Here they are, Jack: Road, AAR, Kind, Series, IL, Door, Capy, Qty The ORER describes this as "Box, Trap" CNW, XM, Box, 15800-15998, 39'10", 6'0", 80000, 3 These next nine are described as "Steel

I think there are those things that dont get bette with age and some of those kits fall into that catagory. Robet Federle ---- Tony Thompson <thompsonmarytony@...> wrote:

Tony wrote: You don't really want us to decide which of those possibilities was correct, do you? Jack Burgess www.yosemitevalleyrr.com

My favorite "old" kit story is about the Athearn metal box car--which I found to be hell to assemble as a teenager, back when the kits were new. Decades later, I thought, "Now I have the skills to do

Malcolm, If one looks at a photo of a wood car, there iare few clues that it is wood. I have no problem making plastic look like real wood. Most of the wood models look fake because of the excessive

AHTuten@... To: CofGmodeler@... There were at least two groups of CofGa wood box cars in the 40000 series, but since the original message mentions 1950, that's the group I'll

Brian I successfully built one of the WM RY brass cabeese with a combo of solder and ACC. It turned out quite well, and I have to look carefully to separate it from the commercial brass ones. Don't

Larry, What are the other C&NW unknowns? Jack Mullen

Brian Paul Ehni wrote: Brian, you're missing Tim's point. He observed that the relevant part of locomotive weight is the wheel-rail contact, which is an area, so that scaling might go as the

For some of us who truly enjoy the very process of working with and modeling in wood and paper, old kits can be, and are treasures. I am in the process of finishing a c.1940 Varney foil covered and

Jim, I'll second your recommendation. I have the book (actually, my wife got it for me for Christmas), and it's very well done. Sometimes the publications of historical societies can be amateurish;

I purchased a copy of this book at the most recent Timonium show. It is a 112 page softcover, perfectly bound volume, printed on coated paper. The book covers WM boxcars and refrigerator cars from

Ed & list The Railroad Progress kits get my vote, many times over! Fred Freitas jrhill <jrhill@...> wrote: Ed Mines asked: In O Scale, I'm betting on the

Not square; it would have to be cube as stated earlier. An HO item is 1/87th smaller in three dimensions, not just two. -- Thanks! Brian Ehni From: Anthony Thompson

Tim O'Connor wrote: I understand your point, Tim, but doesn't it mean the weight should scale as the square of 87, not just as 1:87? Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley,

--- ed_mines wrote: Although most of the kits in my basement are mine, I have about a dozen down there from guys who have seen my models at the club and then they give me a kit and say "Can you build

--- Brian Paul Ehni wrote: Brian I'm sure we've been over this before -- weight/volume varies as the cube, but surface area (wheel on rail) varies with the square. Therefore HO models carry 1/87 of

--- Kurt Laughlin wrote: Yes, the old Front Range riveted double door cars are the best starting point. This tooling was sold to Accurail who now makes a version with cast-on details. Some classes of

Hi Folks This is an update on our knowledge of the DS/SS split as of July 1950. It incorporates new data from Jim Brewer, Al Brown, Chuck Peck, and Dennis Storzek. All box, auto, and ventilator