The Sunshine list appears to have disappeared from the Files. Is there any particular reason for this, or Yahoo being Yahoo. Barry Bennett

Bob, I like the Polyscale Acrylics so I paint my Q stuff "Special Oxide Red". I like the hue to have a warm red cast to it like I see in Mike Spoors CB&Q color book. The Q called thier color Mineral

I looked at that RMC article for years. the kitbash described used two Eastern Car Works Airslide flat kits. I finally built it, but only because Eastern Car Works came out with a kit. The kit has

On May 3, 2009, at 2:41 PM, Dick Harley wrote: <SNIP> > Dan Smith has done some tabulation work > with the R-40-10 copies we have. While Apex is used on about 50% of > the cars, the others are

On Sat May 2, 2009 Tim O'Connor wrote me and the STMFC list about specialties for early PFE steel ice reefers. Tim reposted info I had created from drawing 283-C-8962 on the R-40-23 class. Tony

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the STMFC group. File : /PFE Info from CSRM/R-40-10 Specialties.pdf

Al - Looked at my file on these cars last night - see my previous post on the STMFC list dated Feb. 17, 2005 (post #38786) for more post-STMFC info about these cars. There are a couple of errors in

Ray, Thanks so much!  I'm not an HO person . . . . fat thumbs it seems.  O-scale gives me a fighting chance.  Researching the real ones is fun also.  Any clues on the builders would help. Al

Now I'm not a Q modeler but in PR CYC vol.3 there is an article on vintage box car painting by Pat Wider. On page 37 there is a Floquil "formula" for the CB&Q utilizing one part #88 and three parts

Tim, I think we are cutting things aweful close here. I have used the "narrowest" Archer weld seam on some SP? B-50-15 plate doors and they look fine. Much the same as a 10 thou grab iron is still to

Thanks. It sounds like the Archer weld seams are far too large for HO freight cars, since they are much less than 1" thick steel. Tim O'Connor

Steve Stull wrote: This is certainly true for material thicknesses like car bodies, but for thicker sections it's usually a J-groove, and the weld bead width on the joined surface can be

--- On Sat, 5/2/09, Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> wrote: From: Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> Subject: [STMFC] Re: Archer decals To: STMFC@..., MFCL@... Date:

Ray - It was not very difficult to make the 70-ton gondolas out of brass in "O" scale. I made three of them back in the early 1970's. When I discovered that the cars did not roam free about the

Mike, and group, One thing I've seen mentioned in Tony Thompson's series of books on SP Freight Cars is that right about 1960 the individual, hand-updated car cards were replace by computers, and

Hi Steve, Actually, Frank Hodina found that the C&IM used to lease NYC and IC twin hoppers to handle coal rushes. Companies used to stockpile coal before the winter, so there were coal rushes in

Hi Al! FAR too big. The C&IM cars were "bathtub" gons; the VGN cars were true "battleships". You're not too far off track here Al. As you might know, Frank Hodina is modeling a freelanced version

Those are ones of totally uniform appearance. There are some machine made welds that look like that. I prefer the other type that is more "noisy". KL

Steve, Thanks for your in-depth response. I would guess the 109-ton or rebuilt 105-ton Virginian 6-wheel trucked gons might be a little "big" for representing 70-ton, 4-wheel trucked cars.  I

Al, According to the Chicago & Illinois Midland book by Wallin, Stringham, and Szwajkart, the C&IM had three rail-to-barge facilities in Havana. Dock A was pretty simple. Coal hoppers would be