Hi Al, I will look and see if I have the issue and if I do I will copy it and mail it to you as I do not have a scanner. It will be interesting to see the bridge and the freight cars on it! Tom

Pierre – Of course it was compressed but it WAS 10 feet long. – Al From: mailto:STMFC@... Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 7:06 PM To: STMFC@... Subject: Re: [STMFC] old photo You built a

You built a model of the Quebec bridge!? That I would love to see. Was it compressed or scale length? Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com On May 28, 2014, at 6:52 PM, "'Al

I’m getting my affairs in order. No, I’m not dying, I’m eliminatingmagazines that didn’t go with the sale of the business, ones with my photos orarticles. I’m digitizing them, along with

Ed Mines asked: "Which alcohol is used to fade paint colors with dullcote?" Isopropanol, IIRC. Mike Rose's technique article was in the July 2001 issue of RMC.  "Some alcohols attack decals and I

Anyone taking organic chemistry soon learns that adding A to B does not always result in C & D. Chemists sometimes have to stand on their heads to get get a little bit of C -put in a whole lot of

Which alcohol is used to fade paint colors with dullcote? Some alcohols attack decals and I think this would be worse for modern day thin film decals. Ed Mines

Ron, The Sunshine model is 6" too low in height. Regards, Bob Heninger Minot, ND

Seems to me we have talked around the subject. I built a Sunshine XM-26 several years ago. Exactly where are the dimensions off? Bearing in mind I'm modeling 1960, when the single sheathed

This car is numbered just beyond the M-64 series, built in 1956 by GAT for the B&O. Class M-64: Numbers 469100-469499 (500 cars). Of these, M-64a, cars 469400-46925 were equipped with Rax-Lok

Tim, I think its a M64 (Blt. GAT Corp 1956). A late 1960's renumbering from the original series. (#469100-469399). Rich Burg

Clark, I assume you’re referring to the Bx-3 and Bx-6 class sectional-wood-sheathed box cars that were converted to salt cars in the early 1950s by fitting refrigerator car doors and updated brake

Don, The Model Master paint is spectacular and I get extremely nice results straight from the can. I do enjoy showing models to folks and then saying it was painted with a spray can <VBG>. The paint

Salt was essential for low temperatures in reefer cooling, so ATSF had to move it to their various icing locations. Some of the largest on-line salt mines were at Hutchinson,

Thanks for the endorsement, Denny, And I've added a photo to my album "AndyS freight cars" on the STMFC group page showing two ExactRail MILW rib-side cars, one with the stock RP-25 wheelsets and one

Iforgot to add uncoupling levers to the car. Which I just did. While waiting forthe glue to dry so I could paint them I read Al’s data sheet. These cars wereassigned to the company salt mine at

Good Schuyler admits the following scenario: "....the worst one [fingerpring] was right on the nose of an F unit (a PRE-1960 F UNIT!!)......But I managed to save it....and no one has evernoticed

I just built a Westerfield ATSF salt car for a friend and was curious as tothe car’s use. It’s the early version painted mineral red with whitestenciling. ClarkPropst Mason City Iowa

This was pipe for an additional line constructed to run with the original line laid in 1941 from Portland to Montreal and paralleling the Grand Trunk through parts of Maine but not in New Hampshire or

How much control do you have painting with a "spray bomb" compared to a good airbrush, Bruce? Given the cost of any good brass model that did not come factory painted today I'm not about to get any