Brian, Perhaps Bill Schneider will chime in on this question. I recall assisting Bill by sending to him a variety of photos plus some other references to photos in various books and magazines. Bill

Way back in 2007 Pierre Oliver said: I did a search on the MR Train Index site and came up with 65 hits for Stafford. I need some help narrowing down the back issue(s) I need to find. Was this the

While at a show today I took the opportunity to look over the True Line Trains Canadian Built boxcars. I recall looking at them when they first came out and the ladders were molded very far from the

Thanks Tony: I don't think Branchline is wrong with any of the placements. I'm more curios to find out if either of the cars I have 137006, and 136502 are one-off experimental locations? Brian J

Brian Carlson wrote: Hopefully a Soo expert will reply, but I recollect reading an article about the Soo box cars awhile back, which stated that the location of the large SOO lettering did vary

While working on my 2 SOO cars, I noticed that Branchline located the SOO LINE Lettering in different locations on different cars. How many different locations was the large SOO LINE lettering applied

np328 wrote: Staying in the steam era (well, for RRs that were not early implementers, like the Southern Railway), the story is told in "Brosnan, The Railroads' Messiah" that Bill Brosnan, during the

Frank, Eagle Merchandise Service (XME) box cars were for less-than-carload freight service. They were often found on house tracks at a local depot to be loaded or unloaded, such as the color photo

In a message dated 2/21/2009 8:54:03 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, brian@... writes: Was this the article in the August 1993, February 1994, or July 1988, of RMC? He also hade multiple

Ed -   Did these cars run in passenger trains or second class freight? Would they usually be found on the house track of the local depot or at the MP freight house? Did they run singly or would you

Lately I've been building resin kits like a mad man. I've come to the conclusion that a skit in a Red Green episode was absolutely correct. They were giving advice to a fella that was trying to

STMFC, Please pardon the bandwidth. Over time I've received numerous inquiries about obtaining out of print volumes of RP CYC. I just learned that a hobby shop has 2 copies each of Volumes 5, 6, and

Eric, I'm in the process of taking photos, albeit slowly, of the models listed in the article. As I get them done I wil;l forward them to you. That was my original intention, but have been side

Eric I don't have any N scale kits or cars. Charlie Slater To: SANTAFE@...; STMFC@... From: ehiser@... Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:04:41 -0700 Subject: [STMFC] Photos

Has anyone on list ever done math to determine the minimum Kadee coupler box width needed to adhere to 18" radius curves yet allow use of Kadee couplers?  I know there are a series of variables, but

Hi Walt, Thanks for your suggestion. One of the comments made on my early clinics several years back was; "This would have been a great kitbash thirty-five years ago..." The critics were correct

I have received a nice article from Rich Dietrichson listing late steam/early diesel N Scale kits that are suitable for the Santa Fe. Unfortunately, I do not have photos of any of the models

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Thanks. I think I have it now. Jim Hayes Portland Oregon Ed Hawkins wrote:

Jim, The gray band extends completely across the car including the door. The end is the same gray as used on the sides. Some of these cars received blue ends. The yellow (also referred to as cream)