One of the problems with getting old is the lag in price perception...... If you take the original retail price of any of the "standard" products that people are always using as a comparison against

Just got this note from a friend of mine on the coast... Subject: Rich Meyer of Champion Decals According to the Minot Daily News, Rich Meyer of Champ Decals passed away Saturday at his

It has been posted to various decal and lettering groups that Rich Meyer of Champ passed away this weekend. Christian Tucker New York

Terry Harrison wrote: But we are back to the much higher priced product only a very small % will buy. And this is same in any scale. Look at your HO Kadee $29.95 boxcars! But when the Kadee boxcars

The difference here is not that the manufacturers in question of somehow costing more to hire a better tool maker, or spending more time on the tooling, but on a descision to re-use certain existing

Tom; I would be very interested in the information on the passenger carrying roads. Is it a really lengthy document? I am basically interested in the listing of suggested consolidations and

Woody, I don't have any steam era color photos of these cars but my educated guess based on WM practice at the time would be that they were oxide red when built. I like Scalecoat II Oxide Red,

Yes that is an air powered jack. Also if you notice there is a steel plate resting on the bottom of the wheel, this goes under the jack and helps to keep the wheel from lifting with the side

Gene, Great pic of man working on trucks. Thank God there was someone back there that had brains enough to take more then just engine and caboose pics! This pic tells many stories. Terry

Hi all, One thing to remember is that most of the Atlas "O" goes to the three rail market. The scalers are many fewer. Given that, these may be "awful" to the rivet counters, but they are light

The higher cost is a myth. The two cars you are talking about were produced using as many cavities as possible from other cars. The new cars sells for the same price as the the original one. So what

I was the national S scale promotions chairman last year. One thing I was pushing for then, and still now, is better and more accurate models. But in a way, doesn't this get to a catch 22 situation?

Don Valentine wrote: Would it not be better to have the cars done right and offer O and S scale Hi-rail modelers something that is better for them as well? Guess I should I have finished my thought

see archive. Dave Nelson

James Wolf asked: Do you know if the width of the car body on the Atlas O car matches the prototype? IOW, can I use the body and make a new underframe and side sills? I'm not sure, but since the

I hate to let my ignorance hang out for all to see, but, what products other than LPG were carried in the tank cars like the new Atlas 11,000 gal tank cars? Were these cars used to carry other

Richard, In the 1920s were they building new cars with TR UF and a steel draft sill? I am familiar with the B&O's extensive retrofit of their M-8s (built new w/TRUF and wood draft sills in the

= = = Thank you, Ben. I don't think we have had any reluctance to cite material appearing in other publications if that material adds to the overall knowledge of the reader. Of course, Bob Hundman

Waaaal, I'd be really happy with the 40 foot AAR 10'6" i.h. cars that you're making in S, Earl. That's why I asked you to do them in O Scale (grin). It's pretty frustrating to attempt modeling the

Jim Ogden inquires: Steel center sills, or "draft sills," became common after the turn of the century and almost universal on cars with truss rod underframes after WW I; the cars Atlas modeled