While these observations are on target for the most part from today's perspective, unfortunately when the trend was set modelers, the vast majority of them, did not care all that much for closer

How about resin manufacturers making perfect copies of inaccurate brass imports? Darren Plants Cedar Rapids, Iowa No better example than the old blue-box Athearn F units, with their too-flat

Richard Hendrickson wrote: No better example than the old blue-box Athearn F units, with their too-flat roof contour and entirely wrong windshield opening shape: copied with amazing fidelity by

Exactly, Claus, and unfortunately a lot of that went on twenty or more years ago. For example, a number of more or less clumsy and inaccurate Athearn HO scale models (and, worse, early Varney

Schuyler,  Sorry for misspelling your name in the first reply. Steve Stull

Schuler, and Clark; What you have experienced is typical when accessing the American Memory Site. I'm not sure of the intricacies of how their database works, but a called image appears to load to a

Hi Ben and Richard, Thanx to both of you for the info. Ben wrote: Amazing that we have the SAME bogus model in HO and N. Maybe this is one of those cases of manufacturers "making models of

Any idea how long the paint scheme was in the field? Davo in Orlando 2-rai O-scale

Hi Jack, I would be interested in a picture of this part. It's been a little maddening, not being able to visually evaluate different parts. I can be reached at mark_heiden@...

Claus Schlund ((HGM)) wrote: "In N scale, we have had an 8-panel 42-foot gon available since the earliest days. It has been made by several manufacturers, and has been available in both wood-floor and

Hopeless, I'm afraid. Basically toy train stuff, a generic design with clumsy detailing. I've never seen a photo of a prototype that was even remotely close. Richard Hendrickson

Tim, are the DA versions available in brass, or only plastic? And Denny, the same query about PSC's? SGL I like the closer to scale Detail Associates retainer valves, and they come pre-cored for

I like the closer to scale Detail Associates retainer valves, and they come pre-cored for .008 (or smaller) wire. The mold includes the handle but it doesn't always fill, so it helps to have a

Bob McCarthy posted this to the S-scale yahoo group: I am having difficulty finding information on these O-16 box cars. In a '31 ORER, I can see series 47000-50699, a 40' box car that appears to

Worked for me -- this time.  Has to click the first item on a list. Al Kresse

The most detailed and most easily-handled HO retainer valves are those sold by PSC. They have a mounting lug, and are easily drilled through for the piping. Mont Switzer put me on to these some

Clark, go here: <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/panoramic_photo/panquery.html> In the "Enter search terms" box, enter "Corning NY New York Central" without quotes It should be the first

Mark... Precision Scale also has a retainer valve and Caboose Hobbies lists them on-line but says "Call" which means that they aren't in stock but they can add them to their next PSC order. (That is

I would be interested in the HO version of C&WC, maybe both. Riley KInney

what's the URL... when I cut-and-paste SGL's link, it returns a "Temporary file open error. Display failed." error. I even took the < and > off the link and it still didn't work... Clark