Hello all: We are working on the program for this year's NE Proto Meet/NERPM, scheduled for Friday and Saturday, June 2-3, 2017 in Enfield, Connecticut, and we hope you can join us. Our meet

Tim O’Connor writes: “Any ACF photos published in the USA (say, in a Car Builder Cyclopedia) before 1923 are expired copyrights - they are in the PUBLIC DOMAIN - unless they were republished

Any ACF photos published in the USA (say, in a Car BuilderCyclopedia) before 1923 are expired copyrights - they are in the PUBLIC DOMAIN- unless they were republished later with notice (1923 to 1963)

Tim O'Connor says: "..but you can't post photos to STMFC yet". True. I'm not sure what Tim means by "yet". Photos may be sent to the STMFC but require "approval" for display in order to verify

Claus, I don't think this Coal & Coke box car has an end door. While there are end door dimensions on the ORER listing, I think these reflect the sizes of the smaller doors on the car side that can

Dennis - When I copied the AC&F builders photos I was given permission to reproduce them in any way I wanted. If you have the Westerfield AC&F photos disk you can also do so. - Al Westerfield

Well, it's been nice reading the heated discussion about the new Accurail car kit. I have to apologize for my rather terse reply Friday... I was feeling like crap, checked the e-mail one last time

they sound interesting but you can't post photos to STMFC yet

Well…I forgot that you can’t attach photos and also failed to note how to purchase these car supports. I’ve uploaded the photos to my website at:

A couple of years ago, I designed a pair of HO freight car supports and had them printed in 3D by Shapeways. They let you position a model freight car that you are working on with either the roof up

Hope the sheriff might indulge this day late postingand look the other way. Ken Zieska is hosting a Model Railroad Retreat inthe Minneapolis Suburb of Plymouth, MN Dates are Friday, March 3rd,

Tim O'Connor wrote: I knew Byron well when I lived in Pittsburgh, and would fully agree with Tim's description. But Byron's shortcoming is that to him, ALL errors are equally serious. To him,

Tim O'Connor wrote: True, and I can't paint a finger at the writer, But if I hd been the one forwarding, I would have deleted the "avoid" sentence. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature

My,my ,my,Don't forget the Rutland. Armand Premo

I’m delighted to see these cars being delivered at last. I’m wondering whether some of the lucky folks who already have one could take out the calipers and start to give us some core dimensions

Eric, I had to run to the post office and neglected to add that the short box was 57917, 9.4% of the US XM count. The 119,727 in North America was 16.3% of the continental XMs. When you look at the

Ahh, nice to hear Byron is still around and able to kick dirt (a.k.a. facts) into faces when said dirt is present. Not always nice but always useful. If I may I’d like to add that some of the

I too, am looking forward to the L&N artwork and also that for the MKT cars. Cheers, Bill Keene Irvine, CA

Tony The "trash talk" was not posted to this list - it was a privatecommunication that was forwarded to the list. And, I've seen plenty of models trashedhere over the years, many times unfairly and/or

I'm really not sure why Andy has tried to mask Byron Rose'sidentity. Byron is not shy about sharing his opinions, and he is about as"extreme" a modeler as I've ever met - even more so than Bill Welch,