I have always figured "Bill Durown" was another pen name. SGL I didn't know that. Apparently Bob Schleicher was very prolific. The Model Train magazine index lists 119 articles by Albin Burroughs

No, Ned. That's O guage. For HO you want 000-120 lefthand threads. Custom made at $780.00 for the first one. The second one is only $225.00 FOB Zurich. The rosewood display case with magnifier is

Thanks to everyone for your suggestions - lots of creative solutions. My Southern SU boxcar has 8 truss rods. Maybe I can try a different technique for each one and test them all on one car:-)

Jace, Virginia Tech has a large library of N&W photos. Try and search _http://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/browse.php?folio_ID=/trans/nss_ (http://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/browse.php?folio_ID=/trans/nss)

I didn't know that. Apparently Bob Schleicher was very prolific. The Model Train magazine index lists 119 articles by Albin Burroughs and 136 by Bill Wright. Most are in MRG there are some listed for

Yes. He had a couple of other pseudonyms as well, Bill Wright being one of them. Early issues of MRG were often written almost entirely by Schleicher, a fact which the psuedonyms concealed so

Is it true that Albin Burroughs was actually Robert Schleicher writing under a pen name, so his magazines (Model Railroading, RailModel Journal) wouldn't be dominated by one author? KL

SGL inquires- My experience is that ACC seems to make up a really tenacious joint between monofilament line and turnbuckles. In this regard I have not questioned the inherent relative adherence

B&O had four different boxcar paint schemes from the mid 1930s and the mid 1940s. There is a Chris Barkan pdf file on the Baltimore_and_Ohio Yahoo group that shows B&O box car lettering vs time.

Easy, I don't solder. Bill Welch

Clever! If this were Facebook (and thank God it's not) I'd "Like" this. SGL What has worked for me in the past was to heat one end of a piece of the nylon filiment. With a bit of practice I

Whoops. Sorry, all the photos of the cars when new which show them with heralds show them without reporting marks, just the heralds above the numbers. Richard Hendrickson

Richard, Um, right, that's what I said, sort of <G>. I just checked the RP Cyc photos and they both have the small capitol dome with no reporting marks (no B&O) on that side, representing an "early

Bruce, the problem here is that many – on the evidence, I'm inclined to say most – of the M-53s were delivered with small capitol dome heralds above the reporting marks and numbers. I have a photo of

Bill, et al., If the turnbuckles and wire are brass, why couldn't you tin the wires, and spot solder the wires to the turnbuckle on either end? That would produce a stronger joint and still preserve

The way that I have done this which isn't totally correct is to tie a knot one one end of the mono-filament, put it in the underframe which would be in the car body, route the mono-filament over the

Ned: After building a couple of cars with the fishing line and then over the years watching it loosen I have gone ALL BRASS. Grandt Line also does their turnbuckles in brass. Working carefully it is

I know that it seems counter-intuitive, but it does work and quite well. At least for me. Keep a bottle of accelerator handy and fresh CA. Pierre Oliver

Thanks, Bruce I'll move my grits and see what paint colors I have. I still have one more Sunshine wagontop and several ACL and C&WC cars to build and being lazy was hoping there was something

O Fenton Wells asks, referring to prewar B&O colors: best Fenton, y'all (*using the more inclusive southernism, since there are some ladies out there), The suggestion was made that Roof Brown was an