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Re: Metal Running Boards

Mike Bauers asked: "What is that ‘RPC’ you refer to ????" Railway Prototype Cyclopedia Volume 16, still available from the publisher. http://www.rpcycpub.com/v16.html Ben Hom

By Benjamin Hom · #135275 ·

Re: Metal Running Boards

Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2015 12:03 PM To: STMFC@... Subject: Re: [STMFC] Metal Running Boards John Sykes wrote: Second, is there any HO model that better represents one

By JP Barger · #135273 ·

Re: 41-foot gon questions

Oh great, NOW you tell me. :-( By the way, I have a car numbered 88991. Is the Accurail model ok forthat one? Tim O'Connor

By Tim O'Connor · #135272 ·

Re: 41-foot gon questions

Tim the message I received included listings of CNW gons through 1955. I get individual emails delivered to my inbox in Outlook2010. Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org

By Douglas Harding · #135271 ·

Re: Metal Running Boards

Tim O'Connor wrote: Tim, there's a reason I chose to live in California . Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

By Tony Thompson · #135270 ·

Re: 41-foot gon questions

The CNW historical society was selling replacement wood floors for the Accurail gon on ebay a while back. Jeff White Alma, IL On 7/8/2015 1:28 PM, destorzek@... [STMFC]

By Jeffrey White · #135269 ·

Re: Metal Running Boards

While using my A1016 with my model 5.1-C07G3VACDJD0, while viewing on my N2QAYB-remote controlled TC-39A400U monitor…… I happen to notice your reference in 'Message-Id:

By mwbauers · #135274 ·

Re: modeling highway trucks

Scrap plastic sprue material often has all kinds of interesting shapes including parabolic cones, spheres, half-spheres, etc etc. I throw all my old sprues into a cardboard box. (Following the rule

By Tim O'Connor · #135268 ·

Re: Sylvan Models, was modeling highway trucks

> Claire is indeeda gracious gentleman and his kits are excellent, but are the HO carsstill in production? No, Claire decided years ago to stop making freight cars. He makesvehicles for the simple

By Tim O'Connor · #135267 ·

Re: Metal Running Boards

Not to disagree Tony, but have your freight cars withstood the "sub-zero to seventy in 60 seconds" sproing test? I totally agree about flexibleadhesives, but in spite of it every now and then...

By Tim O'Connor · #135266 ·

Re: 41-foot gon questions

Gene did your message get truncated by Yahoo? ... or does yourinformation only go up to 1923 ? It seems when people post long emails from the Yahooweb site they frequently get cut off. Tim O'Connor

By Tim O'Connor · #135265 ·

Re: 41-foot gon questions

---In STMFC@..., <genegreen1942@...> wrote : The Accurail gondola has 11 panels, solid bottom, fixed Dreadnaught ends, Ajax hand brake and AB brakes. Accurail chose to decorate their gondola model for

By destorzek@... · #135264 ·

Re: modeling highway trucks

Thanks to all who replied with with suggestions how to create headlight lenses but these are external mounted headlights attached to the sides of the hood not part of the truck body. I have been

By Ken Adams · #135263 ·

Boston and Maine ice cars

Looking for the correct color of the single sheathed ice cars for the Fresh Pond Ice fleet. I have pictures that appear to show them in boxcar red and white. Written newspaper article mentioning only

By Jay Lewis · #135262 ·

Re: Sylvan Models, was modeling highway trucks

Alex, Yes, the cars are still on the siteyou referenced, just click on the REA truck and scroll and scroll. Chuck Hladik In a message dated 7/8/2015 11:59:51 A.M. Eastern Daylight

By Charles Hladik · #135261 ·

Re: Metal Running Boards

John Sykes wrote: I agree with Tim O'Connor about thickness. The Kadee running board is a tour de force in styrene molding (ask anyone in the business) but is not only too thick, it also represents

By Tony Thompson · #135260 ·

Re: Sylvan Models, was modeling highway trucks

Claire is indeed a gracious gentleman and his kits are excellent, but are the HO cars still in production? I don’t see them on the web site http://sylvanscalemodels.com/ Built up kits for

By Alex Schneider · #135259 ·

Re: 41-foot gon questions

Scott, Here's what I have on CNW gondolas subject, as always, to correction by the more learned members of this august group. I have included all the gondolas about which I have any information even

By genegreen1942@... · #135257 ·

Re: modeling highway trucks

The Ulrich Mack COE is a model of the 1953 H-60 series. This one was known as the "cherry picker" because of its extraiodinary cab height This model was quickly supplanted by the H-63 ( the Sylvan

By Bill McCoy · #135256 ·

Re: 41-foot gon questions

Scott, Here's a quick look at a few gondola prototypes that have similarities to your target car and to offer historical perspective. In addition to the number of panels, I've found the outside

By Eric Hansmann · #135255 ·

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