Dave, Could you provide me with an address and perhaps a phone number of the "Train Shop" and whether they have a mail order or phone order side of their business. I have a need for a dozen or so of

Random thoughts on some of today's comments. [Caveat - much of what follows is my understanding of Sunshine's activities, and if it's inaccurate it's my fault. Martin and I exchange phone calls and/or

Bruce, I think you've hit the nail on the head about built-up kits "ruining" the value. I am getting REALLY FED UP with the collector mentality that is invading this hobby (although when I go to sell

find the licking the an order this is and/or In the case of the Sunshine kits on ebay, I am happy to pay list price (or even a little above, but not much) because I know that I will have the kits in

Sunshine kit are going very high but not Al's. I won a batch at $65 which is about the normal bid for the Westerfield cars. $65 divided by 4 is $16.25 a car which is not a bad price at all

Regarding Sunshine's lack of a web presence: Does anyone know if Martin has a computer at all? I mean this in a kindly way - It took a very long time for friends to persuade me to get a computer and

Dave, in my case this was NOT the issue. I was thinking about how resin kits are made, and then sold. Martin makes a batch of 20-40 kits from a single set of molds. Once a batch is made, ideally (as

Regarding the CGW's 1947 order of PS-1's, while packing up photos for my house move I found that I had a 1960-ish photo of one of these cars with the "Lucky Strike" herald that I bought from Michael

Morning Y'all, Okay...I've been following (and bidding on a few) the resin on eBay, and I have decided the following...Al (Westerfield), you need to change your motto. It isn't as good as brass, its

My cowardly solution is to model one of the cars with the homemade welded steel roof, as this can easily be represented with sheet styrene and .010 styrene rounds cemented into grooves to simulate

John, I don't remember the details, but the L-L models were based on photos of WP black/orange gondolas which had orange corners to identify them as being in some sort of assigned service. Richard H.

In fact, they were never banned. Weren't wooden end reefers used right up until the end of our interest. And even beyond I bet, but I'm not interested in looking it up. BSR On Wed, 6 Jun 2001

The article on these cars in RP Cyc #3 has photos that confirm this. The caption states that the corners (only two) were painted International Airport Orange, but it does not indicate the reason

At least one photo of a Southern low side gondola appeared in O. Winston Link's "The Last Steam Railroad in America". Timothy O'Connor <timoconnor@...> Marlborough, Massachusetts

166 prints arrived on consignment from Bob's Photo of Southern RR subjects. I will return about 100 as they are too modern (good news for our modern colleagues). IMO among the treasures are the only

Somewhere, probably from the L-L site, I have a description that some of their Western Pacific gons have "orange corners". I don't know what that means (I'm even doubting now that I saw this), and

Although there was lots of talk about Bob Hanson's book on the GA RR, no one mentioned the publisher's web site, where his and other RR books are mentioned. The publisher is Overmountain Press.

I wasn't aware that they ever were banned. Most of the bans were on mechanical problems, involving trucks and underframes. Except for tank cars, there doesn't seem to have been much official concern

Garth You are right, there is a GA book by Mr. Prince. However, it does not deal with freight cars and the like. But, if you are interested in steam power man, that is THE GARR book to have, make