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

There was a discussion about this car on the Yahoo WP List awhile back but it was inconclusive. One person suggested that the car was a wreck repair that used a panel from a retired SLSF box car.

I examined the several samples on the ExactRail table, and they are SUPERB models. I'm gonna buy when when I can. 'Nuf said. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906

Steve Vallee wrote: Um, SP "oval" ?? Not sure about that. I don't note anything about such a lease in the ORER for 1938, but it might not have been listed there. Tony Thompson

Regarding the Floquil metallic paints, add a fair amount of Floquil retarder and give the model two or three thinned coats rather than one heavy one. Allow it to dry between coats. The retarder will

Brian, While at the Lisle RPM I was fortunate to have spent some time with Blaine Hadfield of ExactRail. Blaine explained that the M-53 models on display were production samples and that production

Tim...    I'm sorry to say I was not the one who spotted this odd car. I reported what was written in that issue of Railroad Magazine.   Sorry for any confusion.   Steve

Yes, it is true. This is another M-53 RTR plastic offering. No, there is no formal announcement on the E-R site. Apparently it is from Chris Clune tooling completed a number of years ago. It MAY

Exact Rail had several M-53 models on display at Lisle. They were very nice. They had better detail than the Fox Valley models in my opinion although both are good, especially on the underframe.