Interestingly all photos I have seen show Christmas Trees stacked on flatcars with stakes made from long wood poles complete with bark. Of course these photos date from the 20's and 30's. The trees

I'd a gree that there is a certain metallic sheen to many types of coke, but this tends to disappear when it is seen in bulk. If you want to model coke loads I have had success by dying Woodland

Clark commented: "because they are written just like Stan talks. He did not included (sic) several of the assembly steps" Sorry Clark, too good to pass up... ! (will duck at Cocoa). Sadly, I have

Lou, Thanks, I forgot to add it to my normalizing table. -- Allen Rueter StLouis MO ________________________________ To: STMFC@... Sent: Tue, November 24, 2009 3:42:57 PM Subject:

I have been in a similar situation a couple of times and found that it was necessary for me to rewrite the instructions myself and send them to the kit maker if I expected to see any change. KL

Could someone tell me about PRR 81945 a box car with a dreadnaught end door. It is in a photograph that appears to be in the late 1940's or 50's. I am looking for what era this car would have been in

I'm about 2/3 the way through my SAL gon that I also picked up at TrainFest. My kit came with the etched parts sprue and a weight that was too long, but no floor. Despite the recommendations, I

One isolated steam era example. On November 28, 1950 a carload of trees was shipped from Lincoln, ME to Unionbury NJ in NYC 164513. The car arrived at Unionbury on the RV on December 4. The

Dennis and Group: I have this issue. What I want is more Soo caboose kits. I have four from their 1st run, but missed out on getting any from the 2nd. John WF TX

Frank, there is a good drawing of the 6K gal. Type X underframe in the 1906 Car Builders" Dictionary. If you don't have, or have access to, a copy, I can scan it for you. Richard Hendrickson

Beehive ovens were still in operation at Shoaf, Pa in February 1970. Shoaf is located south of Uniontown on a B&O branch which connected to B&O's Connellsville to Fairmont line at Smithfield. I came

The picture of the coke ovens in South Wales on the Wiki page is identical to those at the Jim Walter site at North Birmingham, AL. Jason Greene Birmingham, AL If you can't fix it with a hammer,

To STMFC List, I'm in need of one, preferably two, Undec. Red Caboose #RC-8001 Square Corner 10' IH AAR 1937 Boxcar kits. I will pay up to $30.00 each for "mint" kits, or trade $40.00 to

Actually it was for the last of the IMWX cars before Jerry Porter sold to RC. Randy Wilson an independent SoCal mold maker made the tool for the roof and ran it at a molding shop up the street from my

In a periodic update from Central Hobby Supply they mention they will carrying models from Exact Rail Models. Although too modern for all but the "Rubber Era"* modelers among us, they do represent a

Bill, have you called DPH? I saw a lot of CCS kits on the shelves when I went to Naperville a few weeks ago.

Start with ground up schist? Tim O'

Dennis S. wrote: Good point. My observation when I lived in Pittsburgh was that the coke coming out of US Steel's Clairton coke works (one of the largest in the country) looked a lot like

No, because Ron just had my resin kit patterns copied after he bought the line from me. Why not just order issue 24-2, Spring 2002 of The SOO from the society web

Yeah, I should have expanded on that. Pet coke is almost pure carbon, and is very black, but coaking coal takes out all the volitals, but leaves the ash (other non-carbon mineral content). So,