For all you fans: http://firesigntheatre.com/index.php Scott

Bill, try it again. http://pcapp1.tripod.com/8-13-2005%207-42-34%20PM_0062.jpg Scott

"This animal is sick!", probably referring to a guy who couldn't figure out the right shade of gray for a PRR H34? Many photos did make them look almost white, but they were definitely a medium

For some reason, I am unable to view the photo in question, I just the the "Tripod" logo. The darkening could also be caused by using a lens hood or shade meant for a longer lens than the one it is

Dennis, This effect is called "vignetting" and is caused by a lens mismatched to a camera body. In modern photography, for example, using a lens designed for a digital camera with its smaller sensor,

Actually, the dark corners are familiar to anyone who carried an Argus C-2 back in the fifties and sixties... that camera consistently underexposed the corners and ends of a 35mm frame. Dennis

Awhile back, the question was raised whether Athearn sells the former MDC 100-ton trucks, used under the SP ore gondolas. They are not shown on the Athearn web pages for parts, but Athearn says those

True, Mike, and that's only one of numerous variables. With color slides, the outcome also depends on the camera and camera settings, the film, the color processing, and how - and how much - the

Todd and all The car behind the cab looks to be similar in color to the one on the right. It also looks to me that the exposure was metered off of the dark engine causing the image to be over

Todd, I don't know if this at all germane to the issue. Original paint samples from the ACF-built covered hopper cars reveal an incredibly wide range of gray shades used from 1940 to 1952. I see no

Mike, Actually, I felt that the developing or exposure might not have been consistent across the image - there seems to be an edge effect to me Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn,

I'm speculating here, look at the hopper coupled to the one that is glowing white behind the locomotive cab. "IF" that's a PRR hopper then there's clearly different shades of these cars. Again, I'm

Hmmm. Interesting photo. First, Tony and Richard may be correct that the color is way off. Tony says: "Todd, it's way green. Everything in the photo is greenish. That means the dyes have shifted or

Wow! I haven't heard anyone mention Firesign Theater in years. "Squeeze the wheeze"! Scott Haycock

Scott I just posted an example of an end door made using a vacuum-forming process. I have an extra bare plastic part that you can use to build up your end either for a project car or for

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Could someone please reply directly with what the trust and repacked would read for the mid 50s for a N&W G3 gondola? Would the trust data have still been on the car by the mid 50s? Thank

Tom, I know what you mean with the lighting.  There's seems to always have been a debate about the color Kadee chose for their models. Regardless of the color being off there's creditable evidence

Todd Horton wrote: Todd, it's way green. Everything in the photo is greenish. That means the dyes have shifted or that the light was funny when the photo was taken. The color balance is readily

I'd hoped you were referring to a glorious Firesign Theater album, something like "We're All Bozos On This Bus".-- "Not only is it not right, it's not even wrong!" From Wolfgang Pauli, perpetrator of