Bob Webber cautions- Bob, you are showing your age! Denny -- Denny S. Anspach, MD Sacramento

Gregg, Great info. I lived on the other end of that shipment. I t was a 22 mile trip for the loads to go from the mill to the boat in Botwood Newfoundland Canada. Andrew

Mike and list, In the mid-1960's the "Baltimore Sun" (A. S. Abell Co.) received newsprint from Newfoundland that arrived Baltimore by vessel and was loaded at the docks into PRR-furnished 40 foot

This nagging problem of excessive draft gear box size has plagued the HO hobby far too long, and IMHO, if we are to perceive ourselves correctly as "serious modelers", our admitted long toleration

Andy Sperandeo wrote: Andy, I have # 58 couplers without "The Gap", but have the # 78 couplers too been changed to the new design without gap? Andreas Kuehnpast

I've been a subscriber to this list for a while and I am well aware of Tony's tendencies.<G>. I was trying to pull everyone's leg a little by creating a circular logic problem (find the left side by

There is a short description in the product review section of the new issue of "The Warbonnet" (Third Quarter-2005 [Vol 12, No. 2]) detailing Sunshine's Sante Fe dry ice reefers. This very short, but

Bill, do you have (or can easily move) this data in a spreadsheet? It would make counts a lot easier and I could run the cars against my ORER database and for those that match provide in return all

draw considerably more than that, of course, but their attendance declines steadily, along with NMRA membership as a whole< Bad memory but I think the SFRH&MS draws somewhere between 300 to

The B&M/ST moved milled flour from New England Milling in Ayer MA to Prince Spaghetti in Lowell MA, about 20 miles or less. I think this still exists although the pasta factory has changed hands.

Naperville will be over 400 this year. NMRA national conventions still draw considerably more than that, of course, but their attendance declines steadlly, along with NMRA membership as a

Tim is correct, the truck on the IM Pfaudler milk cars are high speed Barber trucks and are quite different in appearance from the S-2 trucks with spring planks used on cars in freight

Bill & Tim, The other movement that caught my eye (since I'm a Monon guy) is the traffic to Sheridan Indiana, a mere 20 miles away. I've seen waybills for short (even 10 miles and less) movements

Isn't this discussion getting off subject????????????? Pat Wider

Tim wrote: <snip> I'd bet there are a lot less than 10,000 prototype modelers in the whole world, otherwise the number better kit manufacturers (for one instance) wouldn't be so small. For serious

Thanks for the good detective work, Tom! I am sure we will all benefit. Elden Gatwood

Tim O'Connor writes: In fact, Cocoa Beach had 251 in 2004, 232 in 2005. Ideally, a goal would be 300-350. The current numbers seem to allow attendees to easily participate and the facilities...now

I have several questions concerning these good-looking couplers: 1. Has anyone bought them in bulk and used them for an extended period of time on an operating layout with grades in trains having at

Eldon, I've only ever attended one NMRA convention.(Toronto) Only because it was in my backyard. Now I can say I've attended one. While I had a pleasent time it's not something I expect to ever

It would be very interesting to know just how many people out there consider themselves to be "prototype modelers" -- and really mean "modeler", not just someone who adheres to buying