Remember the "special run approach" comment I made a couple of weeks ago -- the Tichy run is a perfect example of "So you're the manufacturer and your special run customer who ordered the cars has

Marty, Good list, but you left out Intermountain offering assembled Tichy R-40-4s, with K-brakes, black ends, hatch platforms, and 1950s lettering. A total mish-mash. As for "another PFE reefer",

Oh but it is so. Especially rampant among those who prefer scenery to rolling stock and have no concept of the time, effort or money that go into the rolling stock. We also have our fair share of

Andy, Again, this time very brief as brevity is key to clarity -- I know there were specific ends tooled for the R-40-25 -- and it wasn't a case of simply a case of taking an R-40-23 with a

--- mjmcguirk@... wrote: Marty, Paul simply repeated my typo error- which I posted a correction quite quickly. The IM R-40-25 end is incorrect, as Dan Smith has posted. It is only a -25 end in

Marty Every part of the North Shore is accessible by hand, but you have to be willing to crawl under the layout in some cases. Many of the members are too old or too fat or just too lazy to do it,

Speaking of the "33 year old tooling".... At the time the Athearn cars came out their was some scuttlebutt going around (at the time they came out I was working at All Nations Hobby Shop in Chicago)

Marty, after Dan & Andy described the problem, I checked photos, and the Amarillo models, and indeed, the end is wrong and it really shows when you know what to look for. In fact, this modified end is

Umm ... Westerfield's 1500-series kits have 5' doors, or so the site says anyway. Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

This is perhaps the best example of poor communications I've seen in a long time . . . most caused by people trying to type and wonder, fretfully, why George Mason couldn't go all the way in the NCAA

I guess I'm really curious where exactly you guys are finding all these layouts that have such a long reach that you need a mechanical arm to pick up equipment. There is a good, and valid, topic in

Keep in mind that any "ban" that predates the federalization of these sort of rules in the early seventies is only a ban in interchange service, and as far as Jack's YV caboose is concerned, the

Hello Group, Perhaps a few comments from Kadee maybe in order now. First a personal thank you to Ed Hawkins for his continuum of friendship, information, comments, and his extensive assistance

But Al W. has not done the car with the 5 foot door, so I have assumed his data sheets did not include information for the cars in question. Am I wrong? Bill Welch were

Jon, I was referring to MSRP in all cases. Dumping them was not in ERTL's original plans. <G> Doug Brown

Tim, The general arrangement of the Kadee model is more like the Athearn model than the Atlas model, however, that's where the similarities stop. There's absolutely no comparison of the level of

Bill, This is a tremendously large and complex subject because the cars were built for a number of parent railways such as the Canadian Northern railway, Canadian Government Railway, the Grand Trunk

I note from the few photos I have of the Canadian National's 36 foot Dominion boxcar with a 5 foot door, side ladders with 6 rungs are present while some had 7 rungs. I assume they were built like

likely correct Off country and (due to time period constraints) off topic: In Germany wheels are painted. Mostly some kind of medium grey. Look here for some loco

Doug Brown wrote No argument. I said the analogy only went so far -- to illustrate the importance of choosing a marketable prototype. ERTL had many problems which there is no need to go over