Dave: If you add a fish belly underframe and make up an original USRA roof you can make a Frisco rebuilt car from the Tichy kit. Jerry Glow makes decals for this car. He also makes an excellent P&LE

The general arrangement and lettering drawings listed on the PRRT&HS web site are a very small fraction of the drawings that are on the microfilm. The PRR microfilmed nearly all of their drawings ca.

When Bob Buck was running the show he called me to say anytime I wanted to come he’d have tables for me. We went once, got caught in a snow storm and minus degree weather and never went back. With

I have both a hard copy of the 1946 Cyc and the Vintage Reproductions DVD. I bought the DVD to reduce the amount of handling for the reasons mentioned by Dennis Storzek. I hadn't noticed the missing

Has anyone completed either the 102.2 or 102.3 kits from Sunshine? Please contact me off list. Thanks Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com

The heck with the rivets, look at the bottom mounted rollers on the doors!!!!! Could we have at last found the prototype for the old Athearn Blue Box cars and their claw like rollers????

Is this a comprehensive list of their holdings? The car I'm looking for wasn't included in the index. David Thompson

Mere siphon is not enough. The pressure of the water entering the boiler must exceed that of the steam pressure inside the boiler. Gene Green

Tom I do not fault Martin. I'll never understand how that group runs the show. Sometimes I think it succeeds despite them, not because of them. They gave my group (Free-Mo) a HUGE amount of space

Dave – You could hold your nose and put MILW decals on the 6453 kits or sell them to someone in the group or on eBay and use the money towards the Sunshine models. If you do the former, I’ll

Dave Schroedle asked: "I have 3 of your 6453 kits and a Tichy USRA rebuild that I need Midwestern RR's for any ideas ?" How about Wabash for the Tichy USRA

Tim, The reason that Martin has never been to Springfield was that they could not guarantee him table space. They have been after him to come for a long time, but each time he asked for table space,

Ben, that's probably a spell-check correction, you know. We all knew what he meant. SGL Allen Cain wrote: "These employ the venture effect to syphon water from the tender into the boiler

Thanks AL, great now I'm in a real bind, I have 3 of your 6453 kits and a Tichy USRA rebuild that I need Midwestern RR's for any ideas ? Regards Dave Schroedle

I also bought one of these. After using it for a while I noticed that not all of the original pages are included. I don't know how many are missing but I counted to a hundred and stopped counting.

Hi Claus, Thank you. Glad to be of help. Joel Holmes

The same book has photos of CRLX 8814 and 8742 (p 39) and 8702 (p 41). There's also a roof-and-end shot of CRLX 8735 in the NMRA Bulletin, 4/96, p 2. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

Allen Cain wrote: "These employ the venture effect to syphon water from the tender into the boiler by passing steam thru the venture throat which develops the suction pressure to move the water." Not

A couple weeks ago Bill Welch was asking after a glossary of car building terms; from there the discussion turned to the Car Builder's Dictionary and Cyclopedia series of publications, along with the

Hi List Members, Wanting to send a big thank you for all the help on this topic over the last couple of weeks. Joel, thanks for the lead on the 1906 CBD, I had the 1909 CBD conveniently located on