Last e-mail address I had for Ron Van Werder is: rocketexpress1@... Jerry in Fla

Those would be the Sunshine Muncie & Western ³Ball Line² Mather cars, yes? -- Brian Ehni From: Bruce Smith <smithbf@...> along with plenty of boxcars full of empty

"Rocket Express" has a 3-3-3 Dreadnaught end as part of the 40' and 50' Rock Island car he did in resin. He sent me an extra one to use on a Frisco kit bash I am doing using the MDC 50 footer. I

Larry Jackman, trying to prove he knows about as much about pickling as he does about trains says: For a contemporary source on pickle and pickling, see: http://www.picklenet.com/ Alum was used a

Scott, Upon thinking back to my old days as a C&O modeler, I remembered that the MDC rib-sided 40-foot ballast hopper was similar to a C&O car. I think these were built in the late 1950s (otherwise I

Good advice. One thing the writer's guide should have in it is whether or not a magazine will accept simultaneous submissions. If it doesn't, submit only to it and wait for a rejection to submit

I've submitted material to RMJ, MR, MRing, and The Streamliner. I call first to see if there's interest. Then type it up. As one person noted, the photography is every bit as important, if not

I would advise you to contact the Editor of the magazine first with your subject idea to see if they are interested. DO NOT send an unsolicited manuscript. Many of the magazines will never

Walthers is showing the singles as received. -- Brian Ehni

Most of the list is probably familar with the Rensselaer Model Railroad club pages, but for those who aren't. http://railroad.union.rpi.edu/ Nowadays you have to pay a little bit for them, but I

That is a very long and slow trip. My mother made pickles and it took longer than a month. Also it takes more than salt. It takes alum and vinegar also. Thank you Larry Jackman

--- George Gounley <gounleys@...> wrote: Maybe a farmer might get lucky and have his pigs make him some bacon!!! Unsigned Ojai CA

Al Westerfield wrote: "Cucumbers were delivered to salting stations where they were soaked in brine. During their journey to the bottling plant in the pickle cars they turned into pickles. " Is

No they're not. The production master is bad. I want to re-issue them as one-piece car bodies (3 different kits) but just haven't had the time. - Al

The MDC 9-rib car is mostly an early-50s Bethlehem triple built to the general AAR 70-ton dimensions of the time, but it also has a few features of the partially-welded cars ACF built for C&O in the

At the STMFPH group files, I've posted my circa 1994 photo of an ATSF 50' DD car which definitely has Murphy panels on the 3rd and 4th panels from each end, as seen on the various other roads' cars

C&O modelers of the 50s and 60s "need" the 40' 3-bay rib side hopper, but MDC's is pretty crude-- I redid two or three but I'm sitting on 9 others for now, not wanting to put in the effort to achieve

Scott: I'm one of those that do see articles coming from that. If for no other reason, I don't have the time to do a highly detailed, rivet counting, dead nuts accurate model every time.

I wouldn't be surprised but what one reason for the combining of MDC/Roundhouse with Athearn in California is to give Athearn access to the MDC line of Steam locomotive kits/r-t-r items and improve

Andy Miller writes: Andy and all, Good choice Andy! The MDC Roundhouse RS3 is the most accurate RS3 in plastic. The axle spacing is correct, the thickness of the corner of the cab behind the