Jay Williams is alive and well, and lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. He usually has a sales table at the Naperville meeting. I have found many interesting photos in his collection. He has supplied

I have asked this question elsewhere but haven't received an answer so I hope you guys can help. I am currently building one of the Tichy war emergency composite gons. I am working on a PRR car. I

Perhaps because O scale models tend to be more expensive to begin with, there have been PRC-made imports for the last several years to try and develop facilities comparable to what we are used to from

Then look at this... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=735873337 Tim O'Connor <timoconnor@...> Sterling, Massachusetts

I spoke to Jay Williams over a year ago and he said he closed his web site because of a lack of traffic and a lot of expense. He was experiencing some financial difficulties because of a change in

I was looking at a photo of one of the cars in CGW series 43000-43398. It appears to be an ARA 1924 single sheathed car. I can't make out the roof or ends. Does anyone have a photo that shows either

timoconnor@... writes: $19,299 for a empty beer car? No wonder you see people walking the road looking for empty cans. TH

Bruce and Dean, I have heard the story about he owner of Samhongsa before. Several years ago he wanted to raise prices on passenger cars and a couple of the importers complained. He flat-out told

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1790162162 Tim O'Connor <timoconnor@...> Sterling, Massachusetts

Tim and Jerry, If on,y things were that cheap! How do you explain the prices Tom Marsh charges for the locomotives, cars and structures that come from his new plant in China called "Cheyenne

Ned asked Ted Ned, you probably don't have the recent tank cars done by Cheyenne. They were listed over $200 unpainted (although Marsh eventually dumped the unsold cars at $100) and were pretty

Jeff, I do not recall Ed doing the paint mixes in the RPC, but he, Pat Wider and Ray Long did do them in a series of articles in RMJ. The first was RMJ August 1989 titled "Box Car Red: Authentic

Ted, I have some OMI tank cars. Which ones are you referring to? What makes them a disaster? Perhaps there is something I can correct before painting and decaling. Ned

Came acrossed this on the atsf.railfan.net/snippets/freight.html while looking for packing house info. "Found" correspondence from Santa Fe offical 9/7/1946: "---two cars now have the map on both

Tim: You have presented the best and most accurate scenario thus far. Having worked with several importers on the development of a project your annalist is quite close to actual. I suspect those

Tim quotes: This has always been true, IF and ONLY if the compilation represents someone's judgement: for example, if Tim made up a list of the "best 20 steam books," or "the most representative

Sorry for the time it has taken me to chime in on this subject, but I'm really backed up with things. Regarding the color NYC used for red freight cars, I believe there are at least three

Since this subject has been discussed here many times, I find this ominous: "We believe copyright covers a compilation of facts." http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/21/technology/21COPY.html (If you

Ed, h Have you seen this site for NYC equipment? Has equipment diagrams and some actual steam-era pix: http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/nyc/nyc-frt.html Don't know if this is the same fallen flags

Hmmm.....maybe it's time to sell mine. :>) I obtained about 100 Keith builder photos at a very reasonable cost (I believe about $3 an 8 X 10)when I was assembling the material for the Magor book a few