Really enjoyed that Jack. Was useful to hear how you work through the model design and parts creation process. Rob Kirkham

definitely a gondola mel perry

Photo: DL&W 70793 Nice shot of this car. Is it a flat car or a gondola? http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-12-26-19/X6139.jpg Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA

wow, nice picture! -- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts

Another video as part of the series I have been doing has been uploaded to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQOr0CRinzM This one is on M of W cars that I have been building. Jack

Tony makes an excellent point! - but it reminds me of the Guy Dunscomb collection of fabulous Southern Pacific photographs that was bequeathed to the Huntington Collection,

Magazines are not photos. I have issues of MRH (a FREE online publication with photos) that are 300 Megabytes each in size, and they are PDF files. Kalmbach could

That shot has some grand detail of a concrete cribbing! — ^<@<.@* hat less at less point at star }"_# | back brace double base pound space bar -@$&/_% dash at cash and slash base

I have no idea why he said that. The car in the pics is pretty much a standard AC&F Type 4. David Thompson

Nice panoramic shot... notice the T&NO boxcar at the left end, and, no, it’s not that long, but an artifact of the panoramic camera that shot the image. Bill Daniels Santa Rosa, California

From the Erie-Lackawanna list today: http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-12-28-19/X6844.jpg Brian Rochon

Good Friends, While working through scanning Sacramento Northern negatives shot by the late Kenneth Jenkins, I came to the tank car below. This car is something of a puzzle, particularly its original

Westerfield has released a number of new kits for Southern Pacific single-sheathed B50-15 boxcars. They have a number of unusual paint schemes, but I suspect from the descriptions that they did were

Satin - semi gloss. Matte - flat Craig Zeni Cary NC

Cross posted from the Canadian Modeling List (with permission from the posting individual) CP 40 foot Double Door with end door boxcar preliminary announcement, Sylvan kit HO-1073 I will be getting a

I’m satisfied with the retainer valves on the Tichy K brake system parts sprue. I drill a hole and insert a length of 0.008-inch diameter wire before snipping them off the sprue. The brake parts all

I bought a set of 20 but haven't done anything with them. The back side is clean but the front side has the "frosty" look you get with this process. I expect that will clear up when they are

Tony, both are happening, often in step. For instance,they (we) might have given up on some, but they are not processingothers. There is the main issue - one has to rationalize the costsvs. the

Hi Jon, Peter, et al., Tichy offers any array of wire diameters from 0.008” to 0.032” in 8” and 3’ lengths, as well as 0.040” wire but apparently only in 8” lengths. The wire is

Bob Webber wrote: Comments about abuse of licensing and permission are quite correct. But I think Bob is wrong about what institutions "are going to do." In fact, my impression is that many