Excellent ideas, Charlie. Rob Simpson somewhat, but it seems an important enough general problem hasn't gone anywhere. artists, paint chemists, or even color theorists that can jump in and make

Tim, I bookmaked the site you sent in the link as apparently this is the only Kodachrome lab left and it also offers other discontinued slide developing which will be good for future reference.

Mark your railroad calendars for Saturday, February 23 starting at 9 AM. GopherRail ( http://www.gopherrail.org ) is coming, and it's bigger and better than ever. GopherRail 2007 will

A.T. I am aware of at least one drawing that made it out. Dimensionally it is about five feet wide and eight feet long and it was sent to a man in Dallas, now deceased, sometime in the mid

Speaking of Santa Fe and tank cars, I enjoyed watching an old movie from Netflix last week -- Boom Town with Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Claudette Colbert... there are several scenes that show

Tony - I think some of the material at Hardy Street got saved, one way or another. In the early 1960's, "efficiency experts" from San Francisco (this is what the guys at Hardy Street called them,

A.T. Kott wrote: Could WELL be a Texas thing (there are others <g>). IJf only some of Hardy Street had been preserved . . . you will like Tim McLennan's forthcoming book on the T&NO, which has

A minor quibble, but for the record it was the earlier Tk-C through Tk-F class tank cars that were originally built with wood underframes and later had steel underframes applied to the original

Guys - Just a couple things... You have to add model paint thickness to the rivet size on your models. In other words, the thickness of the paint film adds to the diameter of the rivets on the car

Tony Thompson replied: It is indeed "Huck Bolt" or "Huck Fastener". In addition to replacing rivets, these were used to replace bolts on track. Fast to apply, they never need tightening, and are

My point is No mater where you get your so called standard color chip you can not match it. Let say you want to mix "River Bottom Blue" Get your chip from where ever you want. It calls for a gallon

Tony - A toad by any other name is still a toad!! A.T. Kott, P.E. repaired

A.T. Kott wrote: I think this product is the "Huck" bolt. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Dennis - Thanks for the great posts on rivet size. I went home and looked in a few of my files to see what sizes were actually on a couple of cars. Here are the results: AT&SF Tk-J tank car shell -

Strictly speaking, this may be off-topic to Steam Era Freight Cars somewhat, but it seems an important enough general problem that bears on the purpose of the list..... There is a Yahoo! Group that

Many years ago, I worked as a color formulator for Mobil Chemical. One job that passed across my lab bench was a color match for Western Maryland covered hoppers. The WM specified that we match to a

You're right Richard. The oners I used were Grandt so maybe the Tichy ones aren't too big. Ed

Good points, Tony. Does anyone have any ideas on developing a "standardized" color/paint reference that come CLOSE (subjective, of course, and that's been hashed out here & elsewhere) to the most

Jim Eckman wrote: It's "Pantone" and I think you're wrong for two reasons, Jim. First, many colors fall between Pantone numbers, or outside the gamut. It's rare that a Pantone color MATCHES

Jim- In my industry experience, Pantone Colors do not come close to most railroad colors. There are at least 900 distinct DuPont colors (at least I know of that many drift cards!!) and DuPont was only