Lawrence - You can probably order a photocopy of the article from the NMRA's Kalmbach Library - http://library.nmra.org/ I believe that this is the article which you are seeking: A Change of

I have added more roster information to my Chateau Martin wine car web page at http://www.geocities.com/jim_lancaster.geo/chatmart/cmwx_roster_1.html The data was extracted from ORERs and now covers

John, Good question. I have no answer but offer the following until the real experts check in. Last summer I created a number of paint chips using mixtures of Floquil colors and took them to

Gentlemen, My apologies for the re-attack on this issue but I've searched the archives for information and did not find a clear answer. How close is the yellow on the new Intermountain "FGE" reefer

On the YV, gasoline in 55-gallon drums was shipped in YV stock cars to small operations along the line (such as quarries) which did not need and/or couldn't handle larger shipments of

wrote: Also freshly creosoted ties. Bill Williams Bush, LA

Ed Mines asked: No, I'm saying this is Wayne Long's formula for calculating head diameter and distance above the surface if you know the rivet's body diameter. He used 1" as an example, feel free to

I am of the opinion that the Branchline Trains line of riveted boxcars pleases me greatly. I have not measured them, but their rivets are smaller than my NWSL produced rivets with their 0.010" rivet

Are you saying that shaft of rivets holding the sheet metal skin of a box car to the frame is 1 inch?

I have no analysis to back it up, but I have always thought that in the smaller scales (HO and smaller) texture (including rivets) might need to be a little oversized since light and atmosphere don't

Ed Mines asked: Here's a formula from Wayne Long: Tom Madden

Maybe those rivets are "scale". how big is a rivet head? 3/4 inch? That's .009 inches (9 mils). What's the height? 1/3 the diameter? That's .003 inch. I would be surprised if rivets are only

Gene 7/1000th's or about 1/150th of an inch is quite small, and not easy to measure on a flat car side, but it is HIGHLY visible to the human eye and in fact you can easily perceive a difference

It is interesting to note that the first Intermountain '37 AAR boxcar was done in O scale. The next one tooled was the one done for Jerry Porter's IMWX in HO. The 3rd (and latest) '37 AAR car that

of the present to version Just by chance I was visiting Intermountain several years ago when they were first working on the EMD F-units. They had designed the HO scale EMD 'bulldog' nose in the

the This is just a question. It is not intended to criticize or question and manufacturer or contributor to this forum. When looking at a box with riveted sides I can not always see the rivets.

Ed Hawkins wrote: The most remarkable thing to me about the "first version" of the IM model in HO of the R-40-10 was that it INTRODUCED errors not present in the O scale version done previously

J.P. was puttering around at Springfield. I talked to him briefly while visiting with Steve Funaro. He has slowed down but he looked well and was as sharp as ever. Tim O'Connor

Ed Hawkins: It's no comment on business practices to say that the first IM R-40- 10 had very poorly defined rivets on the side sheets. I have one, kept as an example, and the vertical and horizontal

Rob Another good CB&Q (partial) roof shot is in the MS PRR Color Guide Volume 2, p. 61. Tim O'