Sounds like a song. Does anyone sell HO scale horizontal brake wheels made of metal, either lost wax or etched? What is the actual thickness of brake staffs? Tichy recommends .020 inch wire in

What's happening is the resin in the paint is reacting with oxygen in the air, forming a tough, durable coating. Baking may not help much if the oven does not get fresh air. Some of my employer's

Since the underside of my loads are flat, I use a label maker (Brother, makes heat-sensitive tape labels) and affix under the load with the car number and my name or initials. But I don't have that

Hi Denny, I always make my own loads. I typically use styrofoam meat trays or carryout boxes, painted black or load color. I cut the foam to wedge in the space tightly, about 1/8 " below the edge

Denny; I have made hundreds of loads over many years, and the ones I like best for hoppers and gons are removable loads based on a "bed" of either resin, styrene sheet or foam, that can be lifted out

Hi Denny. Good to hear from you. I have always used live loads for every commodity and tenders. There are sound arguments for both sides and I made my choice. There are roughly 150 hoppers in coal

Hello, With pulling many cars, you may need extra weight to hold the front of the tender down. Fill the coal space with pennies to the ounces needed and top off with the base materials used previously

Denny, 1) It's a tender - so it doesn't have to be removable ... so follow one of the procedures below. 2) Fill the void in an open car such as a coal hopper with a layer of foam

I assume you're building kit 41.5, for the 13500 series? Wider, RP CYC 13 pp 1-75, has several pictures of this series. Although he doesn't state what the trucks are, they look to me like Tahoe #209,

Denny, Lately I have rethought my tender loads when moving SEFC. Unless you can always proclaim that the locomotive has just left a servicing facility as I cannot, then the tender

Denny as you are asking about a tender my thought is to go with a partial coal pile, not a full tender. Then you can put the coal below the rolled edge. Create a support base, my preference is a piece

Hi to all I have one of the Sunshine kits for this car but am unsure as to what type of truck should be fitted under it. Can anyone assist it is in HO. Thanks Rob McLear Aussie.

Denny, I have commonly used carved foam blocks to fill hoppers and such. I have faced the problem of a tender with rolled in top. What I am leaning towards doing but have not actually tried is

Denny Anspach wrote: In deeper spaces, I just add a cross-piece below the modeled surface, to serve as a spacer and raise the load to the desired level. Some cars with slope sheets don't

How have listers commonly gone about creating their own coal/gravel/crushed rock, etc. loads without filling the entire car with a fortune of model commodity materials, or creating a weight sink hard

Tim O'Connor writes: "Your choice, of course, Tony,but many people no longer use a PC at all and do all their rail-sharing viasocial media on their tablets and phones. Many fabulous modelers out

On 3/23/2016 8:16 AM, ed_mines@... [STMFC] wrote: After a very long time even with baking! I think I timed it once, a month? -- Jon MillerFor me time

Tim, I agree with Tony. I signed up for Facebook at the invitation of my sister, and I deleted the account 24 hours later after being inundated with unwanted messages. I had friends of friends of

I just Googled and found at least the 1923 year that I’m now downloading. https://archive.org/details/railwaymechanica97newyuoft Best to ya, Mike Bauers Milwaukee, Wi

Your choice, of course, Tony, but many people no longer use a PC atall and do all their rail-sharing via social media on their tablets andphones. Many fabulous modelers out there you'll never meet via