Brian: I didn't see your issues but eBay has a lot of back issues of Mainline available. Stephan Parachuk Toronto

Michael; What would one use the HO IC hopper decals on? What would we use for a TH&B gon? Sorry about the N-scale decals, but those projects are hard. There just don't seem to be as many N-scalers

Thought I would use this 5-part article series in Mainline Modeler magazine as a car-building tutorial by producing this car with a CNC mill. I have the latter three articles but not the first two

Naperville is only 5 months away. That's where I bought my kit from Ron! Tim O'Connor Anything good is worth waiting for. From the pix that

I have photos of cars dated 4/49 without and 8/49 with - actually several of the latter, which suggests that the photographers had not seen cars with the red banners before that date. I have a

Re: "..likeability bias..." Personally, while I like all freight cars, I am biased toward those of the anthracite roads, so that's what well more than half the cars are on my previously LV based, now

Hello Bob, Thanks for the compliment about the article. I am from Canada, but live in Minnesota now. Proof that you can't take the Canada out of the Canadian though, Eh! I think that the IC decals

I bought some Rocket Express cars last year.  Ron answered all emails I sent him, but not promptly, usually about a month or more passed before I received an answer.  The kits I bought took about

That would be no worse than the seven months I waited for my most recent Sunshine product. Brian Ehni

Claus,           Anything good is worth waiting for. From the pix that Jerry posted of his 40' car, I'm impressed enough to order a couple myself. If it takes 6 months for them to get to

Hi, I've found you need to have a lot pf patience when dealing with Rocket Express. He will eventually reply, but it may take a longer time than you expect. I bought some of his N scale resin kits,

Ron was at the NE Proto Meet last weekend. I'll see if I can find an email address for him. Dave Owens -- 2009 New England/Northeast Prototype Modelers Meet May 29-30, 2009, Collinsville,

Sorry my response came out harsh. It wasn't meant to be. I've seen varried problems with contacting Ron. I don't know if he travels or what so keep trying - it's worth it. I have both of his boxcar

---------------------------------------------------- I think Elden momentarily forgot the 1960 cut-off date of this list when referring to C&O influence on B&O's car fleet. That started (just) a few

I think Ron was at Naperville last fall. At least I thought I talked to him. The URL you give comes up and gives ron@... under contacts. If your bud can't figure that out he sure ain't

Reminds me of a prototype photo in a Ted Culotta article on modelling CPR "Fowler" cars in RMC. The photo was of CP 123456. Sometimes, there are other reasons. Photogs seemed to take photos of the

Jim; To follow up, on "Simple, grubby, common, random, no apparent purpose, bad boys..... ", probably a pretty good description, but not 100% grubby, in fact. If you look through color yard shots,

I received the email below. Can anyone help to how to contact the Rocket Express guy? "I've been trying to contact a resin kit manufacturer (CRIP boxcars and a caboose) named Rocket Express for some

Initially I used the random number generator in Excel and assigned a unique number to each car.?? Using the built-in parameters and playing with the numbers, I was eventually able to make it work.?

Tom,          Take what you know from the photos; 2 billboard & 4 standard.  The 1/3 amount sounds viable to work from to build the model. I have seen very few of the billboard scheme in