Don't use an air eraser it destroyed the car I did. Bill Vaughn

Garth Groff wrote: I claim no expertise with regard to Pullman-Standard's history, but it is certainly the case that the War Production Board banned the introduction of any new designs or tooling

Tom Madden wrote They're MINE MINE ALL MINE!!! Keepa you hands off!!! I deserve to get Sunshine and Westerfield kits for 10 bucks!! ;o) Seriously, I don't mind overbids. (Heck, I have a friend at

Bruce Smith wrote: I've been searching titles for "model train kit", which fetches 130 listings, all of them the Gronsky stuff. What frustrates me is the seller has 34 _pages_ of eBay listings, at 25

John, Your idea about price is probably important. But price is also tied into scale of production. You know, cranking out 50,000 widgets drops the price way down compared to 500. Probably the war

Byron sez: Yep, 'bout a dozen went on the list yesterday. I don't know 'bout the rest of you, but I've found the listings a little frustrating since the seller seems to have no clue about search

On Fri, 01 Jun 2001 03:36:22 -0000 ted_culotta@... writes: Sounds like Gronski to me. I met him at Mitchells about 4-5 years ago, when I first brought out my war emergency flat car kit. He

Bill, Sounds like you have a photo of the EP&SW cars, I have heard of one in _Locomotive Quarterly_ several years back. Are there others out there? Bill Kelly Bill Daniels

Dave Nelson wrote, in response to Garth's query about stock traffic on the WP highline: Sorry to be rather tardy responding on this subject, but I have the freight car interchange book for Beiber, CA

Just to find out who's estate this is I have asked the seller of these kits. He seems to be good about answering questions. Jon Miller AT&SF For me time has stopped in 1941 Digitrax DCC owner, Chief

He did good work, too. I saw many of those cars at Mitchell's and they were very well built. They were also $100 or so back in 1993.. perhaps even more now. If he was able to build 15 a month I guess

Gronski was (is) the man who placed all the built up Westerfield kits at Mitchell's. He lived in PA and ordered from us monthly, calling just as frequently. He would normally order about 15 cars a

Probably nothing...as I've since looked at the cover with a magnifier (those halftone dots are hell!) and noticed that the doors appear to have three hinges on each side, which was the PFE standard,

ted_culotta@... wrote: Actually the prototype for the kit was a PRR gon, although I think that E&B (who originally did the kit) modified the sides so that the ATSF car could also be done. Bill

Shawn: You will probably have to have copy negs shot of all of these photos and prints made. These prints will be distributed to every member of this list to receive the assistance you need. :-)

be Robert from us in order book time. And Shop/Sunshine I don't know. Robert Gronski is a new name to me. The price tags on many of these kits say The Train Shop for the Sunshines and Mitchell's

heard C&NW, in Are you talking about the 65 footers? I was referring to the 52'6" Bethlehem gon (that Dave Nelson pointed out.) I think the 65' models would be harder given the subtle and

Perhaps this is old news, but I found additional information on the Maerklin HO scale UP freight cars. Surprisingly, they will have separately-applied details. I'm a bit leery of the box car with