In a message dated 7/23/2013 6:33:09 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, STMFC@... writes: This discussion reminds me of the 1950s, when the emergence of > injection-molded plastic threatened

Simon, modeling is modeling. But I'm not sure that I buy the "stages" of modeling. Many of our finest scratchbuilders, kitbashers and builders on this list (you know who you are! :-)) have never

Is this not the way in, though? They start with weathering, such that they can make 20 cars in the same paint scheme look different. Then they move onto repaints before the weathering stage, to create

With so many companies now bringing out "signature" freight cars (Exactrail just announced a model of a car with only one owner and only 300 cars ever built), I'm left wondering why we can't get

One thing I have noticed with RTR is that people who don't build things now have time to develop weathering and painting skills -- There were some kids (20's) at the Springfield show with a

Agreed, and there's a model train store on every street corner, right? Tell us how many stores have closed in the past five years alone. Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: geodyssey

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Larry, Thanks for the "Little Giant "issue. I was intrigued by the Fogg painting that I was sure was a photo. It reminded me that I have an original bound set of Fogg P&LE paintings about postcard

Howard Garner wrote: As Dennis pointed out, the customer charge is not per diem, but demurrage. There was not a fixed time for this, and customers could negotiate with the railroad as what this

Tom, You mentioned shrinkage in the RTV rubber mold and resin casting processes. Others have mentioned shrinkage as well. It must be significant if it is mentioned so often. Is there a given size

I consider this subject to be a subset of the "The End of the hobby in near" argument. I've been hearing variations of that since I started doing serious modeling in the early 70s. Yet today the

Today at 12:39 p.m. EDT, I saw a deedhead move of a NS diesel and a red NS center-cupola caboose on RoanokeRailCam.com. They're also assembling two sections of track panel within the camera's

Dennis, Is it possible your firm could do (or want to do) one of these in plastic? Not sure how injection molds are done now-days. -- Jon Miller For me time stopped in

Dennis wrote: Time for another of Madden's Infamous Treatises on 3D Printing That Aren't The Least Bit Interesting Now But Might Be Later.... Some background - I came into the rapid prototyping (RP)

Thanks for the link to the history talk. The change from daily to hourly per diem had a big negative impact on the finances of the WM. With daily per diem the WM was able to avoid per diem on most

We have the same problem in the UK, younger modellers when you can actually find them and a lot of older ones (the majority) cannot be bothered to build kits let alone scratch build something. Another

I was going through the MR DVDs looking for something the other day and stumbled across an editorial written by ACK himself - he mentions several modelers were distressed that all these newfangled

The charge to the customer for holding the cart too long for loading/unloading is called demurrage. Dennis

Per Diem started at Midnight for the railroad. The customer had xx days from car placement before they needed to pay per diem. Howard Garner

To give you an example of what Dennis wrote, the Rutland Railroad avoided per diem like the plague. During the Steam Era, the Rutland would receive coal for clients from interchange points in