I would just like to echo Tony's sentiments here on the meet. I had a great time and enjoyed all the clincs I attended. Here's hoping that Joe can maintain the momentum. Pierre Oliver

I have apparently lost my friend Jim Singer's contact info. If someone can help me out, please contact offline. Thank you! Bill Welch 2225 Nursery Road; #20-104 Clearwater, FL

Andy, Folks, We've been over this before <G>. There are some magnet types that will allow this 100% of the time. IIRC, the last time this came up was when HiTech introduced their rubber air

The hoses would attract each other about 50% of the time--the other 50% they would repel. -Andy Carlson ________________________________ To: STMFC@... Sent: Mon, October 25, 2010

Guess that's what the O scalers are using. Ran on Ted Schnepf's O scale layout Sunday morning. Quite a layout! Was a lot of fun. Learn right away you are really an engineer when trying to control

Hello All, I am trying to determine what paint and lettering scheme(s) the former USQX 10,000 gallon ACF Type 27 cars (like the Intermountain kit) wore circa 1952-53 after aquiring USAX reporting

Clark, Do you think tiny magnets would work? Kind regards, Garth Groff

I'll chirp in on this one. Thought it was one of the best N'villes ever! Having evolved passed proto freight car building to proto layout building and operation I saw great clinics by proto-layout

Anyone go to the Rosemont hobby show afterwards? I was wondering if there were many model RR vendors there. Back in the old days at Naperville we used to go to the show on Sunday when the MRIA was

Hopefully we might attend next year. Glad to hear the good news. Mark Morgan Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®

Tony It was nice seeing you and others there as well. I thought, as well as others I talked to, that the attendance was down significantly from last year. The vendors will pretty much all agree

I thought this year's Naperville meet was quite good, very much in the tradition of the previous ones conducted by Sunshine (and yes, Sunshine was there selling kits to the usual enthusiastic

Chet, Yes, you are correct. I am not sure how I missed the other note, but the other 17 cars are under Note AAA1 in the April 1959 ORER that states they have a different AAR mechanical designation

Bob, The July 1958 ORER shows the same 33 cars having racks for Ford passenger frames (Note DD) and Note HH lists the other 17 cars having Mercury frame racks. Check the 1959 Register to see if the

I feel your pain, John, but I also infer that this was a new medium for you? An hour spent experimenting with the stuff on scrap styrene and a few junk car or locomotive shells would have been a wise

Steve Lucas asked: "I'm building a few P-Company cars and would like suggestions as to the best model paint match for them." It depends on when you're modeling. For cars painted before 1945, I

Steve, Paint - era? (pre WWI, post WWII...?), cars? Trucks - no "crown" trucks on GLa hoppers... after all, that's a 70 ton truck and a 50 ton hopper <G>. As built, the cars rode on arch

I'm building a few P-Company cars and would like suggestions as to the best model paint match for them. Also, would GLa hoppers have been fitted with Crown trucks? And did TKM ever carry an article

From a very old post for which I did some more research ... ChetFrench wrote: stenciled above the reporting marks and the cars with Mercury frame racks were stenciled"54". > Tim O'Connor

John, I use Polyscale for both brush painting and airbrushing. for the brush painting I use high quality artist brushes from Langneckl, Windsor Newton, Grumbacher and others found at real art stores.