The November, 1982 issue of Mainline Modeler has comprehensive text and photo documentation plus S scale drawings for the M-53 cars. I used this material to build an O scale replica. My construction

Hi All, I have a customer that is possibly in the market for a HO brass PRR H30 or H32 hopper. If you have one of each available a package deal may be possible. A newer run like Overland and

Given Al's comments about the resin business and knowing a little about programming, I'm just glad they have a web site. It will probably get improved. Sometimes you just have to ship. :) Especially

also a Historical According to RPCyc's web site, volume 9 is still availible and can be ordered from them. http://geocities.com/rpcyc/home.html Bob Kingman

Volume Nine of the Railway Prototype Encyclopedia (RPCyc) has an extensive article on both the M-15 conversions and the M-53s. It also covers the C-16 head end wagontops. Unfortunately, it is out of

So is there, like, easy jail and hard jail, too? or extreme jail (let's not go there) . . . Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2942 Linden Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

Sorry about mis-spelling your name Alan, and thanks for interjecting Allen, I agree with you about the centre beam Allen, but I'm not sure about the floor. There is some room to lower it compared to

Festus writes: "But wha' we want ta know is how long ya gonna keep 'em in Jail Sheriff and is dere gonna be a lynchin' #^)" Well...I'll admit that I often lose the key to occupied cells.

Clark: The roof in Martin's kit is an 11-panel riveted flat roof that goes with the SAL, WRT and NC&StL cars. The CGW, NdeM and Soo cars had 12-panel flat roofs, which Martin's kits do not have.

Yesterday I attended a swap meet in the Twin Cities Saturday, a guy had question about the Sunshine CGW 1932 kit. The instructions have a nice photo showing the roof. The panel lines on the roof line

Rob: Seeing as you spelled Allen my way rather than the way Mr. Welch spells it may I interject? I stand by my comments in Canadian Model trains of 9-28 that the floor is too high in the body and/or

Group: At long last, a web site is up. It's a start. http://www.southerncarandfoundry.com/ And yes, the 60' baggage cars are getting closer. Jon

Steve, I just realized your link was to the box car red car. IM also brought in an aluminum & black car -- very classy looking. The cars rebuilt in the 1930's were box car red.

Steve, they are not spot-on, but they're close. The paint scheme is accurate for USRA single sheathed cars that were rebuilt with steel sheathing as early as 1938, if not earlier. On the prototype

To Gordon's technique, I add a new first step. I take a fiberglass scratch brush or very fine sandpaper and then thin down the underlying decal. See second locomotive. This works even better on wood

railroad layout, retire) and allocate Otherwise, you it was advice as well. Take heart, Denny. Harold Werthwein started his Erie Railroad Delaware Division layout (a true spectacular) after he

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Thanks for your concise answer. -------------------- J. Stephen (Steve) Sandifer mailto:steve.sandifer@... Home: 12027 Mulholland Dr., Meadows Place, TX 77477, 281-568-9918 Office:

Steve, Look in Classic Freight Cars, Vol 1, page 39, same car number. Dick

Steve Sandifer asks: Steve, these are Tichy kits which InterMountain sends to China for assembly, painting, and lettering. The prototype crs were USRA 50 ton composite box cars built during WW I