Actually, regardless of what coupler you use, your track should be as smooth as possible.  I am using  #5, 58 and 78, and recently decided to standardize on the Kadee "scale" whisker coupler and IM

They will have trouble on longer cars or engines over abrupt track changes. Happens very rarely and still prefer the scale couplers. Mark Morgan

Clark I think all common carrier rates other than tank cars were based on weight (and commodity, and other factors -- like loose, boxed, crated, in barrels, refrigerated, etc) Tank car loads were

Pssst. MWSnap. Free download. It's Awesomeware. :-) Tim O'Connor

There are now many brands of Kadee-style couplers out there, including some "scale" (P:HO) sizes. I have found that it's more important than ever to have all couplers at the height prescribed by the

I'm going to assume he is referring to 58's and 78's or the scale whisker couplers (number forgotten) They are smaller, (duh) so they are less tolerate of dips and humps in the track. but they operate

I have been using Kadee scale couplers on all of my rolling stock.  Currently, I do not have a layout. I have a friend (who is a very good modeler) who claims that he is having difficulty with

George, Thank you. Ken Montero

Looks like these weigh tickets answered some queations! CGW weigh tickets from Marshalltown Iowa 1-4-68 CGW 1155 (Gondola) Scrap Iron, Tare 52500-Net 139860, From M Gervich & Sons Inc. To Chicago

Not Tim, but it is another yahoo group BBFCL. Just go to the yahoo group page and search. The title comes from Baby Boomer Freight Car List. Link is as

There was a thread some years ago about "standard weight" carloads (for lack of the correct term),. Like grain loads? For modeling purposes. I weigh all loads that come out of my packinghouse. In

Tim, What's BGFCL? Do you have a website address for it? Ken Montero

How about just using Adobe Acrobat? It takes care of all those needs. Jerry Michels

The June 2007 issue of RMJ has an article on early ART steel reefers. Is Yes. Article by Richard Hendrickson. and a few of the 33000 series assembled cars are still available through the

Photoshop will open a PDF and allow for editing but only page by page not the whole document. Jerry Glow

Ray Breyer wrote: You can accomplish the same in Photoshop Elements (I have version 6): Open the PDF in PS. Select Images on the menu. Click on the images you want to save (Control-Click for multiple

John, Tony Thompson will doubtless have more to say on this, but I have a photo from the Arnold Menke collection of R-40-14 PFE 45000 at Bayshore, CA in 12/45 which appears to be in weathered

Hello All, Am I correct in assuming the non-aluminum PFE R-40-14 reefers wore the UP Overland herald when new? What I have found, is that the R-40-14's were built in 1941 and the Overland herald was

Hi Patrick, It helps if you have a full license Adobe Acrobat creator. You can then extract individual pages or groups of pages, and save them as Jpegs (and convert those to bitmaps). You can also

Ray Breyer wrote: Right now I'm having too much fun disassembling these things and turning the car diagrams into bitmaps! So how do you do that. I cannot figure out how to select a diagram.