In a message dated 2/5/2004 10:16:55 PM Central Standard Time, ELDEN.GATWOOD@... writes: Martin; Do you know anything about a Corning Glass Plant in Charleroi, PA.? And, what would you

Martin; Do you know anything about a Corning Glass Plant in Charleroi, PA.? And, what would you recommend as a good source(s) to read up on this fascinating industry? Elden Gatwood

Great Al. For those who don't follow this ATSF stuff the Fe-P is a forty foot car and the Fe-Q is a fifty foot car. Looks like the Fe-Ps lasted until at least '43 but most (all?) of the Fe-Qs had

Bill, your post reminds me of an unfinished project in my collection awaiting a fresh set of Jones & Laughlin tank car decals. It's one of those H0 NWSL cars I picked up at a swap meet a decade ago.

Jon - We have some preliminary patterns in house which aren't good enough to use but can act as a starting point. I hope to do it this year plus the Fe-Q, using the same patterns. - Al

Hi All, Thanks to those who have replied. I should have mentioned that purpose of the hose I am looking for. I need the small black hose that is used between the train pipe valve and air hose

Scott the Fall 2003 issue of the Nickel Plate road also covered these cars. The series was numbered 1900-1999, 100 cars. all of the NKP photo's in the article show, N-KP 1948. Car in the photo's

I have found that a good source of appropriately sized material is the insulation from wire. There are some types of harder insulation that are quite thin and can be easily stripped from the wire. At

In a message dated 2/5/2004 3:16:20 PM Central Standard Time, shawn.beckert@... writes: Martin, Do your documents show anything in the way of boxcar assignments for the automobile and auto

Rob, Ben , All, Here's Soph's reply to my question whether the story of how they (IT) got the flat car. Clark... Yes...yes...YES! I have lots of photos of it. But I cannot rememer the number sans

That's the Fe-P the equivalent Fe car to the Bx3/6. A car I'd really like to see in resin! Can't tell if the car next to it is the same or an earlier auto car, like a Fe-M/N/O maybe. Jon

The AT&SF boxcar at the Hills Brothers plant in that 1940 photo posted by Shawn Beckert appears to be one of the 40-foot sectional-sheathed cars of class Fe-P. They had exposed hat-section steel side

List, I found this image while browsing the photo collection at the San Francisco Public Library: http://webbie1.sfpl.org/multimedia/sfphotos/AAC-7040.jpg The photo is of the Hills Brothers Coffee

It was in the Mar/Apr 1999 issue (didn't think it was that long ago). Since the magazine is sold out, I'd offer to send anyone the text file, but it was done on an old Mac that has long since been

Now it would, since the tooling is already cut. I don't think it can be un-cut. It's easy to remove the brackets -- use a dental tool with a wide chisel face. Since I discovered this I stopped using

I will wait to buy them. Marklin/Trix doesn't seem to have figured out the "build to order" system of limited production, so buyers who wait are rewarded with lower prices a year or so later. Ebay is

Just received the latest copy of the NYCHS Central Headlight today and it includes reproductions of the roof and end drawings for the Despatch style roof. Nice addition to the published record Roger

Steve Orth writes: Sounds good, Steve. I haven't looked at "Ding" much for years, as most stuff they seem to do is pretty modern for me, so I missed this one. Guess one can always get a Xerox from

I did an article on this for Model RailroadING about three years ago. Unfortunately, the issue is sold out (I doubt it was due to the O-50-6 kitbash article). Terry Metcalfe published a set of UP

Those of us who use e-mail filters to pre-sort our incoming mail have found the Yahoo's new "SpamGuard" is, at best, a simplistic approach, and more likely, an annoyance. For Instance: It appears