Brian   I have had a North Coast Hobbies spray booth for 6 or 7 years and have been very pleased with it. It uses disposable furnace filters you can pick up the local Lowe's, Ace etc. It is also

Or call direct at (570) 224-4989 , they are great to deal with. They will give you the Poly Bag price and specials by Phone, if you ask, and they can take credit cards by Phone too. I was told last

2008 ST. LOUIS RAILROAD PROTOTYPE MODELER’S MEET The 2008 St. Louis RPM Meet will be held on Friday, 15 August and Saturday, 16 August 2008 at the Gateway Convention Center, One Gateway Center,

Alan; been left in the car when it was unloaded, so presumably it would be a common sight to see such debris in the bottom of an empty gondola?? Absolutely, and in cases where the blocking was

Yes they do.  Just send a LSSAE to them and they will send a flyer with a coupon for their box kits and a list of bagged kit specials. Joe Horter Charleston, WV

We were referring to commercial shipments [size not weight] on railroad flat car(s) moved on or before Sept 1958. Al Kresse

Many thanks Elden, just the sort of info I was after. The pics I've been able to find/see of gons laden with crates tend to be consist pics or yard-wide shots

Frank Valoczy writes: "2 questions back: 1, does that 'biggest' have to have been something in the US? 2, does a railway gun count?" "If the answers are NO and YES respectively... maybe

Frank Voloczy asked: http://galerija.railserbia.net/details.php?image_id=793 <<snip>> "...I'm wondering if anyone knows of a model that could be used to model these cars?" Bruce Smith replied: "There

Frank, We have talked about these tank cars a number of times here on this list. This is, as you note, a US built tank car. Most likely built for use in WWII. It is s SINGLE compartment tank

Alan; They were commonly placed on crosswise 4 by 6's (or similar) so one could get cables or chains under the load, and then blocked with stacks of wood blocks nailed together in as high a stack

Hmmm... strictly speaking, it's not a single *load* though. When broken down into it's constituent parts, it required something like 5 or 6 separate trains to move Dora from place to place (plus a

Sorry Guys, This was to be off list and I forgot to put Brian's email address in the address line. Regards, Tom Olsen Newark, Delaware, 19711-7479

Hi Brian, Please send me a copy of the flyer for the new Buckeye truck so that I can make a decision as to whether I need it and if so how many. Best Regards, Tom Olsen 7 Boundary Road, West

Hopefully this is enough within the scope of this list to be okay... it *is* steam era, and it *is* railway, and it *is* American... made. http://galerija.railserbia.net/details.php?image_id=793 On

2 questions back: 1, does that 'biggest' have to have been something in the US? 2, does a railway gun count? If the answers are NO and YES respectively... maybe

In the far distant past ( about 1953, 54) I worked a couple of summers in a packing house (pears, not citrus) and helped unload some carloads of box shook. The box cars were loaded to the top of the

Folks, This is a loaded question. It is is relation to a C&O Chessie NEWS article from May 30, 1958. It deals with a very large atomic reactor movement via river barge up the Tennessee River to the

Brian, I just replaced my worn out Badger unit from many years ago with a Paasche unit. http://www.paascheairbrush.com/booths_hssb.html I'm very pleased with the results. I've been using it now for

Armand, I don't know why, but I'm pretty computer ignorant. If you give me a mailing address, I'll snail-mail it to you. Brian Tahoe Model Works