When museums paint artifacts, such as cars or depots, as they "think" or "would like" them to be without careful research, then they have crossed over to "inventing" history. Such practice is of

I think I can visualize the difference between the Improved Dreadnaught end described below and the earlier one the model has, but I'm not sure. But, I'd throw out a request for something we

Bill Welch wrote For years I have wished for a replacement end for the Greenville (Proto 2000) gondola that matches the SLSF and I think RI cars, which had non-tapered sine wave ends (like a PS-1

My apologies for an earlier error in arithmetic: 2-1/2 inches in HO is actually .0287 inches. - Andy

Gerard J Fitzgerald wrote: This is fine, but let's see if this matters for how freight cars are painted at museums. History is not science, nor is it "facts;" the famous analogy is that an

Hi Schuyler, I looked at the 1940 CBC, and while there are no minimum clearance dimensions in the drawings for the corner grabs, the text of the safety appliance section on page 1093 gives 2 inches

Hello again, As a member of the board of directors of Railway Preservation News (www.rypn.org) I would like to extend an invitation for those interested in the larger issues surrounding history and

Hello all, Again - another very insightful post (one of the reasons I like this board) colleagues. One As a person who has degrees in both history and sociology, who is writing works that fall both

Sorry, Doc, perhaps I should have not used such a broad brush. But, the fact remains that between the changes made to accommodate current day safety regulations, modern day replacements for

Group: Need some help with the underbody on the 40' Harriman Headend Combination car. I need the layout and placement location of the needle beam(s). Which are nothing more than two metal cross

For those of you that anticpate modeling one of the postwar 65 foot Mill Gondolas, the early 3-bay PS-2, (both Athearn) or Al Westerfield's New York Central stock car with wood roof, I am working on

Ingenious, I polish the tread because most freight cars have sort of shiny treads and they don't look black to me. Glad to know it has another benefit. I always brush paint though, I have a small

Good as far as it goes, Tony, but, as you explained yourself just a couple of messages ago, the point size of printer's type is measured from baseline to baseline. On the other hand modelers usually

So is the use of the word club here also to be seen as a metaphor? At the risk of giving our moderator a headache or continuing a ?discussion? that may best be left alone I feel morally compelled to

Bill Keene wrote: You're forgiven. Now clean the erasers and go home <g>. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Tony, SOLID BEARINGS SOLID BEARINGS SOLID BEARINGS SOLID BEARINGS SOLID BEARINGS SOLID BEARINGS SOLID BEARINGS SOLID BEARINGS SOLID BEARINGS SOLID BEARINGS SOLID BEARINGS THOSE BRASS THINGS I WILL

I wrote: In addition, I should have repeated what I said earlier: 12-inch high prototype lettering may NOT be exactly the height of ANY type, even in a close point size such as I calculated,

Schuyler Larrabee wrote: Yeah, it's flip. You and I and most of the active people on this list would know immediately if it's "truthful" or not. Whether a completely ignorant member of the public

Prototype points or scale points? Probably the latter, i.e. the point size used in making the decals, which are then alleged to be scale size. So let's do the arithmetic (not "math," notice): 12

--- In STMFC@..., Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> wrote: Keep in mind that the > point size does NOT tell you the height of letters. is > only an approximate guide to exact letter