I thought the hotel rooms were quite nice, although the toilets sounded like a freight train going into emergency. The facility was adequate overall, but kind of a rat maze. I heard there were 300+

Elden, stringers? I have three photos of F41 decks, there are no stringers visible. (Seems like that would always be true, since stringers support the deck.) Tim O'

Tony, is it my imagination or have you not done the most obvious choice of color yet: Freight Car Red! :-) Tim O' I think I reserved one. What color(s) are they? Large, black if that's an

If the weight of your stash exceeds your body weight, then you qualify for the "big" stash distinction. Otherwise, you are just a piker. :-) Tim O'Connor

To expand on Bill's post. Chad is open to doing more flat cars. Please be able to supply enough info for him to build a master with your request. He needs about 30 orders to make a model

Wull . . . . I think I reserved one. What color(s) are they? Large, black if that's an option . . . Let me know the $. SGL From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] On

Hello Group, To everyone who attended my first RPM presentation on Friday night, thanks for attending. I wish I would have had a second time slot, but such is life. I did want to point out for

It was applied to both but was the first scheme used on the red cars according to the B&O Historical Society info. Rich Orr

Rich, I'm a bit confused. I've just received a couple of the Fox cars with the 13 Great States herald in brown paint. Do you mean to say that the 13 Great States herald was ONLY applied to the

Hi, Tony - thanks for making this available! All - on my computer (Win7) I had to download and open the file using Adobe to get it to print correctly.

Hi STMFC I was researching covered hoppers and discovered several types of discharge systems I was not familiar with. Can anyone provide information or photos of an Enterprise "short track"

Among the many good things from the weekend in Lisle these were a few highlights IMO. Chad Boas did a "Land Office" business with his several new flat cars. I cannot find her card with her name

This conversation has just inspired me to dream up a "Model Marinator" logo... perhaps a couple stacks of Shake the Box kit boxes as viewed from the end. -- Jeff

gary laakso wrote: Interesting thought, Gary. <g> But then would we have to define what is a "big" stash of kits? Would a person owning a single unbuilt resin kit qualify? This opens a can of

Are you considering doing a version captioned: "friends of the stash of resin car kit boxes"? gary laakso south of Mike Brock vasa0vasa@...

Just an update for those interested. We sold around half the shirts at Lisle, and will take the remainder to Cocoa Beach in January. At this point, so as to have a good selection at Cocoa Beach,

At the just-concluded Lisle meeting, Richard Hendrickson and I did a joint clinic on weathering of freight cars. We ran out of handouts, so I have posted the handout document via GoogleDocs on my

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Tim you are right. I have one partly built, and chose the Walthers since it looks more like a cast frame than the Tichy, and also the lack of cast-on board

Can someone please provide some background on this model? Here is what I am looking for specifically: Builder Years built dimensional data (especially inside length and CUFT) approximately what

Just a quick "Thank You" to Joe and all involved in putting on the Lisle RPM meet (formerly.... and soon to be again... known as "Naperville"). The meet was a great success, the clinics that I