Jeff Aley wrote: Um, let's not get into vices on this list. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Jeff, I'm going to jump in here and mention that for all of the holes I drill in resin , I use a Dremel Mini-Mite. A battery powered moto-tool. If you're careful and use the right feed rate and speed

Hi List Members, A while back, I inquired about obtaining back issues of mainline Modeler magazine. I got lots of good suggestions, and even an offer for a photocopy if I were unsuccessful in my

Clark, Do you do your drilling w/ a pin vice, or do you have some other technique to quickly drill those 36 holes? Regards, -Jeff ________________________________ Sent: Tuesday,

Matt, the Texas Natural Gas Corporation did have its headquarters in Tulsa and apparently had no connection with the Texas Co. In 1953 they owned and operated 50 11,000 gal. LPG cars, AAR class

The Kadee No.4 used a coil spring in conjunction with a lug cast on each side of the coupler shank for centering, the same as the 711 "Old Time" coupler uses a coil spring in conjunction with two

Steve, All that proves is that STANDARD Kadees in STANDARD width boxes will work on this radius, SO LONG AS all the equipment has about the same striker to kingpin dimension, which Tim's equipment

Denny Anspach wrote Didn't one of the really old Kadee couplers use this technique -- a #4 perhaps? I'm pretty sure one of them used a coil centering spring... Tim O'

Jon Cagle's tank cars do not use the Kadee "whisker" couplers. They use a standard #78 centered by a coil spring aligned with the shank that is inset into a notch in the back end of the shank

Tim Warris' Bronx Terminal layout (an HO model of the railroad of the same name) uses Kadee couplers AND approximate 12" radius around the freight shed-- http://www.bronx-terminal.com/?p=1643 Steve

Marty and list; Marty, you're absolutely right on that, and in fact as I went out yesterday evening I was thinking just that - "You can't do that..." Oh well, lesson learned, no harm, no foul...

Hi Clark,   It's still the only way to get one of these cars without scratchbuilding, so don't toss it out. The model represents almost 4700 IC cars running in 1950 (my baseline year) so for

Clark: It seems to me that the MDC/Athearn fifty foot SS cars have a similiar but longer roof. That'd be doing it the hard way though. Lots of sawing and swearing involved. Stephan Parachuk Toronto

I'd like to build a CGW 23 SS car with the radial roof (RP Cyc 18) based on the F&C BM model with DW ends. Anybody know if an existing model has that roof? Clark Propst

made is the Sunshine car; the F&C car, the next closest and representative of the single largest group of late steam era IC SS cars, is too narrow by 6 or 8 inches. Great... Great! I plan on building

I misread Gene's original post. I thought he already had Tichy kits to build. He was just referring to them as available SS cars. I like the character of SS cars and have way too many on the

Hi Tim, Tim O'Connor wrote: Quite true, but considering which group we're talking on, I had to mention it as an inaccuracy. And they ARE easy to fix, as are most of the "problems" with using this

Gentlemen, Thanks for the response. Mike Aufderheide came through immediately with drawings, and I'm sure I have that issue of MR in case I need back up. John John Golden Bloomington,

David Seems like the math is pretty straightforward -- what you need is to plug in a formula into a spreadsheet with the variables you have listed, to calculate the maximum sideways deflection of the

Hi Guys, Can anyone tell me if the "Texas Natural Gasoline Corporation" was the same company as the Texas Company i.e Texaco? Atlas have a 11,000 Tank Car for this road name, lettered as from Tulsa,