Armand, You might check eBay for time to time. Rule books from various times and railroads are offered quite regularly. Hopefully your favorite road's rule book could be found dated near your time

For what this is worth, in talking with Steve Funaro in Anaheim last Sunday, he said that he is converting everything to one piece body castings, and updating many kits. I have a couple VGN Battleship

Just a pity all the photos of the cars show modernised versions with Ajax brake wheels. Jon

You know, at first glance they don't look too bad. Really. In particular, the Central of Georgia car looks very nice--I think the car color is dead-on. John Golden Bloomington, IN

This Saturday in Kansas an estate auction will feature a real Missouri Pacific rebuilt steel boxcar, complete and in MP paint. Scroll down to the bottom to see the MP boxcar, and also an MP wooden

Sweet!! Jon

Dennis Storzek wrote: Hmm. I didn't say anything to contradict the statement that "most railroad rulebooks were modeled on the Standard Code of Operating Rules," so am not sure of the

Irregardless of what Tony says, most railroad rulebooks were modeled on the Standard Code of Operating Rules throughout the period covered by this list, and so where pretty much the same from road to

Armand Premo wrote: Before the days when most if not all railroads adopted the "Uniform Code of Rules," these matters were spelled out in each railroad's own rule book. So I would answer that in

ed_mines wrote: I may be remembering this wrong, but shouldn't this read "done FOR West Shore," etc.? The sellers of the kits may have been pickier than Steve was at that stage as to acceptable

While this may be marginally within scope of this list,what was the rule for displaying markers and who determined the colors of the lenses of marker lights?Was there a standard?Armand Premo

Atlas has posted photos of the decorated models on their web site: http://www.atlasrr.com/HOFreight/ho1932boxcar.htm# Marty McGuirk

Denny, Consider making some "bushings" with the proper o.d. rather than drilling out the bolsters.  This is a quick and dirty method to resolve the disparity between the screw o.d. and the truck

I am responding to an older post (16 June) that addresses a common problem: the commonly-wide truck bolster holes that are designed to fit over the shouldered body bolsters common to to almost all

All, disregard my last. It should have gone directly to Elden. Apologies for the wasted bandwidth. Ben Hom

Do you need any more prototype photo coverage for the article? I can check to see what I've got and get the scans doen this week. Ben <elden.j.gatwood@...> wrote: Behalf Of hard

Armand, If you are inquiring about the Rutland, I asked that question at this years convention. Someone, I think Phil Jordan, had a rules book, and IIRC, the Rutland used yellow, yellow

Ed; The F&C X26C is a better kit than the Sunshine X26C. Sure, we all love Sunshine kits, but some of them have problems, too. I just finished the Sunshine, and am finishing my F&C X26C. The

Maybe I'm just not following this... but what difference does the source/age of the masters make? F&C's current prices should be almost entirely related to their variable costs, i.e. labor and

Walt; I just mentioned this, but I am in process on one, and also completed an article on the X26C (prototype) and Sunshine kit for the upcoming TKM (will do a follow-up on this kit), but yes, it