Well, a long shot, but worth asking... Does anyone know where I might find photos of freight equipment (pref. late 40s, early 50s, interchanged or not) of the roads in the list to follow? The why

Sorry about that Tony. I have really appreciated your accurate answers and descriptions of Engineering Materials or Refrigerator cars. Please bear with me. I was a BSCE in 1953 in Water Supply and

I've had some involvement using Federal Standard paints. In an earlier, more optimistic era, I hoped to match a lot of CPR colours. The problems are identical to those with Pantone or any other

The Federal Standard that someone mentioned, FED-STD-595, covers, oh, around 800 colors or so that have been standardized for Federal *paint* procurement. The sets use actual paint, not ink, and

Kurt Laughlin wrote: Good point. Wonder which post Lindsay was referring to? Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Larry, I think 95 percent of STMFC/RPM type modelers would be satisfied with a 95 percent "accurate" REPRODUCABLE, quantified color match (however one wants to measure accuracy) since 95 percent of

Excellent ideas, Charlie. Rob Simpson somewhat, but it seems an important enough general problem hasn't gone anywhere. artists, paint chemists, or even color theorists that can jump in and make

Tim, I bookmaked the site you sent in the link as apparently this is the only Kodachrome lab left and it also offers other discontinued slide developing which will be good for future reference.

Mark your railroad calendars for Saturday, February 23 starting at 9 AM. GopherRail ( http://www.gopherrail.org ) is coming, and it's bigger and better than ever. GopherRail 2007 will

A.T. I am aware of at least one drawing that made it out. Dimensionally it is about five feet wide and eight feet long and it was sent to a man in Dallas, now deceased, sometime in the mid

Speaking of Santa Fe and tank cars, I enjoyed watching an old movie from Netflix last week -- Boom Town with Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Claudette Colbert... there are several scenes that show

Tony - I think some of the material at Hardy Street got saved, one way or another. In the early 1960's, "efficiency experts" from San Francisco (this is what the guys at Hardy Street called them,

A.T. Kott wrote: Could WELL be a Texas thing (there are others <g>). IJf only some of Hardy Street had been preserved . . . you will like Tim McLennan's forthcoming book on the T&NO, which has

A minor quibble, but for the record it was the earlier Tk-C through Tk-F class tank cars that were originally built with wood underframes and later had steel underframes applied to the original

Guys - Just a couple things... You have to add model paint thickness to the rivet size on your models. In other words, the thickness of the paint film adds to the diameter of the rivets on the car

Tony Thompson replied: It is indeed "Huck Bolt" or "Huck Fastener". In addition to replacing rivets, these were used to replace bolts on track. Fast to apply, they never need tightening, and are

My point is No mater where you get your so called standard color chip you can not match it. Let say you want to mix "River Bottom Blue" Get your chip from where ever you want. It calls for a gallon

Tony - A toad by any other name is still a toad!! A.T. Kott, P.E. repaired

A.T. Kott wrote: I think this product is the "Huck" bolt. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705