I would prefer to leave the original hole intact for future re-sale concerns.   Jason

I picked up 700 2/56 screws from a place called fastenal for $10.00. I think that someone "screwed up" on the price!!  I build Sunshine kits at a high rate and go through them. Dennis

Jason, go to www.mcmaster.com I wrote this on another list: I didn't spend all that much money, maybe $25-30. I may have spent a little more than that (the above was written to make a point to

Jason, I use 2-56 screws after drilling and tapping out the old hole. Mark Morgan

http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=63aa8efb7477cb32_large Here is the guy close-up... no oil can... Just a BIG handle to throw the switch. -------------------- Richard Brennan - San Leandro

Probably opened by another employee at the top of the hump. Labor was not in short supply here . . And closed by the car knockers when the train was ready to go. SGL

I have a large collection of brass freight cars and I want to replace their brass trucks with more relable plastic trucks for operations. What do you guys do for a source of screws? I don't think

I think you may have something there. Looking south. Is that the PFE ice dock to the right? Rob Simpson yard in LA?

Andy Carlson wrote: Absolutely right. That's Elysian Park in the distance, and PFE's massive ice house at far right. Don Worthy wrote: I'd sure like to see that clip. How does he open

Does anyone beside me think it looks a wee bit like the (railroad) west end of Bayshore? -- "I think we are pole vaulting over mouse manure here" Stolen from a private mailing list

How far off would I be if I thought that this scene was SP's Taylor yard in LA? -Andy Carlson Ojai CA

When magnified you can see that the worker on the right is wearing what appears to be a gauze mask over his nose and mouth and judging from the black around his mouth he has been exposed to some

The guy in the chair is lubing journals. He uses a squirt gun and shoots oil in the journal box as it goes by. I saw them doing this in a short film clip. Don Worthy

Black with white Roman lettering - open top cars didn't get brown paint until about 1957 and even then it took many years to repaint everything Aidrian

Double slip switches in a steam-era freight yard lead. Very cool. Notice the switchtender/yardman in the chair by the DS switch. That must have been a high-seniority job. Rob Simpson Jack

Here is a shorter url: http://tinyurl.com/a556nf Jack Burgess www.yosemitevalleyrr.com

Anotehr fine iamge from the Life Magazine

As has been stated, the RI USRA double sheathed boxcars (Westerfield and Accurail models) were numbered 155000 - 157499 (2500 cars.) Beginning in the late 30's, 800 of these cars were rebuilt into

Please forgive the slightly off-topic touch, but I remember my grandfather receiving a ton of anthracite from Hudson Coal (the former subsidiary of the Delaware & Hudson Company, which also ran a