Try medium weight CA glue hit with your favourite accelerator. This works especially well where you need to fill sink marks or ejector pin holes and can sand and file the surface without risking too

Decades out of date? And in an NMRA publication? Surely not! Someone should nominate Rip Van Winkle for NMRA president. Richard Hendrickson [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Tim Gilbert wrote: Thanks for saying this, Tim. The Weiss article is a real "time machine" back to the modeler's attitudes of decades ago, though at least it tries to be quantitative. Tony

Bob Chaparro wrote: Bob, The central premise of Michael Weiss' determination of the ownership distribution of freight cars on a 1950's layout is railroad driven rather an examination of what car

The Winter 2005 issue of the Marker Lamp, the official publication of the Lone Star Region/NMRA, featured an article by Michael Wiess titled, "Determining A 1950s Freight Car Fleet". The article

My apologies for starting an off-topic thread. I guess I should have mentioned that the parts I want are for older freight cars. And my thanks to all who responded - on and off line. Jim

Richard Hendrickson wrote: On Richard's previous recommendation of this I bought some and have been very satisfied. Smells GREAT. Just like old fashioned airplane dope. 8-) The only caution is you

I'll third the motion. I have a one-pound tube of Nitro-Stan Spot and Glazing Red Putty 9001. It's a life-time supply (still good after 15 years) and it originally cost me $5.95. Pat Wider

I'll second Armand on this, as I've used it for years. The product you want is available at most auto parts stores and auto paint supply houses as "glazing putty" or "spot putty." It's easy to

Another source I should have mentioned is the article on 10 ft IH postwar boxcars in Railway Prototype Cyclopedia, Vol. 8. http://geocities.com/rpcyc/v8.html Larry Kline Pittsburgh, PA

Tim Costello asked: With the discussion of freight trucks and mention of RPC #4 as a comprehensive reference, I'd like to ask if there is a similar comprehensive review of (boxcar) ends, and boxcar

I've put off building any Branchline 50' B&O cars until now, since as soon as I did research on these I realized they would be more complicated than average. References: Ed Hawkins articles in RMJ,

Nice car. I notice that it has two different trucks. Tim O.

I have used auto body putty with great success.It is much cheaper too.Squadron green and/or white putties are also very good.Hope this helps. .Armand Premo

Folks, I have just uploaded some photos of a FGEX car that I recently took at the Central of Georgia Roundhouse complex in Savannah, GA to the photos section. This car was either bought, donated or

Eric Petersson wrote "I was reading an issue of Fine Scale Modeler and there was an article in which a modeler made castings out of bismith and then had them plated........". Would you please be so

Kinda like what I do...., place my desk lamp close to the surface, leave on for about an hour. -Andy Carlson --- ljack70117@... wrote: AC wrote: Down

A good roster shot of an early Fruit Growers Express refrigerator car from the Henry Ford Museum collection is available at: http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/pic/2005/august.asp# Click on the image to

David Smith wrote: I don't think so. Natural magnetite can be magnetized with a strong field, but isn't particularly attracted to iron by itself. Any such effect would be weak, compared to

Put it in an oven at 100/120 degrees and it will harden faster. Thank you Larry Jackman ljack70117@...