Thank You, Bob!Mark Morgan

WE sure hope to. DB

You bringin' any SP cabooses? :-)

On a prefab underframe found in most plastic kits (where the crossbearers are part of the casting) if I really want to run an airline I just flip it over and cut U-shape chunks out of the crossbearers

I have posted a copy of that photo, which I "ripped" from the internet, in the Photos Section in a folder titled "USRA". I recall, I posted it the last time we had this discussion in the STMFPH·

Well guys, we are just a couple of weeks away from the Naperville Show. WrightTRAK will be attending for the 3rd year. Please visit our website at www.wrighttrak.com and if there is anything that

Have any idea on what end that car had, Tim. Mark Morgan 

Ed, I got my Atlas 1932 Box Cars from Al D'Elia at Eastern Classic RR for $22 just a month or so ago. I believe the MSRP is $32.95 on these? IF so, the discount is 33%. His email is:

Mr. Hawkins: I've just returned from purchasing a postal money order in the amount of $41.37 in US$'s for Volume 19. The additional $11.58 are for two previous orders that did not include enough

SLSF 85954 was still in revenue service in 1958 - I have a shot of the car loaded with pipe. One plank had been removed to make an open slot below the top of the side. Tim O'Connor

Take a look at www.modelexpo-online.com/product.asp?ITEMNO=KTD04C. Model Expo is offering a set of 1-7/8-inch-long number drill bits in even-numbered sizes from 52-74. I haven't purchased these

From Athearn (via trainorders.com) this morning: BEGIN QUOTE Greetings, Effective immediately, we here at Athearn have made the difficult decision to discontinue the production of our Blue Box line

Brian, Based on the photos above, I'd say your new truck looks like a great option for my Rr-5-9, -11 SFRD reefers...perhaps some of my ATSF stock cars and tanks too. Thanks very much for doing this

Chuck, No right angle drills needed. Just long drill bits ( 4 1/2 inches long ) made out of .020" music ( piano ) wire or larger. The music wire is sharpened via grinding at one end creating a

John, In vol.1 on gondolas, see page 97 bottom. Its the right hand truck under the G-50-10. The truck on the left has the same sideframe but an older bolster. The prototypes I'm working from were

As far as I know F&C always offers 2 for 1 at show and by mail throught their flyer. regards, Andy Miller (who will be running F&C PRR MP54s at the North Shore Model RR Club Open house this week

Bill Welch notes: Dodgers? Good grief. No, no, this does not mean that baseball is an approved subject for the STMFC. The only real problem you and perhaps John Stokes and Joel Norman might

Thank You for all of the replies: Bill, Richard, John and Jim. Sincerely, Mark Morgan

You're right , John, I'd forgotten that both ACL and Frisco still had significant numbers of original USRA gons in '53. Though I would add that those cars were rapidly being retired by that time

Wow, You and Mike really threw away the keys on those messages, must have been looking for N&W hoppers on Sherman Hill. Brian J. Carlson, P.E. Cheektowaga NY Brian, This is the reason why you