Steve - 5th Avenue Car Shops is still around. Jim is currently dealing with family illness. Be patient and he will be catching up shortly. Jerry

Kent, some lettering decal input for you. If you can avoid it, do not use the supplied decals for your F&C N-34 wagontop kit. Worst B&O decals ever. Little resemblance to prototype practice. Here

Dear Frank, In case you do not have the Culotta "Tank Cars" book, page 65 shows NDX 608 which appears to be like the ACOX 5259 Semet Solvay Div Allied Chemical one we discussed yesterday. This one

STMFC members, The RP CYC Publishing Company is pleased to announce the imminent release of RAILWAY PROTOTYPE CYCLOPEDIA, Volume 24, scheduled for distribution beginning in the first week of April

Gize (and Ashley), I just uploaded a pdf of the Unit Truck ad that I enquired about Thursday evening. It is near the end of the list in the Files section. Richard answered my question, pretty much,

Just looking at them hard seems to cause them to break. ;-) Ain't that the truth... Thank you both for the heads up on the stanchions, I shall check them out. -- Ashley

Luckily I have a couple of kits stashed away for a rainy day, so I shall scan the handrail sprue to make a pattern for the replacement handrails in due course. For those of you who don't do blogs I

It IS unfortunate that these kits suffer from monomaterial disease. Not all parts can successfully be made from the same material. Others have mentioned the Precision Scale stanchions, which are

I received kits from him several months ago, rather quickly I might add. He was having problems with email through his web site and he did post an alternate of speedwitchmedia at gmail dot com to

Walthers recently filled an order for me for the Precision Scale stanchions through my dealer (order on the web site, and then click-click to have the order fulfilled by your LHS). I ordered them

Matt, I don't know the answer to that question. Recently, however, Chad has been casting quite a few flat cars and doors. He has done several doors for the guys from the STMFC group and sold them

Ashley, Handle them carefully? <G> Seriously though, this is one of the weak points of these cars. I have yet to have to do this, but I think the suggestion to use Precision Scale brass stanchions

Has any manufacturer produced a 7' Early Youngstown door...the type of door used on the IMWX/RC 1937 AAR box car? Thank you, Matt Sugerman, Ft Worth, TX

Does, or has anyone come up with a solution for makinghte handrails on these cars more robust? Is there a commercial product, or a good way to replace the plastic handrails with wire/ -- Ashley

Brian, The change actually occurred within an order, ACF lot 4741, 400 cars in series 109000-109399 built 11-56. According to my notes (not sure where I got the information), the first 200 cars

Tom Birkett wrote: This "Flying A" was the Associated Oil Company logo. Tidewater and Associated were combined in the 1930s by Getty interests to form Tidewater Associated Oil Company. Although

<p>Hey!<br><br>I lost control of my spending habits my life would still be miserable without this all the stress was starting to take a toll on me...<br><a

Since tank cars have been the subject lately, a question has arisen: Apparently Tidewater tank cars came with the winged "A" logo in large and small (with a circle) versions. Did the large or small

Would anyone on the list be able to convert PDF files to AutoCAD DWG files? If so, please contact me off list at mopac1 at classicnet dot net Thanks, Gene Semon

Frank, I'm sending you off-list a ca. 1958 photo of a Semet-Solvay tank car with the later lettering style. The car is quite dirty and weathered, so the lettering would have been applied at some