Thanks Richard, different address than on the box I have. Guess they moved! Jon Miller AT&SF For me time has stopped in 1941 Digitrax DCC owner, Chief system NMRA Life member #2623 Member SFRH&MS

I've posted three builder's photos (PRR, GTW, and N&W) and lots of information on the new Tichy War Emergency gons

John: The inspiration for these cars was not the Erie gon, but the AAR standard of that time, which was based on a Bethlehem Steel design built first for the Lehigh Valley. I will be happy to

A very late question (I've been out of town): Surely "~$28" is a typo; I'm curious as to what the real tooling cost would be. $2,800? Regards, -Jeff -- Jeff Aley, Development Engineer

Jeff, That's probably correct. Since they would screw it up so much, no one would buy whatever it is you're talking about and they'd never make their 28 bucks back. Okay, okay, I know you're

Um Jeff...my bet is that we'll be adding another zero - $28,000 Bruce Bruce F. Smith V.M.D., Ph.D. Scott-Ritchey Research Center 334-844-5587, 334-844-5850

You're right that was a typo. The cost to "rebuild" the mold is $28,000. Be aware that rebuild may be a misnomer since often when molds reach the end of repairable life new ones are fabricated from

I have a problem with the figure of $28,000 to cut a mold for a K-brake. We are talking one part 3/4" long here. I think probably $2,800 is more accurate. At 10 cents a part profit it would take

I believe that the K brake set that CalScale used to make included other parts besides the actual cylinder/reservoir, such as levers, brake wheel, retainer valve etc. Max

order Wow! That's a pretty big pile of money! I thought that one could tool an entire freight car for $100,000. Are the brakes really 1/4 of the total cost? Or is most of the $28,000 "overhead"?

f.y.i. Somebody offering Coughlin's book on ebay. It's an extremely thorough, official AAR book on the theory of freight car handling, ca.

Went hunting for the "Berol Prismacolor" white pencils today. At my local "Aaron Brothers" store I found "Sanford Prismacolor" pencils. Some of their 'magic markers' had either one name or the other

True as far as I know, Jon. I haven't bought one in a couple of years; the one I'm currently using is a Berol Prismacolor French (very light) Gray. Richard H. Hendrickson Ashland, Oregon 97520

Jeff Aley comments: I may be out of date on this, but the $100k number that used to get thrown around was for steel dies. Aluminum dies made with NC technology are supposedly less expensive. And any

These numbers are starting to get ridiculus. I was quoted $1700 for a "double side puller" mold for a pair of chilled iron wheels and a tapered axle in S scale. When I got a re-quote, eliminating

Earl: While I'll be the 1st to admit that $28K sounds high for an air brake mold, I've been designing molds and getting them into production use for more than 25 years. If you look in the archives

In 1950, the Soo had 4 cars classed TW: 4481, 4491, 4669, and 4799 - all marked as vinegar tanks. I'm wondering if these 4 were rebuilt from another series of cars: 4401-4799 (they share the same

http://www.worldrailfans.org/USA/General/Trucks/Trucks.htm Timothy O'Connor <timoconnor@...> Marlborough, Massachusetts

In the February RMC there is a brief kitbashing article where Dwight Smith shortened the Athearn chemical tank car and frame and added a larger dome and details. The results look nice. There is a

Steve Hile wrote: Steve, what Dwight did is a plausible kit-bash which results in a model that's fairly close to being dimensionally accurate for a 10K gal. insulate ICC-103 or ICC-104. I've