Hi Tom, At the bottom of the emails in this thread, there are words to the effect 'View or Reply Online'. If you click on that link, it takes you to the most recent message in the thread, and under

Brian, how about using the thinnest stripwood you can find to make a rectangle for the sign, attach with Elmers, and then attach the wood to the car side with contact cement, ACC, or something else?

Thanks for your suggestions. Actually, I remembered (after sending the email, of course) that I had some 3M adhesive tape I bought for building some brass passenger cars that have multiple side

Tony, you wrote: "And though it does appear that such formats as TIFF and PDF are holding up -- so far — they may well be superseded in the future. Obviously any archive has to stay on top of such

Try a light coat of 3M spray mount adhesive. If you want it to be "permanent", slap it on the car right away while still wet. If you want it to be removable, let it air dry for a a bit, then slap it

Canopy glue! I use it all the time for paper onto models. Tony Thompson tony@...

I am re-creating the box car in the attached photo. I have done everything except affix the white paper sign to the right side. I’m a little anxious about how to do this without discoloring the

Tony There is no reason to be concerned about file formats - JPEG TIFF PNG GIF etc etc - because they are simply logical layouts of information that any 12 year old computer programmer could easily

Two points. First, the banner would not have been allowed in transit, so was obviously applied in place, to publicize the sale. Second, there is no reason to believe the reefer shown necessarily

The comment on this topic, made in passing, about obsolescence of storage media, is far from trivial. Museums and libraries which began to store information on various kinds of disks had to transfer

Reefer Load Of Fish Photo courtesy of Barry Sell. He commented: “Tiedtke's Department Store, Toledo, Ohio [approximately 1950] A photo of a refrigerated railcar advertising Tiedtke's Carload

And many railroads themselves destroyed much of their historical records, memorabilia and collectable items when reorganizing management in the 1970's and 80's. I am aware that B&O/Chessie ordered

In addition to the SRHA, the B&O Railroad Historical Society also has a permanent archives building and significant document collections. A team of 12-15 volunteers inventories, scans and archives

Umm - perhaps I'm just dense or something, but I've looked back a bit to see if I can find the original discussion to which these posts refer, but I've been unsuccessful. Could one of you perhaps

I have to “second” all of Jerry’s and Tim’s comments! As the Southern Railway group’s (SRHA) Archives Director, I am asked quite often if I know what happened to particular photos or

I have jpegs scanned in 1998 and PDFs scanned in 1995 that all work just fine. Ray Breyer Elgin, IL

One of the gravest issues with digital media is that the software for retrieving and viewing becomes outdated and new operating platforms do not support older programming. It takes much effort to

I firmly support what Tim and Dick have posted. For over 30 years I have cajoled people with Missouri Pacific information (slides, prints, egativers, paper items, etc.) to get them 'out of the

I'd say if Jack has a digital photo collection that he intends to go to the CSRM Library, why not donate it NOW? Then the rest of the world can have access and use it. Or maybe see something that

I think wide sharing is really is the best guarantee of -digital- preservation, at least for a generation. After I'd scanned a few thousand slides, I shared a large number of