Apologies all - thought this was off-line. However now that I am taking up bandwidth anyway, I had the distinct privilege of operating on Jared's layout a few weeks ago. His approach of using a

Probably not, but I didn’t see them. Do you recall what issues? Perhaps I can still find them somewhere. Dave Nelson

Addendum: I expect all operators to seriously commit. I need three people to operate the layout, so if you say you will come I expect you to come. Jared Harper

I need three people for my January 2016 operating session on Santa Fe's Alma branch. The three operators will serve as engineer, conductor and brakeman on trains 95/96 from Burlingame, KS, to Alma,

Other than the ones Ed Hawkins assembled as part of the RMJ articles on each type of Branchline 50' car? Ron Merrick

Dave, I am not aware of a similar list for Postwar AAR 50-foot box cars. Eric Hansmann El Paso, TX

Yes, that's excellent, thanks. Is there a similar list for the BL Blueprint 50ft cars? Dave Nelson

I have already attended my "perfect clinic", given by Jack Spencer about 10 years ago at Naperville. I saw the title, something about "redetailing a '37 AAR MP box car". I wondered how the subject

Knowing a lot about a little makes you a specialist, however there is a caveat to that. I don’t know who said this first, but it bears repeating. “A generalist a man knows a little about a lot

First, let me say I enjoy freight car clinics of all types. I did a freight car clinic once where I only showed company cars that Icould prove were off line and only the ones that could be modeled. If

Gene’s article is excellent and I actually scanned it and have a .pdf copy on my computer (along with his excellent article on freight car brake systems) for quick reference. Jack

I think you folks are going to need a study of every possible car, in each major production run, for their group rivet patterns. A while back, a trolley modeling bud of mine surprised me with a rivet

See April 1997 Mainline Modeler for everything you wanted to know about rivets but were afraid to ask. And please forgive my lack of modesty since the author and I have the same name. Gene Green

The Kadee car would be the best choice: http://www.kadee.com/ca/50ton/jpg/7054l.jpg http://www.kadee.com/c... Preview by Yahoo

All, Looking to add a Lehigh and New England twin open top hopper car to the fleet to serve a customer on my 1956 HO B&O Shenandoah SD. I see that hat they were made by Accurail, Atlas, and MTH among

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Mike, Atlas announced the purchase of Branchline in January 2011. Richard Bale Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine Always free atmrhmag.com In a message dated 11/28/2015 9:42:20 P.M. Pacific

Joel, If no one else has offered to help you out, I would be happy to do so for the price of mailing. I have an envelope already, so that's not a problem. Send me a e-mail offlist to: with your

Bill… If you can determine the typical rivet sizes from drawings in the Cyclopedias, you can Google rivet sizes and find charts which will give the specifics of them…head radius, etc. Jack

Dave, I uploaded the 2007 catalog to the files area. I think this was pretty close to the time the rolling stock line was sold to Atlas as there are some passenger cars that were announced but not