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

It unfortunately "Reefer Madness" was an ill chosen group name as earlier any mistyping would get one to web sites having to do with marijuana, cannabis, etc. I guess porn was the next step ... Bob

That would, of course, exclude the many people who want nothing to do with Facebook. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Two not too! Ed Mines

Too different problems are being described in this thread. With Floquil the problem is easy to identify. The paint is a solution of a resin with colorant added. If not set up right (air pressure too

He might consider a Facebook group instead.

I spoke to Fred Freitas, the owner of the group. He basically was overwhelmed by the hacking of his group website and the problems he had trying to fix the hack. He told me he has no plans to

‎Mark Landgraf writes: "Aerodynamics gets bad when going faster than 70 mph." I think I should remind everyone including Mark that the subject matter on the STMFC is confined to freight cars in

Dave Most train performance calculators do use the Davis equation. One of the most important factors is to keep the flanges as ‎close to centered on the gauge as possible. This will occur when

Dennis, is correct… the question was asked on behalf of the Open Rails simulator (free, Open Source license). The team added curve resistance and while doing so implemented a first pass at dealing