Testor's Dullcote is the only flat finish in a rattle can I have. Lester Breuer

Testor's Dullcote or ModelMaster Lusterless (flat). Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

"Model Master" flat.

In the old Dos Equis beer commercial the Most InterestingMan in the World declares, "I don't always drink beer, but when I do Idrink Dos Equis". So if you were completing the following

Bill According to the guys web site that just ran that car in HO, they were unable to find any drawings for the car. B&O Baltimore does not have any. The Pierre Marquette society may be a source. I've

I agree Eric, the WLE used the XM-1 arrangement w/the cross ites under the door posts and have modified my underframes to match this arrangement. Bill Welch

Bill, I have reviewed several prototype imagesof these W&LE box cars and I believe the underframes in these steel-sheathedcars follow the arrangement of the XM-1 single-sheathed car underframe.

Does anyone know if drawings for the Baltimore And Ohio N-34 wagon top hopper cars were ever published? This question was prompted yesterday when I came across the drawings for a Santa Fe Ga-55

Answering my own question w/the help of a couple of photos sent to me I can say that the M-26B underframe arrangement is like the X29 if I can go by the location of the large rivets under the doors

Well done Pierre! Bill Welch

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The ACL and SAL Historical Society is pleased to announce the latest edition of the Seaboard-Coast Line Modeler. This is our 28th issue thus far and we are always appreciative of feedback, comments,

Under the door posts meaning under the edge of the door opening On the X29 the cross ties are under the door opening Those rivets we see inline about where the door stops are where the Cross Bearers

I made a comment about this back in the eggs thread. However I used the term "water glass". For the younger group "water glass" was used to simulate water back in the early days

Bill, If I am not sure what you mean by" "under the doors" vs. under the door posts. Photographic evidence based upon the location of rivets on the side sills show that the B&O had its cross ties or

The B&O M-26B class like the WLE's X29 types shared the same rivet and side panel construction as the PRR's X29 types. The WLE (later NKP) cars however had their cross ties under the door posts

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---In STMFC@..., <jack.f.mullen@...> wrote : Not quite. Eggs were dipped in an aqueous solution of sodium silicate which dried leaving a coating which acted to seal the naturally porous shells. Eggs

Not quite. Eggs were dipped in an aqueous solution of sodium silicate which dried leaving a coating which acted to seal the naturally porous shells. Eggs thus treated kept much longer. The treated

I know eggs were at one time shipped encased in sodium silicate. For those not familiar with it, sodium silicate is a liquid compound that gels when exposed to air. What is produced is a clear