My best results have been with plain old white glue. CA is a bad choice for wood. If you ever have a question, this is a good site: http://www.thistothat.com/ -- Atty Raymond G. Meyer 110 E. Main

Hi Everyone, A quick question, I am about to start on some wooden freight car kits from various manufacturers (Pacific Pike, Ambroid, Juneco, etc) and I was wondering what would be the best glue to

You'll need 1 - 1 1/2 foot extensions added to the top of the "standard" car. Al Kresse

I have Ambroid kits I built 40 years ago. I used Ambroid's cement without incident. Apply several coats of sanding sealer to the model before painting (sand between each coat) then there is no

Bill Thanks for taking a few minutes to chat at Naperville. When I got home I broke out my SAL timetables, I only have a few, and found some information that may be of use to you. Lets do this off

I've added the flyers for the new kit releases at Naperville. View them at the Recent Flyers page of my website www.sunshinekits.com <http://www.sunshinekits.com/> If you don't see them, use the

http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/932-40501 Tim O'Connor

Thanks Bob, those are useful and I have passed the info on to the earlyrail site as well. Adrian wrote: has either to Freight Internet

Testing; please ignore. -Jeff

I am looking for any photos or drawings showing the airline piping and other details on the brake end of phosphate or other hoppers in the early 1950s. This would be the area under the slope sheet

And Freight Terminals and Trains http://books.google.com/books? id=R3FBAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=freight+car&lr=&as_brr=1#PPP14,M1 Randy Hammill http://newbritainstation.com

Here's another one: Cyclopedia of Engineering http://books.google.com/books?id=AVJGAAAAMAAJ It includes Air Brakes by LV Ludy. Randy Hammill http://newbritainstation.com wrote: has either to

The on-line Internet Archive ( http://www.archive.org/index.php ) has older publications that you may read as flip books or download either as a scanned documents or PDF files. The PDF versions take a

In a message dated 10/30/2008 9:29:49 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, rpsmith@... writes: So what was the date, in Interchange, existing Wood Running Boards on Cars built before

Wood running boards were "grandfathered in" on cars originally built before Jan 1, 1944. In most cases, but not all, cars built before a change in interchange rules were allowed to run their useful

One quick self-serving ad. The Amarillo Railroad Museum just yesterday received a run of 300 PRR X29 Merchandise Service boxcars with patch panels. These are r-t-r by Red caboose. Price is

So what was the date, in Innerchange, existing Wood Running Boards on Cars built before Jan 1 1944 had to be Replaced with Steel then? Ron Smith Carman UPRR

I Love a Mystery! Big Snip ( hhmmm, i wonder which one it will be, the 6K car, the insulated car, only the Shadow knows ). > Little Snip 1940s radio show humor for the youngsters! Lindsay

Actually, they also published a correction in 1971, though this was a partial drawing showing the corrected area around the door. Don Burn

Al Westerfield wrote: "The MTS version was built from MR plans that had the doors opening in the wrong direction! So go with Overland." That drawing (which appeared in the April 1971 MR) also showed