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Re: HO Stock car prototypes

In a message dated 12/7/02 5:27:51 PM Pacific Standard Time, jssand@... writes: << Accurail (GN) Based on GN 56050-56248 built in 1957 from wooden boxcars originally constructed in 1919.

By Guy Wilber · #13707 ·

Re: Sandblasting

Your descriptions are vague, it seems like you have not used a sandblaster before, you mentioned a vacuum cleaner, is the vacuum cleaner hose hooked up so that it blowing instead of sucking? some work

By George William \(Bill\) Newport <gwnewport@...> · #13697 ·

Re: Pioneering well hole flat cars

Tony Thompson wrote: Thanks Tony for directing me to some possible sources of vintage railroad technology magazines! Does someone on this list have names of persons I can contact at these libraries

By Andreas.Kuehnpast@... · #13696 ·

Re: HO Stock car prototypes

Greg, Perhaps we could try to persuade Martin or Al to do this stock car in urethane. I have several of the AHM bodies and the amount of work it will take to rebuild them is daunting! Tom

By Thomas Olsen <tmolsen@...> · #13695 ·

Re: Sunshine

Jon, This has been standard procedure with Martin And Tricia. My check for both my last kit order and for my registration for Naperville did not clear for months. Tricia handles all the materials

By Thomas Olsen <tmolsen@...> · #13694 ·

Re: Lettering removal help

What number pencil, Dennis? SGL (Sorry, I can't resist yanking my good friend Dennis' chain, here.) 8^)

By Schuyler G Larrabee <SGL2@...> · #13692 ·

Re: Stock Cars

Tim O'Connor notes: If you are modeling any western or midwestern line before 1960, you almost have to have a livestock pen in every town... Not only every town...but some other places as

By mike brock <brockm@...> · #13691 ·

Re: Lettering removal help

On other brands of rolling stock, I have used a pencil, eraser end out, chucked into my electric screwdriver (low speed) with good results. This includes renaming Rivarossi sleepers, for

By Dennis Rockwell <dennis@...> · #13690 ·

Re: Stock Cars

Doug Harding observes Hopefully someone really knowledgeable about the subject will speak up! As far as I can tell, in the very beginning, stock was mostly collected at the end of 'cattle drive'

By Tim O'Connor <timoconnor@...> · #13689 ·

Re: Stock Cars

Steve's original question asks about stock cars for a clinic on stock operations. He wants to list available models, he mentions nothing about the type or construction of cars, be they plastic, resin,

By Doug Harding <dharding@...> · #13688 ·

Re: HO Stock car prototypes

Tim O'Connor wrote: Sparrow Point (John Greene?) offered a PRR K-9 that was milled from a Bowser carbody with mesh screens. Actually, it's a Class K11 car, but you're right about the kit

By Benjamin Frank Hom <b.hom@...> · #13687 ·

Re: Milwaukee rib sided box car

I used the 8 run ladders from Detail Associates. I have a scanned image of the finished model if you'd like to see it. Paul

By Paul Gehrett <pgehrett@...> · #13685 ·

Re: Sandblasting

Jim, I am sending you a JPEG of my setup. It's easier to show you than to try and explain it. I also had trouble figuring it out but both guns are attached and operable. I bought the big gun because

By Tim O'Connor <timoconnor@...> · #13686 ·

Sandblasting

A friend of mine loaned me his Northcoast sandblasting booth; he purchased it many years ago, had loaned it out to another buddy who had just recently returned it. He has no instructions. I hooked

By James F. Brewer <brewcrew@...> · #13681 ·

Re: HO Stock car prototypes

Ben Homm writes... I just have a couple of comments .... What Ben refers to as a "hat section" the steel industry calls a Round Edged Flanged Channel (REFC). prototype only had this > on the left

By Greg Martin · #13693 ·

Re: Stock cars

Doug Harding wrote: "Any reason why the Taurus Model's Oregon Short Line wood stockcar kit was not mentioned?" Because Steve's original question explicitly left out resin and wood craftsman

By Benjamin Frank Hom <b.hom@...> · #13683 ·

Re: Monon PS1 (was Yesteryear Models)

Mont, speaking of the Monon PS1, do you know if the Model RR Supply decals are still available? And can you tell me some valid numbers for Monon PS1's repainted in the "white band" scheme? Or did

By Tim O'Connor <timoconnor@...> · #13684 ·

Re: HO Stock car prototypes

Ditto. Really! Where do you find out about it? Where can I get one? Tim O'Connor <timoconnor@...> Sterling, Massachusetts

By Tim O'Connor <timoconnor@...> · #13682 ·

Re: HO Stock car prototypes

Jim Hayes writes: News to me, Jim - tell us more. NP kept most of those cars in revenue service through the 1950s. Richard H. Hendrickson Ashland, Oregon 97520

By Richard Hendrickson · #13679 ·

Re: Yesteryear Models

THE YESTERYEAR MONON CARS WERE RIGHT. THEY EVEN RESEARCHED WHICH CARS ACTUALLY WERE REPAINTED IN THE PARTICULAR PAINT SCHEME OFFERED. MONT

By Mont Switzer <ZOE@...> · #13680 ·

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