Hi guys - I just wanted to let you know, for those of you who are interested, that I have started a new Yahoo Group dedicated to steam and early diesel era weathering subjects at

few years and want to get back to doing just modeling.< Here is the problem, at least as I see it. A few years is just too long to change things. DCC can change without a membership vote, as I

wrote: Richard, You are correct. NMRA S&RPs are up to 50 years old and need to be revised. My problem is finding people who are knowledgable, willing and able to do the revisions. Our volunteers do

in the Dennis, Your recommendation to change the NMRA RP-23 to include a boss on the bolster seems like a good idea to me. I am willing to carry your suggestion forward. I sent you offlist the Word

Taylor Yard was SP's primary yard in Los Angeles. Colton had the neaby Mount Slover where limestone was (is?) mined. I looked in the archives, but could not find the link to the photo showing the

Notice that laying down toward the camera is another handle exactly like the one on which he's resting his hand, and the silhouette of the keeper for it is in line and away from the camera. My guess

to provide There _are_ two levers in the photo, both with grips. He has his hand on one, the other is flat on the ground outboard of the first, rotated to its full clockwise position, with the handle

This guy might just be old and unable to stand all day long. I enlarged and lightened the photo. It looks like the "lever splits toward the bottom and is controlling two rods / mechanisms.

Not to beat a dead horse, but I don't believe the guy is holding on to a "big handle to throw the switch", but is resting his hand on a control box for the double-slip. He would need two levers (one

Please let us know when it is ready. Cyril Durrenberger

Gee, Don, are you just noticing that the NMRA is fifty years behind in updating their standards and recommended practices, and that many of the ones they established way back in the last century

I am most apologetic for my last post, for it truly was not intended to go out to the list. Again, I am sorry.... -Andy

Brian, if it is not too late, I would like to increase the numbers of 207. how about a TOTAL of 12 dozen (144 pairs with semiscale wheels). sorry to be such a pain in the

Weelllllll,I just couldn't resist.Model makers?...............With the flood of ready to run cars what's the issue?Are there that many of us model makers left to have to worry about screws? <G>,Armand

Doc, I fail to see why truck makers need to be responsible for other manufacturers' poorly designed body bolsters. The de facto standard in the hobby for the last forty years has been a clearance

Have some Christmas money to spend so I am looking for an HO scale Overland X23 box car with the corrugated door and also a USRA SS box car by Overland. Contact me off-list if you have either you

Hi Denny, Gather you are back in your "normal" habitat as I see "Sacramento" at the end of your post rather than "Iowa". But with regard to truck screws, and without wishing to open a new thread

Funny you should ask, Jon, since I'm hard at work on it even as I read your e-mail. I'm fairly confident that it will be published in time for the society's 2009 national meeting. It covers flat

Some day I will learn to change the subject. Richard H. When is the ATSF flatcar book due???????????????? The society pages say '08 but I know that's not true <G>! Jon Miller AT&SF For me time

Richard H. When is the ATSF flatcar book due???????????????? The society pages say '08 but I know that's not true <G>! Jon Miller AT&SF For me time has stopped in 1941 Digitrax, Chief/Zephyr