low side gons. Any help is greatly appreciated. Regards, Denis Blake Marysville, OH

By seaboard_1966 · #69303 ·

Forgot the link

Here is the link http://www.ismrif.org/db/showAll.asp Denis Blake Marysville, OH

By seaboard_1966 · #69302 ·

Re: Elden Gatwood, your server is blocking email too

Tom; I am sorry! I do not like this set-up. Try elden.j.gatwood "at" usace "dot" army "dot" mil And if that doesn't work, let me know and I will speak to IT. Thanks, Elden

By Gatwood, Elden J SAD <Elden.J.Gatwood@...> · #69046 ·

Elden Gatwood, your server is blocking email too

Very sorry to take up the bandwith here. Elden, I've tried sending two emails to your address as listed in TKM, one with an attachment and one without, both with benign subjects. Both bounced and your

By Tom Madden <tgmadden@...> · #69045 ·

Re: Question re 12-Panel boxcars

Tim; You are right. My C&BT X29B has rivets the size of my fist (well, if I was little, that is). Elden ________________________________ From: STMFC@...

By Gatwood, Elden J SAD <Elden.J.Gatwood@...> · #69044 ·

Re: Question re 12-Panel boxcars

The C&BT tooling is pretty crude by current standards.

By Tim O'Connor · #69043 ·

Re: Harold K. Vollrath

An important factor in pulling detail out of shadows is the scanner's "dynamic range". You can find inexpensive scanners now with a DR above 3.2, which is very good. But note that DR claims can be

By Tim O'Connor · #69042 ·

Re: Harold K. Vollrath

Rufus, do you know the size (pixel dimensions) of the scans on the NP freight car CD's? I usually avoid CD's because scans are often 1024x768 or some other 'tiny' format... (my screen size is

By Tim O'Connor · #69041 ·

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