Like Tim said "whahoo yippee ky-ay". We really need a short tapered twin. RPI mentioned a kitbash with the Athearn Quad, but it would be difficult because the middle seam would be difficult to

Thanks, Chet and Ed. Your answers solve a number of small mysteries that had been bothering me, and confirm what I had come to conclude shortly after my posting, that this was a nonuniform series.

I'm hoping perhaps someone on the list has purchased some of these Gold Medal Models parts - they look suitable for a tank car I'm modelling. While I could use the HO version, part 3500, the HOn3

Al, Actually my interests lie a little further north, the OT, if you have a GN time table, does it not show the ruling grades?, the one steam era one I saw once did. GN was known for trying to

Ed, I have photos of 86555, 86684, 86727, and 86856 and three of them have 8-44 built dates and all have 7-panel Superior doors. The two photos I have of the 1942 cars show Youngstown doors. I do

Chet, Thanks for your explanation that clarifies these cars. Another item that has added to my confusion of these cars is a photo of WAB 86694 taken by Col. Chet McCoid in 1956. The build date of

Tim, I am aware of 3 offset twins - Atlas, Kadee, Athearn, and ? What are the significant differences between the pre-war offset twins? Looking through the RPI site, they characterize the accurail

Looks like an AAR standard twin... again... for the fourth time in HO... whahoo yippee ky-ay.

That would be OT/SP&S trains on the twisty part from Wishram to Bend with 1.5% grade they did use a lot of GN power , GN Bend to Bieber, IIRC there max grade was about 1.5 too. Time will tell as I go

My understanding is that the new twin hopper will be a"standard" offset style utilizing the same detail sprues as the Accurail 3-bay 70t hopper. John Greedy

Chris and Ed, The NJI&I 4100-4149 series cars were built new by Decatur shop in 1944, at the same time the second group of Wabash 86000 series cars were being built. Wabash 86000-86519 were built in

I see Accurail has announced a new Offset twin hopper on their web site. I have searched the archives here and found no mention. Is this brand new and not yet discussed? It will be interesting to see

Hi Bill- here's another source for anyone else still looking. http://www.cycloneblasters.com/benchtop.htm Chris Sawicki ________________________________ To: STMFC@... Sent: Tue,

Yes and yes. Pretty well-behaved web site. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax,

Try www.minot.com/champ/. Jim Hayes [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Does anyone know if Champ is still selling down their inventory of decals? If so do we know how to contact them? Thanks: Bill Pardie

50/55-ton Years" as the "1905 common design" I think it would be a very useful kit,as many other RRs had them. I know I'd be willing to buy 5 or 6 There are rumors that Branchline intends to do the

Chris, It's best that Chet French reply to your question to provide what you are looking for. Note that the car in the photo has 8-panel sides. Cars in the series NJI&I 4100-4270 came from two

Actually I have been in touch with John and he is down to one blast media booth and is holding it for me. It sounds like his supplier is no longer. He does have blast media. Bill Welch

Richard Hendrickson wrote: Richard, you're forgetting that GN had a yard at Klamath Falls and could make up larger trains to run to Bieber from there. Anyone pursuing this topic will need to