Bill, R.E. Prince's RICHMOND-WASHINGTON LINE AND RELATED RAILROADS has a mess 'a RF&P freight trains between pages 195 and 205. Some are solid produce blocks or returning empties, with

Thanks Tony, You have identified the make of a six dome tank car I picked up at the Collinsville, Conn., NOT Illinois, RPM meet last May. It is apparently one of the earlier AHM cars. The

Raymond It's gobbledy-gook, obviously! :-) Many email programs use all kinds of weird formats and your email reader may or may not understand them. I've noticed that Yahoo email oftens seems to try

Raymond Stern writes: "What is this about? Appeared four times in Digest 8944 and on several days previously and generally appears after a post or copy of a post by cepropst. It does not appear to

The January 1953 ORER shows 40 SP box cars in the 88185-88307 number series. They are of "Steel Underfame, Single Sheathesd Z-bar" construction.For Frisco, in the 145550 series shows 988 cars

Dennis, Apparently this German company does work for modelers. I found out about it from the following post on the ACL-SAL-SCL Modelers list. Zsolt is building an N scale loco using this method to

I recently bought two Sunshine kits at the Collinville RPM but I'd like to see how many of these cars were around in 1954. One is kit 17.10 for. P.E. B-50-13 (which I know were renumbered into SP

This sounds the same as the Roland printer, which also uses UV curable ink. As far as I know, Jerry Glow was not using an ALPS, but rather a service that had either a Roland machine or similar. I say

I want to thank Marty for creating his Freight Car Blog and allowing me to house my presentation "North from Florida: Moving Perishables to Market on the FGE/WFE/BRE System." Here is a link to Marty's

Just was checking Dans Train Depot web site and he has a large bunch of Westerfield and LaBelle kits up for sale.....Larry Mennie

Can anyone tell me whether or not the coupler box covers on these RTR cars are pressed on, or glued? I am attempting to change the couplers, and am very wary of collateral damage as I attempt to

Here is a link to a new (to me) process that may solve this issue;UV printing. Here's a link to a german company doing this sort of work. This process can also be used to do a kind of 3D printing,

Andy wrote: I end up using both. After several lesser experiments, I put a full size desktop computer with a large monitor on my train shop bench. I use it a lot, but - you can't lay styrene on

BRIAN PAUL EHNI wrote: Brian is exactly right. Where I said "Overland" brass wine tank cars, I should have said "Precision Scale," and I have now corrected the blog. Tony Thompson

Writing Code...? 3D CAD...??? Have fun - do BOTH: OpenSCAD... http://www.openscad.org It did take my UltraBook about 30 minutes to generate a STL file.... "We 'don need no stink'n

The LV cars were rebuilt double door cars, leaving the left door inplace. They had recessed straight side sills. The car appears to befishbelly. This is most likely a B&O M12. Pennsy took overB&O

Well, if you're more comfortable writting code than learning 3D CAD, I'm sure you'll be able to find a printer that understands G-code! :-) ------------------------ Arved Grass Fleming Island,

Precision Scale also did 6 dome wine tank cars; I have one each of the Madera and Martini Winery cars, SHPX 6611 and 6614 respectively. Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: STMFC List

Elden Gatwood wrote: Elden is exactly right about photos. That was Richard Hendrickson's gripe with Bob Schleicher's magazines, both Model Railroading (when Bob edited it) and Rail Model Journal

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Guys; Another thing that played into what things look like now for PRR fans (a Society magazine in print containing no modeling, and one digital e-zine