Try as I might to master Polly Scale paint,I turn to the collective intelligence of this list for advise.A local freight car guru tells me that Polly Scale is very forgiving.I have even resorted to

C&O ACF  welded 70-ton hops covered in MM and C&O History mags. Al K resse

Dave Why do people think that a model at an AAR alt std hopper correct for C&O, ERIE, NP, and others would sell only 5,000 cars??? Let me tell you something -- 15 yrs or so ago a small manufacturer

Gentlemen, The 2011 Savannah Prototype Modeler's Meet will be held on Friday,March 25th and Saturday, March 26th at the Port Wentworth, Ga, recreation center, located at 102 Turnberry Street. The

Joe, here's a short list of online references to RMJ. Don't you wish the "magazine index" had Mainline Modeler etc like this? :-) 50' box

Jerry,       What boxcar prototype does this decal fit? Thanks, Bob

I was talking to some of the manufacturers at Prototype Rails, and it sounds like the tooling costs for multi-part injection molds to make single piece styrene car bodies are probably too expensive

Actually 26 years minus a few months. I also have every published issue carefully boxed and anything of possible interest to me indexed. I also have MR from back in the '40s stored and indexed, but

I have every issue of MM from the charter issue to the last. I can't think of a single other publication I can say that about - of any subject, other than some very short-lived ones. MM existed for

________________________________ To: STMFC@... Sent: Sun, January 23, 2011 2:48:15 AM Subject: Re: [STMFC] Rationalizing periodicals, cont'd.   Denny With Model Railroader, this is easy

Yes, the URL does not work. Apparently it takes you to the results of a search which expires. However you can get to the photo: 1) Copy the photo ID to your clipboard: CVA 447-1884 2)

Denny With Model Railroader, this is easy -- save ALL of the prototype modeling articles. This will be at most one, sometimes two articles, per issue. :-) With Mainline Modeler, just save the

Unfortunately the URL's do not work. Dayna & Randy Williamson [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Group, The City of Vancouver Archives has two photographs of WIF box cars taken by Walter Edwin Frost. One, as previously reported by Barry Bennett, is WIF 106 photographed December 27, 1952 and is

Just to add to the confusion, the terms Standard and Alternate Standard are being used differently than how the AAR used them. The principal difference between Standard and Alternate Standard as far

Denny, Crescent Lines is the fictional railroad of the Crescent City Model Railroad club. The line runs from N.O. to K.C. Rich Orr

I believe it is a Lone Star Region special run car for the club in New Orleans. Prototype N Scale Models (TM) by George Hollwedel PO Box 143566 Austin, TX 78714-3566 512-579-0539 512-796-6883

I pretty much have every railroad-oriented book, magazine, periodical, annual that I've ever acquired. Including quite a few from before I was born. I find it pretty fascinating to look at the ads

While rooting around for my WIF car, I uncovered a mysterious unbuilt Athearn blue box kit containing an apparent custom-decorated steel 40' reefer with silver ends/roof, dark olive or PG sides with

denny anspach wrote: Well said. Whenever I research a topic, including the use of the trains.com index, I often find that I actually DO need some issue I haven't looked at for years. I rarely