Greg Martin wrote: Not to pick on Greg, but I think this "box scale" story is an urban legend. Athearn had several other box sizes for passenger cars and locomotives, and to maintain that

Regular grade is available in most hardware stores as well as Lowes and Home Depot. I also only use it as styrene glue. -- Jon Miller For me time stopped in 1941 Digitrax--Chief/Zephyr

IIRC, I found some 1920-era topos on this site a while back. http://data.geocomm.com/catalog/US/61079/1516/group4-3.html David Thompson

Jared Harper wrote: If the label doesn't say MEK, it might list 2-butanone. Same stuff. Chuck Soule

I returned to Oelwein, Iowa -- CGW's Hub City -- today and took photos and made measurement of the M&StL bulkhead flat toolbox. If any of this would be of use to you (or anyone else here), let me

Al, Don't know for sure. My guess would be no more than 300 dpi. The files are big enough to be much more than that. Rich Orr

Group, A project is underway to produce Wabash hopper decals in O Scale. Basically, these would be O Scale versions of Mark Vaughan's HO hopper decals. At this time, it is planned to have both 18"

Rich, Many thanks! Do you know what dpi they have scanned them at?  MyTopo is marginal:  OK for a PPT presentation, but leaves a little to be desired for an article image. Al

Al. Try this. http://mysite.verizon.net/resteele1/newsites/va_historical_topos.htm Rich Orr

Al, Oh course they do... They have been doing it for years... And they transmit signals to you while your sleeping making you believe that the Athearn Gondola has a prototype similarity....

Peter, Hope I am not to late to the party. As I reminded everyone at my Clinic in Cocoa Beach when we were cutting these critters up to make something a bit more scale out of them (thanks to Richard

Peter, this topic comes up periodically on the STMFC list, and the answer is always the same. There is NO prototype for the Athearn 48' mill gondola. I have it on the authority of the toolmaker

Jared Harper wrote: Jared, I too am a straight MEK devotee'. Works da' Bomb!!! Would not consider using anything else. I had an "in" with a pharma supplier in Upstate NY, that allowed me to obtain

IM 8K undec tankcar are available from Andy Carlson. Email: midcentury@... Sent from my LG phone Drew <phillydrewcifer@...> wrote:

Me too, it's cheap and it works very well. Fenton -- Fenton Wells 3047 Creek Run Sanford NC 27332 919-499-5545 srrfan1401@...

Um...er...yes, that would be the 49' version of the 52' Bethlehem Steel that I was referring to...I did know the Athearn car was a "shorty", yet still I recall a couple of threads referencing a

I am surprised no one has mentioned MEK. That's all I have been using for years to join styrene. It works great! Jared Harper Athens, GA

Greg. Horrors! Do the enter cat doors too? Jared Harper Athens, GA

Tim O'Connor wrote: The DA dome is a cylinder which has to be placed in a hole of its EXACT diameter, not easy to create on a cylinder amongst the remnants of the former dome. I fussed awhile