wrote: prominently tender?? Sherman well or Santa or going to his the Richard, The fact that it was on the head end of the train, it might even have been set-out at Joliet. A disappointment to all

Jim Mischke wrote: "The Athearn 86' flat with trailers better represents a 1962-1964 era than a 1960." It's true that these cars were more widely used by 1962-1964, but this prototype first appeared

You can't get any better service than right here. Thanks I now have a copy of the instructions. Jerry Glow Contact

Jim Fellows wrote: "The Athearn TOFC cars I was refering to are Athearns newer release with a single 40' trailer on a 50' car. While the cars is their old 50' standby, it does have the correct ACF

Jim, The Athearn TOFC cars I was refering to are Athearns newer release with a single 40' trailer on a 50' car. While the cars is their old 50' standby, it does have the correct ACF hitch and other

Walthers Gold Line is releasing a flexi-van car that they say first ran in 1957. Walthers Part # 932-23923, p. 144 Walthers 2008 HO Scale Reference get's a two pack of them with trailers. The website

No, commercial styrene cements might have MEK as the basis ingredient of the cement but they add other stuff to slow down evaporation, etc. MEK is a solvent/cleaner and can be purchased in the paint

One time, I had a fruitful discussion with Ted Culotta about an adhesive application technique .... diluting Barge contact cement with methyl ethyl ketone. It would combine the effectivness of Barge

The last time I asked RC about this (6-8 weeks ago) it was on hold because of a lack of orders, Rich Orr

Prototype: By this late (1960), the norm was 35' trailers, moving to 40' trailers. The older 40' flat cars with custom tie downs were disappearing, and the 75' flat cars, then 86' flat cars with

My inability to locate pictures of NYC war emergency gondolas as I complete my Tichy model has brought up another question. The lettering diagrams I have found show the small NYC oval herald on

Hi Jerry; I just saw your message. I can help you out with this if you still need help. It may be a day or two before I can get to it, but I know I have two of those kits waiting for me to work on

Beings I bought a BLI N&W hopper at Trainfest and because the car is right behind the engine the car will be transferred to the M&StL at Nemo IL. Clark Propst

Guys; Well, the reverse can certainly be shown to be true. I was just looking at some of my slides, and there, once again, is a SP hopper, on a small branch of the PRR. These SP and ATSF hoppers

Jim; MEK is also available from Home Depot in the paint department. --- Art Richardson Clinton, MS **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes

Calm down, guys, and remember that the Santa Fe main lines were well over 2,000 miles long. Had the photo been taken in San Bernardino or Los Angeles, that might justify some excitement. However,

Mark, Here's some info that may help you out: 3) All in this series had the 5 panel Superior Door. 5) Build date for series 20500 - 21499 is 1952. 6) Yup - that's original paint. Consider also

Red Caboose at one time planned to do a TOFC version of the SP F-70-7 flat car, but I don't know what has become of that idea. Athearn's most recent single-trailer TOFC cars actually use models of

Craig Wilson wrote: "There are other references too if you do some searching for BAR photos. I found one of the later BAR trailers on a 50-foot (ex-PRR) Trailer Train flatcar. I have done models of

Although not 100% accurate, Missouri Pacific had some 50 foot flat cars (not 53'6") with 13 stake pockets, some of which were converted for TOFC service and lasted into the 1970's. If you remove