Elden wrote: Abrasive blasting doesn't work well on resilient materials. I'm not a metallurgist and am probably using the wrong words to describe properties, but take solder on brass. Solder is softer

Ed,      I might be confused here.  I have a couple of the Ambroid cylindrical hoppers and they definely are in regular Ambroid boxes.  I think I know the tank car you are talking about and I

Hello Group, This same photo is reproduced on page 100 of the recently released SANTA FE OPEN-TOP CARS: FLAT, GONDOLA, AND HOPPER CARS 1902-1959, by Richard Hendrickson. The Lg-2 logging cars were

There was another manufacturer of Ambroid freight car kits - Scalecraft (?). They had kits for a cylindrical NYC covered hopper and a large tank car. Kits had many more soft metal castings than most

This is true, but....in real time, in my own experience, it proves to be an issue have absolutely no bearing on what actually occurs in the context of everyday experience. Much of the engineering

Does anyone know if Martin is planning on releasing a model of the B&M XM-1 with the "Reverse Creco" door? Pierre Oliver

Yes, I should have tried other means to remove that "paint". Unfortunately, it adhered extremely well to certain portions, leaving others bare. Repeated passes with the tool actually bagan to remove

So, if etched/formed HO/O scale, etc., car rooves were made, they could be made to look like galvanised material by grit blasting? If so, this would be a modeller's painting conundrum solved for

I probably would not use it for paint removal on resin but do routinely hit the whole model prior to painting. Ted Culotta's articles almost universally mention doing this regardless of the material

I would also avoid using media blasting using "grit", even the fine stuff, on resin, without watching VERY closely what it is doing to the surface. I tried to remove badly applied acrylic paint from

One more for the shopping list! :-) Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

Tim, I could tell you many reasons why and in buckets full but alas I am working on a number of ATSF flats and need to back to some detailing. This book of  Richard's is a must if one models ATSF

Richard You send me the money, and I'll buy the book, buddy! Why the heck would anyone want a book on Santa Fe flat cars? :-) Tim O'

1,000 cars a day??????????? Dave, if you divide 20,000 by 91.25, you get 219 cars/day. If the usual 60/40 load/empty prevails, that's about 131 loads/day. Doesn't seem like a lot for a trunk line to

Tim, if you did some reading instead of having your eyes glued to a computer screen all the time, you would know that the Santa Fe had several classes of logging flats, all of which are well

Tim O'Connor wrote: Unfortunately I am unable to locate the H.H. Copeland WP traffic reports I have so this'll have to a IIRC, but yeah, on average in the steam era, that is what I'm saying (corrected

Wouldn't be my guess, the angle/channel structure looks like it was all made at the same time.. SGL wrote: E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (7.0.0.508) Database version:

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Interesting side frame. By any chance is that cut down from a War Emergency gondola? Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

And now, for something completely different -- This is a first for me, I've never heard of a Santa Fe log (Lg) flat before. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130342642018 Tim