http://www.atlasrr.com/HOFreight/ho11000tanks5.htm The blurb says these are tanks built up from 1947 through the mid-50s. But are the paint schemes shown on these cars appropriate for that time

Would the old Athearn 40' steel boxcar be a good choice for this car. Found an article by Jim Fuhrman with Greg Martin in RMC April 1994 about making this car. Suggestions and thanks in

I picked MM as I knew it would pull at everyone's emotions but you could easily see how the contents of the various magazines could be made available. By the way, Popular Mechanics and Life are all

If MM had Popular Science's readership, not only would there be money for this sort of stuff; the magazine would still be with us :-( Dennis

Vince Wow, nice! Obviously they turned every issue into a PDF so you can do a text search on anything. I searched on "flying saucer" and found everything from articles to advertisements with that

Pop over to this site: http://www.popsci.com/archives and imagine, if you will, that instead of Popular Science it was say, Mainline Modeler. Makes you

I wouldn't think it would be all that massive these days. There aren't as many magazines as there were five years ago. KL

Bob Witt: You mean you haven't scanned them for your personal use already? :-) I've heard from secondary sources that the intention is to do a book of Ted's articles. Tom Madden

Dennis Storzek wrote: on disk. Just to set the record straight, the Model Train Magazine Index has a different origin. The search engine software was written and original database compiled by Jeff

Tim- It would not have to be, but the amount of labor involved would make it difficult to put together a solid business plan for a commercial venture. The right not-for-profit group could make it a

I assume that Tom is referring to the origins of the Data Train index on disk. Just to set the record straight, the Model Train Magazine Index has a different origin. The search engine software was

Tom, yes I am only guessing it was Larry Puckett from Kalmbach's description of the original software -- but you're right someone else could have done it as well. Long ago I started my system of notes

I'm sending you, attached to a separate e-mail, an end view which will answer your questions about the end, as well as a 3/4 taken shortly after the car was converted from Fe-P. Roof color

Hi Jim.   Roof was black and the walk was mineral red.  Ends were not black. I built mine with 7 rungs.   Dennis Williams/ Owner www.resinbuilders4u.com

Tim O'Connor wrote: Tim, that sounds like Data Train of Texas, and I think the seller was Larry Puckett. I too bought that database at the 1991 Denver NMRA National. But I think someone else was the

Were are all these photos you are talking about being posted . . . . in a photo album in our group?  My server has deleted most links and won't let me into Shorpe. We had A.O. Smith in Milwaukee,

Charlie Why does it have to be non-profit? If the information is so valuable, why wouldn't people be willing to pay a small fee to use it? You're talking about potentially thousands of hours of work

Imperfect as it was, the index was an invalubable resource. The ideal would be a ProQuest style completely searchable index with pdf images of all the MR magazines... including content of photos. For

Speaking of auto frames and the Wabash...Studebaker's plant in South Bend on the NJI&I received frames from Budd in Ohio (Cleveland, maybe?) through the time-span of this list. The Studebaker National

Hello, One side photo in Santa Fe Freight in Color...the Series by Stephen Priest and Thomas Chenoweth on page 31 appears to be painted in mineral brown, including the roof.  I would infer the ends