Which TMW trucks would be good for this car. I have a lot of .088 wheels in stock but this car takes something like .095 axels or similar. Anyway it would be good to put TMW on anyway. Jon

Microscale 87-1013 Maintenance of Way Equipment - Railroad Roman 1950 + Jeff White Alma, IL pennsylvania1954 wrote:

Yesterday at my local used book store I picked up a copy of a 1931 book called "General American Tank Car Journeys: Where Industrial Liquids Come From and Where They Go."? It's a well-illustrated book

I want to thank Mike Brock and Jeff Aley for all their hard work that made the meeting a success plus all the other volunteers. Jeff went to each room to make sure the software and connection spirits

A very mundane question: can anyone point me toward an HO decal set that has the slogan "Do Not Hump" in white letters? Thanks for the help! Steve Hoxie Pensacola FL

Good write up.  Any pictures of the event?   Jason Sanford

Prototype Rails 2009, in Cocoa Beach, FL, was a good meeting. I am the Clinic Chairman, and here are my biased comments. As usual, it was a lot of work and a lot of fun. Attendance was pretty good;

My wife is a transit planner, and 15 years ago she worked on the Milwaukee light rail system (never built - but when she transferred to that project is when we met, so I guess every dark cloud has a

Mark My apologies. I edited my original reply and put things back to front. I should have said "With the exception of 18700-19399 (which were built with truck type 81)". 18400-699 were built with

Hi Rupert, Thanks for the information. What sort of trucks are the type 81? I've got a fairly clear shot of CBQ 18471, and it has trucks that look very much like an ASF A-3 ride control. Does the

different I picked up a boxed set of 20 of the Trix 40' UP boxcars when "the price was right". There are four different basic schemes including the early white and yellow "Road of the

Mark To broaden your target for photos, other cars in class XM-32C were 18700-19399 (built 1951), C&S 1250-1499 (built 1950-1) and FW&D 9001-9250 (built 1951). With the exception 18400-699 (which

Mark A photo of CB&Q 18675 shows AJAX handbrake and APEX (grid style) running board and brake step. Bracket-style grab irons. Also, no poling pockets. The trucks are in shadow and can't be

Hello everyone, I'm gathering information on some Burlington boxcars, series CBQ 18400- 18699 (class XM-32c), for a possible future project, and I have a few questions about these cars. Could anyone

Thanks Tom, I couldn't manage Cocoa this year either - maybe next. In any event, those temperatures don't seem to hard to manage. But I take your point - I'll wait for the RMC article to be

Are these O-scale or H0? Al Kresse

Dave, Couldn't find it. Can you please give me  link? Regards, Arnold van Heyst Netherlands. http://www.flickr.com/photos/heyst/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Rob Kirkham asked: It was only warm - maybe 80 to 85 F. Ted's article is supposed to be in the February RMC which should be showing up any day. I didn't do Cocoa Beach this year so can't ask Ted if he

Tom, that's interesting as I have some of these cars to work on too. I wonder about what temperature your ultrasonic cleaner raises the temperature of the cleaning fluid to? I don't have one, but