And why do I have this overwhelming urge to model it? Built by AC&F, rebuilt by C&EI with Dreadnaught ends, steel sheathing replacing the original wood, and Wind drop door latches. C&EI had a

While most of us have been cut by catching sharp things tht are falling toward our laps, only the truly foolish among us have caught a falling, plugged in soldering iron. Mother nature has decreed, in

Ahem, for those of us whose mail reader wraps lines, e.g., what Mozilla presented to me is below, there is http://www.tinyurl.com It will convert horrendously long URLs such as the one below into a

Doug Harding wrote: Jeweler's workbenches have a pull-out tray for just that purpose - a frame with canvas stitched to it on the underside, the frame curved at the leading edge to fit against your

Thanks for the help, guys. My interest in older railroading kept me from thinking about these. CJ Riley

Hi CJ, One thing that can polish wheel rims is a self-guarding frog. As you probably know, these have a raised flange on the outside of the wing rails that the rim of the wheel rubs against. Another

I meant to add this to Richard Hendrickson's great description of wheel weathering, that during the steam era?the rims of the wheels would often shine due to the rubbing of the hump yard retarders.?

I thought of that, but how common were they back then? CJ Riley

A guess of course, but possibly from running through self-guiding frogs. Charlie

Thanks, good thought. Since my interests predate most hump yards, that never occurred to me. CJ

Retarders in hump yards. Brian Ehni

Group, While studying truck weathering in several color photos, I realized for the first time, the wheel rims (as different from the treads) were also polished as if the were rubbing on something. I

I expect the length of the boat, looks to be over 80 feet, required a special order for a car of proper length and load limit for the job. Considering the car is bracketed by CN cars and from CN

Carl Grimmer wrote: I've always noticed that the CA is attracted to fingers mostly when two of them are in close proximity. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906

January was when I had my last tool "adventure." I impaled my bare foot on a toothpick (used for applying adhesives)that had some unknown time before fallen on the rug. The toothpick, one of those

Instead of an apron to wear, I have stapled a piece of fabric along the edge of the workbench. When I sit down, I pull up the fabric and lay it across my lap. Parks roll off the bench into my lap,

Clark, I was a Meat Cutter (Butcher) for 14 years before I decided to make a living doing something fun. It didn't take long to learn not to try and catch a falling knife. It was much easier (and

Guys; And who produced this horrendous gon:

Least we not forget some of the glues that we use, such as the CAs, that are immediately attracted to your finger just before you scratch the itching eyebrow.   Carl

Which is also remarkably similar in colour to the resins used by Westerfield, Sunshine and Speedwitch. I remain convinced that there is at least an entire boxcar kit down there somewhere. I tried the