Thanks, Dave! Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN

Is there any chance it can be recorded, so others can see it later? That is a challenging day for me, and I would not want to take a slot away from someone to attend a little of it. Don Burn

This is what I have done: Cut 0.005" styrene sheet into strips scale 3" wide. This is the base that is glued (carefully too much will distort this thin styrene) and let it cure over night. Next

or check epay or railtoadtreasures.com :-) mel perry

Now that I am getting caught up on my list o'stuff to do around the house--we will not discuss what is on the wife's list--I am beginning to layout the sides of an MKT single sheathed caboose. You

Just to be clear, to attend, you must go to the link below and go through the checkout. It's free, but there are a limited number of slots on the video stream and this is the only way we can meter the

Not at all. RCW has no plans at this time to produce Southern Railway pulpwood cars. A new model will be announced soon, but it's not a Southern prototype or a flat car.

Does anyone have any photos of the above cars? I’ve exhausted my resources and I’m coming up empty. Thanks. Brian J. Carlson

wrlyders via groups.io wrote: There's an article with prototype photos and a scale drawing in Railroad Model Craftsman, July 1955, p.48. Not in my collection, but perhaps someone here can help.

While regrind can contribute to degredation, I believe the problems D.A. had with their gondolas is most likely due to their purchasing poorer quality styrene. Styrene is like lacquer thinner--its

Tony Thompson wrote; This results from excessive recycling of scrap styrene moldings DA did use regrind plastic when they did kits and parts. The brittleness runs across their parts line. The

Here is a Higher Res Version of the Flyer. Ryan

With most RPM meets cancelled for the foreseeable future some enterprising fellas have come up with short freight car clinic on-line. Sorry if this is a double posting, CW Propst

Chad Boas did a good job on those ends, I just haven't figured out how to make the empty car track worthy. I may have to make the body out of sheet brass. I have built one MTY as I said but haven't

My understanding is that the SRHA bought the rights and molds for the Wright Track kits that were Southern Railway prototypes. I saw on the SRHA affiliated email list that they plan to have the resin

Bill Welch wrote: This results from excessive recycling of scrap styrene moldings. Dennis can tell us much more about this if he wishes. My own approach might be to try and fill and smooth the

I have dozens of photos of SP GS gondolas - not one of them is patched. I would try to overlay the entire panel to hide the crack, or perhaps use Future or another clear acrylic

Mather Box, Stock and Reefers. The following list are the magazine articles I have for Mather Cars. Mainline Modeler Nov 86 John Nehrich Model Railroading Nov 87 part 1 Richard

Bill The SP gons didn’t have the same problems as they were made of steel not plastic 😁😁😁 the DA kits are noted for there brittle plastic I have built several some of them have been really

Allen, To model the SU box cars converted has always been an interest/goal of mine but as I dug into that the "ends" were always a stumble. Many of those used the Hutchins end. I went so far as to