Instruction videos are great, but Al does not make one for each kit produced. He did one which is a general instruction for all kits. Quit complaining and go build those kits that are piling

Speaking of which, I'm almost done building a Westerfield kit: not my first of his, but my first since Al put up his on-line catalogue. I can't say enough for the in-progress photographs. With a

Now you know why Al does not produce anywhere the number of different kits that Martin does. If you want 2 or 3 kits a year we could spend a lot of OUR TIME writing instructions. Charlie Slater To:

Charlie Slater, Patternmaker, wrote: Nice one, Charlie. Guess no one can ever learn anything from instructions, but needs to know it up front. Might be useful to remember that not everyone knows

Charlie Slater wrote: "If detailed instructions are needed for these kits, these kits are too difficult for you to build." Guess Al Westerfield wasted his time doing those instructions

If detailed instructions are needed for these kits, these kits are too difficult for you to build. The construction of these kits has not changed over the years. You can take the instructions from a

PHIL MARCUS wrote: Phil, there were numerous experimental and prototype cars like this. I was speaking of larger scale commercial production. Probably the biggest contributor was Milwaukee Road

I thought at least one of the F30 subclasses was welded, not cast. Not so? Tim O'

The KCS built their own all welded hopper gondolas in 1932. They mounted them on the then new National B trucks. Innovative for a railroad. Phil Marcus Anthony Thompson <thompson@...>

Tom Daspit has a website the first US car was the WECX 200 August 6th 1957. A link to that page is below. http://southern.railfan.net/schnabel/cars/ptdx200/wecx200_1.html Robert Federle

Tim Barney wrote: As Bruce Smith observed, this comment about welding is way wrong. The first extensively welded freight cars were covered hoppers in the mid-1930s. Because of all the welding

Sunshine make a model of one style cars...Mt Vernon blt? Maybe Mr.Hayes has the flyer up on his website? Clark Propst

The C&O built 5 alum hops and 10 alum box cars in 1948 Al Kresse

On Aug 6, 2008, at 7:20 AM, tbarney2004 wrote: Sorry to nitpick but the 250Fxx tender classes generally had 3 axle trucks (with one exception that I know of). IIRC, the trucks on the FD2/FW1 were

WECX 200 was the first US Schnabel car. It was built in June 1957 for the Westinghouse Transformer Div. by Greenville Steel Car Co. It was built because power transformers grew too large for

John Thompson wrote: "The Berliner website includes the following reference, but it's not clear to me whether it's a Schnabel car or a heavy-duty flat car: -------------- Photo (and blowup detail)

The PRR FD2 "Queen Mary" flat car was an all welded, 250T capacity depressed-center heavy duty flat. Utilized 4, 4 axle trucks with span bolsters. Trucks were salvaged from scrapped 8 axle "long

I cobbled it up the best I could when building mine: http://home.comcast.net/~jerryglow/modeling/StLBM_gon.html Jerry Glow extension kit to his early MoP kits is shown on Page 219 (Figure 225) of

Malcolm Laughlin sent: NEED SOME MODELING DATA:1950-1956 NORTHEAST USA(PENNA-NY) Coal for the steel mills of Buffalo out of coal county(WvA/Va/ Ohio/Ky)would have moved in whose coal cars other then

Jim, Your list is wonderful. I use it often. Is there any way I could help you get scans done? I have a complete suite of scanners and the software to get them ready to post. If I can help,