Clark I switched the rendering plant track at Wilson's packing haouse in Oklahoma City the summer of 1972. If you need tallow cars, you need the model the smell also. Tallow takes old cars on

Mike prodded: Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 5:33 PM To: STMFC@... Subject: Re: [STMFC] Re: AAR Standard twin offset side hopper with oval ends? I understand the points and business

--- In STMFC@..., "Dave Evans" <devans1@...> wrote: Only if you have total control of your costs... and using contract shops, you don't. In that case, the shop drives your decision by the

Bill sed: OK, going to stick my neck in here... 1) Modelers that would appreciate the differences between the “Alternate” and “”Standard” designs also tend to demand high levels of

I'm interested in a GATX tank car that was in packing house service. Would this model work? GATX 23564 22900-23999 TM tallow GATX 24950 24264-25275 TM tallow Clark Propst

as the nearest hobby shops with decent stock are 5 hours away, so I might as well use the paint I like best. Richard, What, no runway out back? Tom Casey

Snip Jeff, A good summary of the options. From what I gathered at Prototype rails, the lower tooling costs of door number 2 would provide total savings over method 1 at 20k units - I think extra

Tony I have a couple of 46-foot GS gondolas. W&R imported them. :-) Tim O'

Tom Madden wrote Hmmmm.. MILW box car disaster, Santa Fe stock car slightly better. (Just my guess.) Tom, everything you wrote makes perfect sense, except that you forgot a major

That happens when you keep sniffing that Canadian air, brrrrrrrrr Chuck Hladik

Sunshine usually only brings the newer stuff but surprised us at Naperville by having several boxes of old kits. Sunshine will be at 3 events in Feb. and March. Timonium, Feb. 5/6. Sunshine hopes to

On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:31:49 -0500, mike brock wrote I remember being berated at the time for not "learning how" to use flex paints and that I needed a tutorial from Konrad. I watched him painting at

For those who have been to the Timonium show before, does Sunshine usually bring a stock of older kits with them or do they only sell new and very recent kits? Thanks, Dan Miller

On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:00:38 -0800, Richard Hendrickson wrote My LHS does not stock Scalecoat, but they will order it for me and it gets there quickly without having to pay shipping. The only problem

Garth Groff wrote: No apology necessary, Garth, whatever the source of the slip. I too wish there was a 46-foot GS gon out there, but am making do with 40-foot ones for D&RGW in the

Tony and friends, Indeed, I did intend to say "gondola". And I reread this post twice for accuracy. I hope you all will forgive me, as I suffer from a mild dyslexia (and I've been a professional

Roofs, running boards, etc are easy. Internal hopper detail is not, ESPECIALLY on a Seeley! ;>) Bill Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 1:34 PM To: STMFC@... Subject: Re: [STMFC] Re: AAR

Garth Groff wrote: Surely you mean GS gondolas, Garth?? Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510)

Yah but,Bill a hopper doesn't need a roof,a running board (roof walk) laterals etc.Just think of the savings..Not that I would opt for an alternate standard I have yet to see a hopper that I didn't

I have a few questions about making new models. Let us assume that the model will be sold RTR (no kits). Let us also assume that the model will be a hopper car (as discussed) with "moderate" sales (I