The neat photo with "atmosphere". It almost appears that no two reefers have the same height. If one is modeling this period this what ones model trains need to look like. Bob Witt

Mark, as always with the P2K kits, the prototypes were well researched before the models were produced. I'll send you a prototype photo off-list. Richard Hendrickson

Just received one of these kits and wondering how correct they are. Car number 8505. Mark Morgan

Brian you and Dennis were so nice to share the photos. Really interesting and wish something similar was available for me! Mark Morgan

I have got to say that this has been one of the most interesting reads for me yet. It is very nice to see what everyone is working on and has given me a thought about what to do next, when I get

Folks, Jerry's msg is SPAM, and appears to be going out to his entire inbox. It is very unlikely that he is the Spammer; it is more likely that his computer has been hijacked.

This brass mold: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STMFC/photos/album/99799505/pic/115748359/view?picmode=large&mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=1&dir=asc> Is very reminiscent of some of the early Grandt

Dear Dennis & Brian: Than you so much for the time you have taken to take the picture and write the explanations of what we are looking at. I for one have a great appreciation now for the challenges

Thank you Brian and Dennis for the wonderful photos and information on plastic injection molding! Truly amazing technology that we all take for granted! A.T. Kott

Mark, Actually, you DID upload the photos, but they had not been approved by a moderator. Yahoo!Groups has a bug in which: 1) You receive a mysterious error msg when uploading

Bellville Ohio has a gravel pit that has closed. The asphalt plant is close to State Route 97 East. I stopped today and took some photos of four tanks which appear to be tank cars. Tried to post the

Thank you very much, Brian, That's interesting stuff. I've been able to visit a few injection-molding shops, and I always find the ingenuity of the toolmakers impressive. So long, Andy

More than the capacity of out shipping scale, that's for sure :-) If it were solid steel, it calculates out to 428 pounds, but the ejector box is hollow, so someplace around 350 - 375. You'll note

I've posted some photos in a folder called "Tahoe Model Works" of some tooling for making plastic parts. Listed below are descriptions: photo 1: These are a pair of Cavity Inserts for one of Tahoe

Dennis, Thanks for these great photos! The hopper mold is 12" x 14" x 9", according to your caption. That's a big hunk of steel for such a small car! How much does a mold like that

Dennis, thank you for sharing these photos. Amazing the size and what you make for the consumer. We are currently down at work for maintenance, AK Steel/Mansfield(OH). Some of the equipment would

List, As promised, I've posted some pix of Accurail's injection molds. Molds are hard to photograph in the press; the press usually doesn't open enough to really see the mold cavity, so I dragged a

What is totally interesting in the many parts of this thread is to once again be made aware of the intensely catholic interests that make up this intelligent group, the nature of which IMHO also form

mopacfirst wrote: I understand where you're coming from Ron, currently, my "workbench" is the coffee table in the living room. On it are: 2 Gould/Tichy 120T wreck cranes, 2 Bowser F30s, 2 F&C FM

Several projects are closing in on final touches before moving to the paint shop. Three Tichy USRA SS box cars are complete except for Carmer uncoupling levers. Other deviations from the instructions