Tim O'Connor wrote: "Good idea, Ben, but no, the magic prototype fairies have failed to produce a USRA tank car, even though we've been furiously building these kits for years!" You misunderstand me

Good idea, Ben, but no, the magic prototype fairies have failed to produce a USRA tank car, even though we've been furiously building these kits for years! Tim

There , that title should have gotten some attention. Ken Soroos, who is editing said book to be published by the Soo Line Historical & Technical Society, has contacted me looking for current e-mail

I suppose, just for history's sake, I should point out that at the time the car was tooled, we had essentially nothing, so ANYTHING was better than what we had. While the were people who wanted

Gee, I think we've offered both: http://accurail.com/accurail/ART/3700/3728.jpg http://accurail.com/accurail/ART/3700/3733.jpg It looks like we still have stock on the WLE car, likely because of the

BRANCHLINE/INTERMOUNTAIN/RED CABOOSE/RIB SIDE MODELS/ LL P2K Lamenting the passing of decorated kits? I have the following HO kits, all brand new. Almost all kits are unlabeled with dealer

Clark Propst wrote: "Reading about the Tichy tank car again gave me an idea. I have lists of tank cars that we at the packing plant I model and have no idea what they looked like. I might pick up a

Reading about the Tichy tank car again gave me an idea. I have lists of tank cars that we at the packing plant I model and have no idea what they looked like. I might pick up a couple of the Tichy

Isn't that the truth! And they came out how many years before those other highly touted ones who had the benefit of more research and technology. Jerry Glow

I have them for the NKP including the converted to coke service version. I could do a set for WLE if provided data. Jerry Glow http://home.comcast.net/~jerryglow/decals.html

Denny Anspach wrote: The irony is that if it had been honestly presented from the beginning, reviewers would not have been all over it for pretending to be something it isn't. But as Denny

It's still the best engineered HO plastic tank car kit ever. I love them myself; don't care if they are foobies. It's one thing to assess the qualities of a model and say, well, it is flawed in this

SGL, One source is Sunshine Models. See the Sunshine list, kit no. 67 series. Regards, Ed Hawkins

And, does anybody know of decals? If this was answered later than Elden's post, forgive me, I have not read them all. SGL What was the number series of the ex-WLE gons when transferred to

Clark I believe it is a variation of a stockcar, the "hatches" are actually storage boxes used to hold feed for the livestock. This of course predates the 1906 28 hour law, when railroads experimented

It's an incline railway. The elevated type structure was used to even out the dips in the grade. More phots here; scrool down to "Panel

Huh. I don't dispute what you say you got for results, but the 10MB Tiffs sure didn't do that for me; Shorpy's were much better. The LOC tiffs weren't much better than the full panorama on Shorpy. --

As with virtually everything posted on Shorpy, you can find the REAL photos at the Library of Congress website. It's not hard: usually, Shorpy saves the images with their original LoC digital call

Whoops, Depending on what version of this photo you look at the "flume" could be left or right. Any ideas what this is? Todd Horton ________________________________ To: STMFC@... Sent:

Excuse me, I meant upper left corner. Todd Horton ________________________________ To: STMFC@... Sent: Thu, May 12, 2011 4:36:43 PM Subject: [STMFC] Beautiful 1905 Panaorama   The