I've only used epoxy for the purpose; it's not as scary as a soldering iron. :-) Tim

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REALLY, Bill?? Neither the Bachmann flat car nor the trailer is remotely prototypical.If that trailer is really 35' long it doesn't look like any 35' trailer I'veseen. It does look a lot like a Strick

I may have mentioned this before, but the current owner of this tooling for the truck is Jimmy Booth. He recommends using a pencil tip soldering iron to fuse the bolster to the sideframes. If you have

As the Chair of the NYCSHS Modeling Committee, the editor of our e-zine, NYCentral Modeler and as a director in the Society I have a couple of remarks. Our Society is growing at over 7% a year for the

Tim O'Connor wrote: You are entirely right, Tim, that the kit trucks are the correct 70-ton Barbers. I assumed he wanted to change them out. I am personally not enamored with the operation of

I was reading the latest issue of "Model Freightways" today that focuses on 1/87 trucks. Although I cannot really model TOFC in Dixieland in 1955, I thought people that can may want to know the

Mike gives the UPHS more credit than they deserve. Atlas changed the tooling on their own, long before UPHS decided to join the latest Atlas production run of those cars in China. Mike's article and

Or, if you want the HO specifically designed truck which came with these kits the first couple of years after the release from red Caboose (The original company offering these flats), go to Dan Smith

George and Tony -- Red Caboose tooled the correct 70 ton Barber trucksfor these cars. I'm guessing the SPH&TS didn't acquire the truck toolingalong with the flat car? I have a supply of them for my

This isn't new. Why, even as we speak, there are squads of PrototypePolice scouring the countryside to confiscate and destroy inaccurate models of freightcars to ensure that not even a trace of them

Ike That blade has two edges. People who are serious historical modelersmight submit their articles to another publication rather than have it appear alongside some clearlyincorrect article. You can't

All, Sorry for what may appear to be a shameless plug, but one thing Bruce and Elden did not note, but has been important to the success of TKM, is that nearly every rolling stock article that I can

Thank you, Steve. That’s a nice comparison photo. Very helpful. Michael Gross Facebook.com/ActorMichaelGross Twitter.com/MichaelGrossBiz

---In STMFC@..., <hayden_tom@...> wrote : "I'd like to chime in here. I agreewith the “moderates” in this argument. RR Historical societies have theirplace, their own goals, skills, desires,

George Toman wrote: George, the cars were delivered with Barber S-2-A0 trucks, built under license by three manufacturers (Scullin, Buckeye and Symington) and were of course 70-ton trucks, as

Hello group, I purchased a SP F-70-7 Flat and the 22Foot PMT Trailers from the SPH&TS. Looks like nice kits, but I would like to improve the detail. I was wondering if someone could tell me the type

I would like to most sincerely thank all who expressed their opinions in this discussion. There was some excellent thinking and good writing by all participants, and some passion, too. I plan to

Each time I did a new model I would send a sample to Byron Rose as thanksfor reviewing my instructions. Inevitably, he would call to complain thatI could have done it much better and with more

Aidrian Bridgeman-Sutton wrote: Aha! A new frontier for us freight car geeks! Thank you Aidrian, for showing us another way forward! Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press,