Looking at the pictures of this car in the magazine it is distinctly green, almost like the ink in one of those fluorescent green highlighters. Is that correct or a printing error? The chrome yellow

Eldon, Thanks for the kind words, but you don't know my dirty little secrets. Like, for example, how many times those models have been through the grit blaster because I messed something up. Or how

Chrome yellow is also the standard color for school buses. Chuck Hladik (using my whole name KT) ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

Russ, Very enjoyable reading. I never get tired of looking at train consists and switch lists. I bet that Tony T. liked all the PFE's and their lading. Within a year of this day, I had hired out

Ed - Thanks for the tip. MY retirement plans call for modeling NYC in 1948 so I'll look for it. If you burn a DVD off the cable you might be able to snatch some fairly decent frames using a video

Just as I was getting all excited about lettering one of my Lobaugh 65' mill gondolas for PE, Tony goes and knocks the idea on its head. Back to my original plan of one becoming Wabash (I HAVE seen a

I just saw the classic movie "The Naked City" on TMC. In first few minutes it shows a crowded freight yard; I'd pay $15 for a clear print of that scene. I have a few photos from Joe Collias taken at

There has been some threads dealing with onions, and specifically "Vidalia" onions earlier. They belong to a class of onions known in the trade as "Sissy" onions. They are discussed with this moniker

All, Spent much of today out in the heat and humidity working on a truck. Do not feel like doing anything else useful. Decided to transcribe a day at Congress Park Eastbound. Criteria for picking the

Folks; The X31 F7C did for West Shore is certainly not as fine as the Bowser car body, when you look at it really close up, but it looks just fine viewed at normal viewing distance, particularly

Hm. I must've dreamt that, then... I'll go with a boxcar, then, for my PE model. Frank Valoczy

Occasionally questions arise on this group about how much of this or that commodity was shipped by rail or produced in a given year. In the case of citrus (a primary topic for me), the PFE book has

Tony, Actually I didn't write this, Tim did, but Tim has a good point albeit his transit times might be a bit off. But, yes Tony I am in the business and I do understand and have filled many claims

Might try this one (link below) by Frank Donovan (illustrated article in an issue of Railroad Magazine) in

If you worked on the forth floor of the Washington Post Building in Washington, D.C. (AP Wire) the West starts at the Virginia border as in West Virginia! Lindsay

I have found the Morning Sun books a good source of information about operations and the equipment books, of course, a good source about freight equipment. Even the two trackside at . . . . books I

In a message dated 6/21/2007 2:19:07 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, SUVCWORR@... writes: The drawing accompanying all of the X31 cars from West Shore is of the X31b. This is a copy of the

Sounds like a neat idea. John Degnan Scaler164@...

Rich, If look closely at the West Shore Line kits you will quickly see they are pretty crude by today's resin standards. I decided they were not worth building and sold all of by kits a year or so

The drawing accompanying all of the X31 cars from West Shore is of the X31b. This is a copy of the drawing published in Mainline Modeler. Is the drawing of the floor and associated details in