Hi All, My first post, hope all goes well. In a recent B&MRRHS news letter article,Dwight Smith mentions that new autos were shipped from Tarrytown, NY to No. New England in NYC automobile cars. Any

You're right Mike, my bad. I hadn't looked at one in quite a while, so I didn't remember they were already done that way. Tim O'

Tim O'Connor writes: Tim, Are we talking about the same car? I wrote an article [ blush ] in Ted Culotta's Railroad Prototype Modeling, Vol One...A Tale of Two Hoppers...in which I offered a "fix"

:-) Bruce, I'm not sure that was the car... could be. It was painted in Shadow Keystone.

All, As has been my custom for the past several years, I will have an open house of my model railroad following the Timonium, MD show on Saturday, February 6, 2010 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. The HO

Atlas had a bunch of their "rebuilt" or "1932" box cars painted in a number of bogus paint schemes, including PRR. It's just so goofy I barely pay any attention to Atlas anymore... Um Tim, PRR did

Does anyone have an email address for Keith Retterer that they could share with me, off-list, if appropriate. Thanks, Steve Hile

but by Bethlehem Car Works.< I know that but these are molds from the 50s and it's really hard to change to .088 wheelsets. The level of detail, while great for their time, is a little downlevel

The most exciting STMFC item I saw at Springfield was a new Kadee truck, in their new engineering plastic: A 70 ton, Barber S-2A truck. Yowsuh! I can think of a few dozen cars of mine that can use

The Ribside models all suffer from a poorly done roof. So this car has a correct roof i.e. it includes actual seam caps. However Ribside offers far more variations of the cars, and I think the EXR

Strangely enough, many of these Red Ball trucks are still being produced but by Bethlehem Car Works. http://www.bethlehemcarworks.com <http://www.bethlehemcarworks.com> Tom E. Thompson made.

There is an article in the 08Feb1960 issue of Railway Age concerning Mechanical Refrigerator Cars, and how they are managing to increase traffic. While the article is beyond the cutoff for this list,

At the Amherst show, Exactrail is showing a long ribbed 40' Milwaukee box. I do wonder how it will compare to Rib Side Car's various products. Ed Edward Sutorik

Matt, I found the following post from the late Sam McCall (aka HOSAM) in my files. I cannot attest to its accuracy but knowing his reputation, I would give it serious weight. I will leave it to

I have a PFE that I built when the Tichy kits first came out. Tony also did an article in RMC and I just looked and one of the cars has Simplex high speed timken (Red Ball) on it. If Tony is around

Bruce Smith wrote: I've been at the Bay Area LD/OP SIGs meeting all day. Here's my comments. One: I have a good print of the photo on page 128 of the PFE book, and it is NOT an enameled

In case TMW is paying some attention to this, I’m interested in some of these trucks. SGL E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (7.0.0.514) Database version:

TBO'C I always figured that it was a spacer to use when the bottom of the end sill was inconveniently too high and the other part needed to be blocked down to the right height. If you look at the

Jon,          There might more of a market than you think. The /Taylor coil spring is a caboose truck for various roads. Symington and Simplex haven't been readily available in some time. I

I just ran across some Red Ball sheets I have. In case TMW has a what will I do next moment I thought I'd throw out some names that Red Ball made. I do admit that if made they may not sell more than