Good write up.  Any pictures of the event?   Jason Sanford

Prototype Rails 2009, in Cocoa Beach, FL, was a good meeting. I am the Clinic Chairman, and here are my biased comments. As usual, it was a lot of work and a lot of fun. Attendance was pretty good;

My wife is a transit planner, and 15 years ago she worked on the Milwaukee light rail system (never built - but when she transferred to that project is when we met, so I guess every dark cloud has a

Mark My apologies. I edited my original reply and put things back to front. I should have said "With the exception of 18700-19399 (which were built with truck type 81)". 18400-699 were built with

Hi Rupert, Thanks for the information. What sort of trucks are the type 81? I've got a fairly clear shot of CBQ 18471, and it has trucks that look very much like an ASF A-3 ride control. Does the

different I picked up a boxed set of 20 of the Trix 40' UP boxcars when "the price was right". There are four different basic schemes including the early white and yellow "Road of the

Mark To broaden your target for photos, other cars in class XM-32C were 18700-19399 (built 1951), C&S 1250-1499 (built 1950-1) and FW&D 9001-9250 (built 1951). With the exception 18400-699 (which

Mark A photo of CB&Q 18675 shows AJAX handbrake and APEX (grid style) running board and brake step. Bracket-style grab irons. Also, no poling pockets. The trucks are in shadow and can't be

Hello everyone, I'm gathering information on some Burlington boxcars, series CBQ 18400- 18699 (class XM-32c), for a possible future project, and I have a few questions about these cars. Could anyone

Thanks Tom, I couldn't manage Cocoa this year either - maybe next. In any event, those temperatures don't seem to hard to manage. But I take your point - I'll wait for the RMC article to be

Are these O-scale or H0? Al Kresse

Dave, Couldn't find it. Can you please give me  link? Regards, Arnold van Heyst Netherlands. http://www.flickr.com/photos/heyst/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Rob Kirkham asked: It was only warm - maybe 80 to 85 F. Ted's article is supposed to be in the February RMC which should be showing up any day. I didn't do Cocoa Beach this year so can't ask Ted if he

Tom, that's interesting as I have some of these cars to work on too. I wonder about what temperature your ultrasonic cleaner raises the temperature of the cleaning fluid to? I don't have one, but

Dave, A "few" UP box cars wouldn't be prototypical since UP had only one car of this type, number 182500, B-50-18, built 5-36. Builder's photos appear on pages 77-78 in Terry Metcalfe's book Union

Just received the Atlas e-mail update. The January 2009 announcements include 6 new paint schemes and 3 "body styles" to include Murphy, Viking, and "11 panel flat riveted roofs", each with different

In late October I posted this: To follow this up, Ted Culotta's next Essential Freight Cars article is supposed to cover upgrading this model. He's been offering the Trix/Marklin model through his

My recent announcement re: upcoming S scale resin kits (B&O M53 wagontop box and SAL B7 turtleback box) has now spread into HO, at least for the B&O car. I'm pleased to announce a collaboration

I have an old Varney tank car lettered GATX 648, Carbide and Carbon Chemicals. The car has a green body with white lettering. Accepting the era the model was made, likely the late 50s, a lot of

This is a question for those Heinz experts among us.? According to a?1951 AFE that year the Colorado & Southern installed a 260-foot spur in Windsor, Colorado to serve the H.J. Heinz Company.? My