I am looking for a good home for my collection of Mainline Modeler magazines, from 1980 to 2002. It is not a complete set. I have 123 magazines total. If you're a member of model railroad club,

It sounds like some of the "one piece body" kits apparently use "masters" which are nothing more than an assembled flat-kit body. (I thought the O-P-B F&C X26c we've seen in photos here looked like

When roofs or ends of freight cars were coated with black car cement were they then painted with black paint? Was the original application of car cement glossy? Ed

Brian, In many cases I don't know the entire span of months for the production of each group of cars in the rosters that I have compiled. The "build date" column is the first month of production

Bob:   The spacing of the pockets is the same, but the spacing of the tracks is closer on the docks serving the Michigan ore ranges.   I don't know if the Michigan ores are denser. Will have to do

Let me correct/revise the post I just made. The roster information from Ed Hawkins has a built date of July 1941, The photo of 36003 has a built date of August 1941. I am not sure which is correct.

Walter Clark wrote: Caboose kits correct? Also, what decals would you recommend? I could add one to my >growing pile of un-built kits. Walter: NH 30000-30999 were built in July 1941. They had W

market research we have determined that the actual number of modelers left is 1,235. you've stopped too.... ;>) kits in various stages of gathering dust, er, I mean various stages

Peter, I'm interested in your comment about the 1937 AAR cars. I model the far West, but we know from previous threads that box cars traveled far and wide. What year were these built, square or W

--- In STMFC@..., "mcindoefalls" <mcindoefalls@...> wrote: <snip> > I seem to have the problem which I mentioned . . . often in resin kits > the parts don't match, not even one side to the

I know this is getting off-topic, but I wanted to quickly say that a local tourist line, Wannamaker, Kempton, and Southern (http://www.kemptontrain.com/) has a decent car-length continuous running

Guys, I'm getting tired of reading all this unfocussed blather about the future of the hobby. At my age I'm increasingly inclined to quote Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind: "Frankly, my dear, I

I just spent the day sitting in the cab of a steam locomotive explaining to visitors what the various knobs and levers do. (As if I knew.) Almost everyone who came brought children. It just

Mal, In contrast to the positive things you said about steam (& early diesel) era railroading, today's trains are seen by many modern kids as a blank slate, literally. A place to express either

Hi Jon, RailShops do two Cabot schemes - an early scheme in CB-102 and a later scheme in kit CB-101 If you want the early billboard scheme, F&C offer the early Cabot Certified Spheron Decals in

Thanks, Bruce. I'm always happy to learn new vocabulary words. Quoting Bruce Smith <smithbf@...>:

Forgot to mention that if you are modeling an ALUMINUM smelter prior to the 1960's you better have GREAT ventilation in your train room as those old Soderberg smelting pots gave off some VERY nasty

India); would have entered U.S. ports, most eastern. ALUMINUMs is the solid metal product of smelting ALUMINA (Aluminum Oxide, Al2O3). ALUMINA is extracted from BAUXITE which is strip mined in the

Thanks for your trouble anyway Ed. Cheers Dave

Think they'll come with wire grabs? If they're anything like the Walthers 2893 PS-2, i wouldn't feel too excited. Wasn't this prototype in the old MDC lineup, which means Athearn still has the