Now this I can agree with, I was a member of the club where we had one particular member who would continually pick up other peoples stuff and mine in particular, I build resin cars to run and I like

And seemingly, just about every Pennsy steel boxcar in the 1920s. I've reviewed dozens of photos of PRR boxcars of the just pre-Depression period, and it seems as though they're all rustbuckets. Some

Fortunately fellows, our esteemed jailer seems tone deaf to sarcasm when the word "gentleman" gets tossed around. Chuck Peck

Lots of opinions today. Frankly, I'm just concerned that I was almost referred to as a gentleman. I guess we ought to get back to frt cars. And, having said that, I am NOT taking issue with the

Scabby rust would be appropriate for not-so-new hopper cars. Most of the photographic evidence is b&w, though, so it generally doesn't register unless you're looking for itDavid Thompson

I agree with what Walt Cox says: I entered model railroading in 1987, having made a transition from Lionel Assembling an All-Nation box car kit in the Seventies increased my dissatisfaction with

The educational value of Ted's Essential Freight Car series cannot beunderstated. It has taken me approximately ten years to collect the necessaryinformation to assemble a representative roster of my

I guess age is making me less effectively acidic. Bill Welch

Tim O'Connor wrote: "And seriousness is not a function of time. It's a choice." True, but for a lot of the student members, it takes some time to make that choice, and education plays a huge

To re-state: "A small, vocal minority of the Group has said...." For the rest of us: PLEASE! DO keep publishing your excellent articles... in whatever form you feel works best: Bound publication,

Bill doesn't do sarcasm particularly well, but his point is well taken. I've been covering the expense of my 3D printing and CAD work very nicely by marketing replacement parts for Branchline

Guys - Well, I may have answered my own question! There is a great builders photo of KCS #18746 on the Fallen Flags website! The paint scheme is very plain on the car, so I would suspect that cars

Given the "Ephemeral Nature of Modeling" I am going to email Ted and ask him to withdraw my article using the MDC 50-foot single sheathed car to model SL-SF and T&P prototype for Volume Three of

Creeping out of the dark corners again ... So here's the other side of the "dark secret" ... What I will miss about not having Prototype Modeler, Mainline Modeler, RMC, and so many others is

Guys -I hate to see RMC go, too! However, I have a freight car question: Does anyone have a prototype photo of one of the KCS PS-1 40' boxcars in series KCS #18150-18548 in original (December, 1947)

Weathering is pretty much to personal taste.Overlyweathered cars stand out as much as a shiny new car.I feel subtleweathering is better.ArmandPremo----- Original Message ----- From: Tim O'Connor

True, but some take time to appreciate that they have the choice. One modeler I knew in the 70's invited first time visitors to run a train on his layout. He didn't offer any guidance or announce it

Tony, what I said was in the context of referring to the currentpractice of heavily weathered models

Repairing broken cars goes with the territory Ben. I'm just saying that the bad order ratio at the RPI club is much less than the 50% ratio found at the clubs I've belonged to. And seriousness is not

Iwonder (idly) how many of us model an idealized version of reality. Is our weathering lighter than reality would have it, our buildingsin a little better repair or – in my case, growing up in