My concern with foobies, is that a market awash with them may preclude someone from doing the correct car. Brian J. Carlson, P.E. Cheektowaga, NY From: STMFC@...

LOL!!!!!!!!!! Mike Fleming Superintendent, Bluff City Div. SER, NMRA President Emeritus, Memphis Society of Model Railroaders Vice President, Memphis Railroad and Trolley Museum Model Railroad Club,

A page from the Mike Brock Manual of Prototype Fidelity: "The ability of model railroaders to distinguish perfect models from foobie models is inversely proportional to the speed of the train

Since my wife got sick 5 years ago I have little time for modeling. My first choice is for a model to be dead on exact or extremely close. So it takes me little time to tweak it. A good example is the

Absolutely. Frankly the way I see it is that if the foobies sell and allow "us" to get more prototypically accurate models made (because it's easier to amortize the tooling cost when you're selling

Will Dick Dermody contact me OFF LIST at; atsfcondr42@... Thank you Charlie Slater

Even though we tend to be literalists about prototype models, I can see how people who want to model prototype -operations- would be happy to have an accurate paint scheme for their era on a model

Hi, Tony & others interested in the old Redball cars, I wrote a memo a while back, but sent yesterday, talking particularly about the Elwoods Root Beer car of Redball's. When I reviewed Tony's

Will Andy Cich contact me OFF LISTat atsfcondr42@... Thank You Charlie Slater

McMaster-Carr carries them in stainless, brass, and plastic in a variety of lengths: http://www.mcmaster.com/#machine-screw-fasteners/=c9egzc And if you want different sizes, (down to 0-80) they have

Instead of round head, try binder head. http://findnsave.miamiherald.com/Product/6786475 I found a bin of these at a long-defunct electronics parts house in Nashville and bought 3 pounds for $3. Any

Dear Jim et al, Thanks for your message about fasteners I use to secure coupler boxes to car underbodies. I use a series of Japanese metric miniature machine screws. The original requirement to

Hey Bill, That is a very nice-looking model. Pennsy only had one of those, correct? Still, it would make a nice article for TKM. I'm off to follow the other SPFs! Jim Quoting Bill Lane

All, While my local SPF brethren are literally driving west to go to the PRR convention I pulled a finished car out of the shops. Please give it a look.

Regarding the ARR version, I may have a shot of one here in Seattle. Back in circa 2000, a 40' foot gondola showed up at Bloch Steel (directly adjacent to UP's Argo yard) for cuttin' up into scrap.

It's been mentioned that the Accurail gon list is not a witch hunt, but to get an understanding for which are correct or acceptable lettering schemes. Don't we miss Richard's and Ed's articles in the

Tony Thompson replied: Tony, I believe you are correct. I am looking at a copy of a Red Ball catalog no. 5 (I can't find a date) issued by M. Dale Newton Co. and much of the line manufactured

...and the UP G-50-7 is a GS gon (having drop doors)! It's more like the UP G-50-9, except that the G-50-9 is a 50' car with fewer panels (and no doubt other discrepancies). Bogus, indeed. But hey,

Schuyler Larrabee writes: Damn. I was hoping someone else would have responded by now. Oh well...according to the Accurail website, the UP Accurail car is a G-50-7...car numbers 63058, 63427, and

Paul, There are two ACF builder's photos on the fallen flags web site. http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/gmo/gmo13534asw.jpg (2nd group) http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/gmo/gmo13909asw.jpg (3rd group) By