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Photo of ATSF 108316 LG-2
David Sieber
Found a nice shot of an LG-2; from series ATSF 108305-108504 converted 1953-54 from GA-8 gons (though the slide was taken a bit after this group's era : Enjoy! Dave Sieber, Reno NV
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New Decals Available
hubert mask
Mask Island Decals pleased to announce the following steam era decals.
87-257 Rock Island 40' Route of the Rockets Biddle build 1948 87-258 Rock Island 40' Rocket Freight 1949 Available, listed under freight Mask Island Decals maskislanddecals.com
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Re: STMFC
Marty McGuirk
Sometimes a pig with lipstick is just a funny looking pig…
Marty McGuirk
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Re: Walthers Hideous Tank Car
Garth Groff <sarahsan@...>
Tod and friends,
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This is the Walthers tank car in question: http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/910-1001 . As some people have pointed out, this is similar to the 1950s Varney tank car, later Lifelike (long before the Proto 2000 era). The Varney car I had as a youth had no rivets, and did not have near the detailing of the Walthers car. I suspect the Walthers tank is new tooling, but was dimensioned off the original Varney car. Train Miniature originally showed a similar car on their boxes. Shortly after TM was taken over by Walthers in the 1970s, this car appeared in their catalogs. It might actually have been TM tooling that was never put into production before the company sold out. Thank you all for answering my question. It looks like my idea got lots of raspberries, and that's o.k. Yes, Richard, I do have one of the Proto 2000 type 21s in Sinclair. This Walthers tank still has a use, along with a half-dozen or so unimproved Accurail boxcars and a couple of Athearn hoppers. They are expendable cars that visiting kids to run on my layout, and I won't be too upset if they take that long dive to the floor. Yours Aye, Garth Groff On 3/28/14 4:33 PM, Riverboy wrote:
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PFE BR-40-10 express reefer
A rare and beautiful shot of a BR-40-10 riding on Symington-Gould trucks!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/400683411351 Tim O'Connor
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Re: Hat maker in Maine
Chad Boas
Is it a Kromer Cap? Chad Boas
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Re: Fine Wire Screen Material Found in my Kitchen
By "400 mesh" does that mean "400 to the inch"? If so, that sounds pretty fine to me! Tim O'Connor At 3/28/2014 07:53 PM Friday, you wrote:
Before all of you go to Walmart and spend your hard earned dollars on coffee filters, be aware that I sent Bill Welch a sample of 400 mesh stainless steel that I prefer for window screening in HO scale. We are all awaiting Bill�s learned evaluation relative to it�s suitability for the SAL car.
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Re: Fine Wire Screen Material Found in my Kitchen
Nelson Moyer <ku0a@...>
Before all of you go to Walmart and spend your hard earned dollars on coffee filters, be aware that I sent Bill Welch a sample of 400 mesh stainless steel that I prefer for window screening in HO scale. We are all awaiting Bill’s learned evaluation relative to it’s suitability for the SAL car.
My coffee filter is crude by comparison, so I highly recommend that you wait for Bill’s evaluation. I have a lifetime supply of the 400 mesh, and I’m willing to sell it at cost plus a first class stamp. My cost at the time of purchase was 15¢ per square inch. I don’t yet know how many square inches it takes for the SAL car, but your total cost is certain to be under $2.00 and probably $1.00 including postage.
Nelson Moyer
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From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] On Behalf Of jon miller Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 6:23 PM To: STMFC@... Subject: Re: [STMFC] Re: Fine Wire Screen Material Found in my Kitchen
On 3/28/2014 3:56 PM,
Scott H. Haycock wrote:
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Re: Fine Wire Screen Material Found in my Kitchen
Scott H. Haycock
I found it in the sewing department. They had a display of rolls of ribbon. The stuff I found was black, and has wire along along the edges to make it stiffer than regular ribbon. If you hold it up to the light it has a transparent quality to it. The weave is very fine and hard to see without magnification. The brand name on the roll is Offray, and it is described as "wired sheer". You can probably find it at any fabric store as well. Scott Haycock Modeling Tarheel country in the Land of Enchantment
On 3/28/2014 3:56 PM, Scott H. Haycock wrote:
> > I found some ribbon at Walmart that was made of a sheer material that > looks just like miniature screen. It's would be good to define the material a little better. Going to Walmart and using that description would probably end up making me want to strangle someone [grin]! -- Jon Miller For me time stopped in 1941 Digitrax--Chief/Zephyr systems, JMRI User NMRA Life member #2623 Member SFRH&MS
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Re: Fine Wire Screen Material Found in my Kitchen
jon miller <atsfus@...>
On 3/28/2014 3:56 PM, Scott H. Haycock wrote:
It's would be good to define the material a little better. Going to Walmart and using that description would probably end up making me want to strangle someone [grin]! -- Jon Miller For me time stopped in 1941 Digitrax--Chief/Zephyr systems, JMRI User NMRA Life member #2623 Member SFRH&MS
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Re: Fine Wire Screen Material Found in my Kitchen
Scott H. Haycock
I found some ribbon at Walmart that was made of a sheer material that looks just like miniature screen. It is much more see-through than most metal screen that I've used, like the Clover House stuff. I bought a 2-1/2" wide roll (a lifetime supply) for a few dollars. Scott Haycock Modeling Tarheel country in the Land of Enchantment I looked at the mesh teabag photo, found the Haney cachet bags and Googled white mesh bag that led to organza party bags. They're all over the internet but I landed at Amazon. Randy Danniel
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Re: Walthers Hideous Tank Car
Richard Hendrickson
On Mar 28, 2014, at 1:33 PM, Riverboy <river_dweller_ohio@...> wrote:
Tod, it’s the model Walthers describes as a “36’ 10,000 gal. AC&F tank car.” Don’t confuse this model, whose origins go way back to an even worse piece of Varney junk, with the former Life-Like Proto 2000 tank cars, now made by Walthers, which are good, prototypically accurate models of AC&F Type 21s. Richard Hendrickson
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Re: Walthers Hideous Tank Car
Riverboy
Thanks Tim. I actually kind of forgot about this Walthers release. Yes, it would need a lot of work to make it into a much more accurate car. Tod Dwyer (Ohio) From: Tim O'Connor
To: STMFC@... Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 4:43 PM Subject: Re: [STMFC] Walthers Hideous Tank Car This was their tank car inherited from VARNEY! So the tooling precedes
the era of the commercial jet aircraft. :-) http://www.ebay.com/itm/191109900168 Tim O'Connor >I don't want to sound too ignorant, but exactly which Walthers tank car are you referring to? I'd like to look and see how hideous it really is. >Tod Dwyer (Ohio)
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Re: Walthers Hideous Tank Car
This was their tank car inherited from VARNEY! So the tooling precedes
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the era of the commercial jet aircraft. :-) http://www.ebay.com/itm/191109900168 Tim O'Connor
I don't want to sound too ignorant, but exactly which Walthers tank car are you referring to? I'd like to look and see how hideous it really is.
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Re: Walthers Hideous Tank Car
Riverboy
I don't want to sound too ignorant, but exactly which Walthers tank car are you referring to? I'd like to look and see how hideous it really is. Tod Dwyer (Ohio) From: Garth Groff
To: STMFC@... Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 2:12 PM Subject: [STMFC] Walthers Hideous Tank Car Friends,
After a long break for other interests, I have returned to trains and rejoined this group. It will be great to become reacquainted with old friends, and make some new ones. So I'm sitting here looking at a Walthers tank car. When I cleared out my Athearn-quality cars years back I kept this car. I figured it would be good to have a dozen or so "expendable" cars that guests or kids could run on my layout and not cause me to have a coronary if they were damaged, and at that time I was building a portable layout to take to a now-defunct train show I often attended. Besides, it is a Sinclair car, and my sweetheart is a Sinclair by descent. She always liked this car, and it never hurts to score points with one's spouse. I know the tank scales out to about 11K gallons and the dome is oversized. What intrigues me is the underframe and tank saddles. Is the underframe close to any prototype, especially one not done with more quality by the IM or Proto cars? I'm wondering if anyone has ever considered shimming the saddles and dropping a more prototypical tank onto this underframe to get something a bit different. Detailing on the frame itself is a bit clunky, but the corner steps, and some of the rods and piping, could be replaced by wire for a layout-quality car. Thoughts? Ideas? Raspberries? Yours Aye, Garth Groff
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Re: Walthers Hideous Tank Car
Welcome back Garth!!
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And in the immortal words of Richard Hendrickson: "The Walthers underframe sucks, like the rest of the model." :-) Tim O'Connor
At 3/28/2014 02:12 PM Friday, you wrote:
Friends,
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Re: MODELING TOOLS - SHEARS
Peter Burr <pburr47@...>
I think that these are similar cutting tweezers to the PBL ones. At $31.80, they are *MUCH* less expensive than others I've found. Peter Burr Nashville, TN 931-808-5125
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Hat maker in Maine
Dennis Williams
Does anyone have the contact info for a Railroad hat (cap) maker from Maine. Do not know name. Thanks, Dennis Williams
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Cutting Tweezers - Re: Re: MODELING TOOLS - SHEARS
qmp211
The PBL style sprue cutter is a cutting tweezer. Several Swiss companies still make cutting tweezers. Most all are made to trim soft wire - gold, silver, copper and brass of very small diameter. They are not designed to cut soldered wire joints or any other metal and remain useful.
Most all tweezer patterns are available in carbon steel and stainless steel. In my experience stainless tweezers do last longer but are usually far more expensive. Xuron cutters are my choice for cutting all wire, hard or soft. Here is a Swiss made cutting tweezer that might work for plastic sprue cutting. http://www.amazonsupply.com/erem-carbon-cutting-tweezer-overall/dp/B004UN8G8Q There are others including those stainless steel versions for $100. Randy Danniel
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Re: Walthers Hideous Tank Car
Tony Thompson
Garth Groff wrote:
Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax, (510) 540-1937; e-mail, tony@... Publishers of books on railroad history
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