Bob Slavinski asked: "Hi Jon...do you have a like to that web site?" http://hoseeker.org/ Ben Hom

We did indeed use the 3D scan for our FPA-4 loco - There is a more detailed page here http://www.rapidotrains.com/scan.html As I discusses with Bill off list, this method really shines for

Westerfield makes them, look in that on line catalog under parts Fenton Wells -- Fenton Wells 5 Newberry Lane Pinehurst NC 28374 910-420-1144 srrfan1401@...

Hello list, I have some kits from American Model Builders that lack polling pockets. I was able to modify a quality craft white metal set for the first kit I completed, but now need more. Is there a

As a kit manufacturer, let me tell you I would be very unhappy if my product was scanned and copied regardless of scale, without permission. A lot of hard work goes into creating

I have told manufacturers at the various modeling events about this technology and their eyes appear to glaze over. Then someone mentioned that Rapido had used it on one of their locomotive projects

Don¹t know if it cost $150K or not, but ³This Old House² last week featured a hand held 3D scanner hooked to a laptop. An old plaster light fixture escutcheon was scanned, from which a replacement

John Evans wrote: "If the question about the air line is in reference to the rebuilt cars (42000 series) the attached photo of 42060 posted by Ray Stillwell on the Railfan.net LV forum might

If the question about the air line is in reference to the rebuilt cars (42000 series) the attached photo of 42060 posted by Ray Stillwell on the Railfan.net LV forum might help.  John Evans Easton,

I fail to see why a manufacturer SHOULD (as opposed to could) care if his item is copied as long as the new product was not produced in his same scale. I mean, why would an HO manufacturer who

John Last fall I was given the use of a $150,000 3D scanner for 4 hours scanning specific areas of a boxcar. It was a massive clunky “THAT is $150K” looking thing. In spite of getting the scan

Hi Jon...do you have a like to that web site?... Bob Slavinski

I know the early ones has detail on the inside (rivets, board lines, etc.) and the later castings didn't. The sheet shows an early side. I have had both types. -- Jon MillerFor me

Did the R-40-4 and R-40-8 classes have four poling pockets or two? David Thompson

For further clarification there is a web site with scans of the instruction sheets for the Ulrich

As did I, Ben, and I second your apologies. Not having an Ulrich gondola model or kit, I trusted my increasingly porous memory andI made the same mistake. Too bad Ulrich didn’t adopt the same

I wrote: "You haven't been paying attention.  As Richard Hendrickson posted a few days ago, the Ulrich [War Emergency gon] model features separate pieces for the truss and sheathing, so there is no

There was a large disbursement of privately-owned hoppers and gondolas circa 1922, prompted by one of those ICC rulings. A few of the larger fleets stayed private (Berwind, Westmoreland, Koppers), but

That was the car that PRR backdated for display at the 1939 World's Fair. It eventually found its way to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. David Thompson

Al Westerfield wrote: Yes, that clinic was indeed printed in one of the NMRA History Symposium books. In the 1990s, I organized a series, called Symposium on Railroad History, at each NMRA