Mike Schleigh, an ERIE modeler at Springfield today, showed me how he has made a new brass bolster for a pair of Bethlehem Red Ball caboose trucks, which replaces the white metal bolster, and

Group, Just want to say thanks SO VERY MUCH to those that took the time and effort to respond to my question about the SAL slogan. Much appreciated!! Matt Forsyth Modeling the D&H Penn

Doug You can join the BBFCL list if you want to ask about post-1960 to 1980's freight cars...

Brian Oh sorry I forgot to mention, solid bearing. I would not have been nearly as excited over a roller bearing truck. No I can't recall exactly what the spring package looked like. Of course

I have the PM revenue freight cars book, however, I would like to find better views of the ends, in which the shape of the inverse 'ribs' tapers is visible more clearly. Frank Valoczy Vancouver, BC

Frozen? Down here in sunny Florida? As a matter of fact...yes, it was. I can recall wearing 3 shirts and a heavy coat...no heat in the lobby or hall ways at the Hilton. Usually, we are calling the

Tim, Roller bearing or solid bearing? And do you remember the spring arrangement? Brian Leppert Tahoe Model Works Carson City, NV

Doug wrote: I've been in Brock's Jail, don't want to ever experience that frozen horror again. Frozen Horror? wasn't that the last prototype rails? Brian Carlson, (who will no doubt be visiting

Warning, this may be off topic, ie too modern for this list. A friend is seeking information about a series of Gons, ie when were they built, owned by the Crandic, the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City

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.