Ron, can you post any photos of this? Long time no see! Thanks! -- Brian Ehni PC Technician Information Technology P.O. Box 141000   Nashville, Tennessee 37214 tel:  615.902.1365

One other item of note (I don't have the Culotta article, so I can only guess he has a sophisticated method of what I'm about to describe) is that the IM car sits roughly 6" too high because the

I purchased the index from Data Train of Texas also and still use it today. In searching for information, I always got more results using the Datatrain Index but mine only went to 1994. It covered

Shame on Atlas! Since the second run of these 11,000 gal. cars Atlas has done a very decent job of posting the date a particular style of paint and lettering began to be used by each shipper the

At the request of a customer and with supplied builder photos, I've made a new decal set for the Atlas LPG tankcar prototype which was built in 1947 putting it in the "wheelhouse" of this group.

There is at least one Kalmbach employee who frequents this list. How about a response on this subject? Also did you guys notice how easy it is to TRIM your responses so a person doesn't have to

Jim, There are two "B" end photos of composite BX-58's on page 106 of John C. Dobyne III's Santa Fe Boxcars 1869-1953, a Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society publication. One car is

I wrote: Totally bogus AFAIK. Tony Thompson Sent from my iPod Probably spoke too soon, not having refs at hand. Should have said something more like, "I can't say I recognize ANY of them as

Totally bogus AFAIK. Tony Thompson Sent from my iPod

Yeah, but I'm not sitting at my desk, I'm reading mail occasionally on my iPod while at the NMRA convention in Milwaukee. Tony Sent from my iPod

Feb 2009 RMC contained an Essential Freight Car article by Ted Colutta on UP ACR cars. Not included in his article is the approach I'm taking of putting Archer ACR rivets on an Intermountain

Mark, there are several problems with this idea, apart from the inherent crudeness and inaccuracy of the Athearn model (doors, lower door slides, running boards, molded-on ladders and grabs, etc.,

Schuyler asks The BMX/Barrett scheme is from November 1940 -- but the prototype car was somewhat different, being an earlier design (longer with a smaller diameter it appears from the builder

Mark, It basically comes down to personal choice and what's acceptable to you with the compromises and/or modifications required to be made. The UP B-50-33s had alternating center rivets on each

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