But Paul, that's an entirely different equation -- SPH&TS doesn't do custom tooling, it just does custom paint. Many vendors will do this at very reasonable prices. My club has raised thousands of

Anyone familiar with "Railroad Prsss magazine"? Ed

Perhaps if you wait long enough, that fellow from Auburn will write them up in The Keystone Modeler. ;-) -Jeff -- Jeff Aley jaley@... DPG Chipsets Product

locomtives AutoCAD. the same Chuck, Is it easier to create a CAD drawing for RP as compared to doing drawings for injection-molding? I am under the impression that I could easily do a CAD drawing

Tim: We use a figure of 100 kits for the SPH&TS annual car, we usually sell out and it works out fine for us. 300 kits will take a long time to amortize your investment. Paul C. Koehler

Even at Al's quoted price of $3,000 this seems like a very low barrier to entry for would-be manufacturers who want to see their favorite prototype cars produced. Amortizing over 300 kits is $10 each

I have a pair of BLIs as the lettering I wanted (earlier style) was not done by Walthers. Not being a expert on these cars all I have to say is they look very nice and I didn't have to installing

Kind of like laser machining systems 20 years ago. Now you can get a desktop for $4K? Still even $4K is expensive for one tool, but the service bureaus will get better and in a few years we can crank

Tony, of course you are correct. I didn't intend to be lazy and slip in that poor excuse, but was attempting to limit the discussion and try to keep it corralled within the bounds. I should have

Scott, AFAIK, they are identical prototypes. I would LOVE to see an unbiased side by side review of these cars. Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn,

For our intents it is a Murphy roof, by another name (vendor). Regards, Ted Culotta Speedwitch Media 645 Tanner Marsh Road, Guilford, CT 06437 info@... www.speedwitch.com (650) 787-1912

See Bossler, "CNJ/LV Color Guide to Freight & Passenger Equipment", p 74 (LV 10038 with load of wrapped steel plate) -- Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla. was the find car and I the cast Bowser kit can

Brian Chapman wrote: Expertise is a relative thing. I've been trying to present the technology, as it were, but delving further into software nuances and what one needs for driving various RP

Scott Chatfield wrote: Yes, but was it badly hurt? <g> Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Now that Broadway has released their GACX 53'6" express reefer, why should we care? Is it a different prototype than the Walthers model? They look almost identical. The Broadway version costs a

I shot one of these some years ago. I'd have to look up the slide, but I'm guessing 1989 in Pennsylvania. Scott Chatfield

Missouri Pacific. Richard Hendrickson

wrote: freight by took best they car adopted in 1943 solid 41' Central), Lehigh the Standard cast were War II. ,snip> Richard, Oops. The last paragraph above caused me to reason that

Justin Kahn wrote: I don't know what it is, Justin, but it isn't SP. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

While we are on "metallurgy," I will comment briefly that the steels chosen in order to go to thinner boiler shells (thus saving weight on these big locos) yet keep high boiler pressures turned