After seeing Jerry's nice MP compact-body caboose, I posted a photo of one of my Santa Fe way cars with the Laserkit screens. It's in the Files section of the STMFC site on Yahoo, in a folder called

A friend is finishing his Westerfield 11500-series HO scale model of a Santa Fe Sk.L stock car and isn't certain about the car's interior color. Were these perhaps whitewashed, or were they simply

Al, any info on Southern 292000-292549 ? Tim O'Connor

The Southern's cars, series 286000-286999 (per ORER), differed from other 41ft War Emergency gons in having six drop doors (class GA). Other owners were Texas & New Orleans, ACL, Midland Valley,

Any pics of it from the event or otherwise? I did not see it on <http://www.pbase.com/superfleet93/oklahoma_city_train_show_2008> which covered a lot that was there. Jerry Glow them were the

Schuyler, The quote is exactly as it is on the page. I assumed "No." meant "north". It seem obvious to me, so I didn't comment. Kind regards, Garth G. Groff Schuyler Larrabee wrote:

The Sunshine Region Western Division recently had a hands on clinic building a Bar Mills (entry level) laser cut kit that was a success. Not necessarily a STMFC topic but just to show it can be

Tim, Out of curiosity I pulled out a random Pullman-Standard bill of material for a series of box cars to see what it specified for interior decking and running boards. This happens to apply to two

fame in Iowa (and no they are not Amish) left their barns and long whether it was painted or not. Painting buildings was the colony. Someplace I was reading (and no, I'm not searching for the

Mike, Sorry, I don't have roster information on these cars, but there was an article in January 92 of Mainline Modeler about these cars. I think there may have been some roster info in the

Garth, PHP is railroad talk for "Packing House Products" and could mean anything coming out of a packing house, which we more commonly think of as a slaughter house. The "packing" term comes from

A little off topic, but the "True Inspirationalists" of Amana Colony fame in Iowa (and no they are not Amish) left their barns and other out buildings unpainted. They found the wood lasted just as

Sorry, forgot to mention I also have available a nice scratchbuilt C&O Thurmond, WV depot based on plans that appeared in the April 1987 issue of Mainline

I have a variety of items currently listed on eBay that may be of interest (note: you can easily navigate items listed from the store category menu on the left-hand

Tim, It depends on the switching district agreements. It is very possible that this was the case. Greg Martin

Group, Shake N Take has been a success in Cocoa Beach and now kind of a focus for the event. So to try to duplicate it at another events would require me retiring and lots of travel. Neither of which

Yes, and therefore by definition, this violates the definition of reciprocal switching as we have been talking about. It sounds to me like Erie received trackage rights, and gave trackage rights in

I took some clear styrene .005"-.010" sheet, and scratched the face of it once in a straight line with 220- or 400-grit sandpaper. I scratched it again at a right angle from the previous

wrote: I make no mistakes. Sometimes, however, I achieve novel results. SGL