Bill, The Steam Era freightcars site has stuttered and stalled for a few years now. I have no problem with supporting it, but the mechanics of a blog seem to make it far easier to update on a regular

[infomercial] The Subject O and S scale meet, featuring many scale items including SP equipment and steam era freight cars, is coming up next weekend. The LDSIG/OPS annual meet starts on Saturday, so

If you're not familiar with Tony Thompson's blog <http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/> you should be. Not all projects are SP Jerry

I will chime in as Rob Adams is in Asia for two weeks. Rob has taken over the Steam Era Freight Car website founded by Ted Culotta several years ago. I have to believe what you are talking about,

... Yet, the Hotel sold out of rooms at the special rate. They tried very hard to sell me a room at $165 a night. If I couldn't have found a less expensive hotel, that would have meant driving home

Charlie, and all: I'd be willing to coordinate a blog dedicated to detailed modeling of steam era rolling stock. Not sure how the mechanics would work, but if you're interested in discussing it please

Eric: Thanks for the resources on 1920s cars. Much appreciated by this 1920s modeler! Eric Hiser Phoenix

Micro-Mark's is not exactly like the one I have. The one I have is like a machinist's square with a thumb screw adjustment so you can run the ruler in and out depending on the diameter of the

Micro-Mark's is not exactly like the one I have. The one I have is like a machinist's square with a thumb screw adjustment so you can run the ruler in and out depending on the diameter of the

SPOKANE PORTLAND & SEATTLE RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESENTS RAILROAD SWAP MEET AT HOLIDAY INN – PORTLAND AIRPORT CONFERENCE CENTER 8439 NE COLUMBIA BLVD PORTLAND, OREGON JANUARY 19, 2013 9:30 AM

Jared, Is this the same thing as a Center Square advertised in Micro-Mark's latest catalog on page 17 (items # 82285 and 82280 )? Ken Montero

How time has flown. I can recall when there was wondering over who was the youngest around here. Back then, it was between Aley, Hom, and I, but I guess we're getting to be old men now, too. Jeff,

Charles Hostetler wrote: "I'm still trying to learn when a single ORER line item represents a set of identical cars and when it represents a jumbled up group of sort- of-alike cars." There are two

Speaking of Sunshine, and I may be way behind the curve here, but does anyone know if the round 1 elimination kits are still available? Ryan Reed

It was a rather vague question at that, and I apologize for not having thought it clearly through. What I was really trying to get at was whether the Oscar Mayer cars were identical to the other 1953

I'm not sure what you're asking here, Charles. The photographic evidence establishes that NWX did lease reefers to Oscar Mayer in the 1950s (I also have a photo of freshly painted NWX 6834, reweighed

Jim (and other presenters from PR'13), I did not only list the presenters that I liked; I listed the ones whose clinics I actually attended. There are many other presenters that I

Mike - an excellent job. And a Very Well Done event. I have chaired a couple of conventions and as someone who chaired prior to me told me: You get to choose all the presenters you have ever

You can do this more easily using a center finder. It has an angle that sits on top of the cylinder with a straight edge that goes down across the cylinder and bisects it so you can mark the center

All the cars mentioned sound similar to the Q'Craft single sheathed auto box which had single sheathed ends. Plans for that car appeared in one of the CBCs. Ed Mines