wrote: USRA DS looking for road, AFAIK http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!C9!EF!A2C637F7DAB0/priscillafink/doc2/ cars are true former USRA cars. The 56173 is a former "USRA clone" car with the 7/8

I have several unbuilt undecorated Red Caboose X-29 and ARA kits and would like to replace the body molding on at least some these kits with their newly tooled versions with the patch panels. I have

The PRR X29 with patch panels have not been released yet. At least I have not received my order as of today. Rich Orr

As is customary, Mike Brock's Prototype Rails meet more than met high expectations. Descriptions that come to mind- high quality, "serious" entertaining clinics, "laid-back" atmosphere (the good

What, couldn't find any PFE fans? <G> Jerry Glow wrote:

I imagine that Sergent couplers would take nicely to working cut levers. I'll have to weasel some $$ out of the budget for a package and see what I can do.

"Coca Beach"??? It was fun but not THAT much fun. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538;

coverage get Was 11:30 PST by the time I got home. I did take a bunch of pictures that I should be able to get uploaded tonight or tomorrow. I'll post a link. Thanks again to Mike for a great

Garth Groff wrote Garth, lay in a supply of Precision Scale brass brake hoses. That's what I finally did. The plastic ones are too fragile. As for cut levers, I usually do not glue them to the draft

Bill, It probably was Byron Rose's flat car kit that did it for me, though I had assembled a couple of other resin kits before that. I did the whole brake system, somehow getting those tiny little

It's an incidious, progressive disease! That brake cylinder chain must be the way it starts! I was so thrilled at the results of my first foray, putting some chain and brass wire underneath an

Where did you drink your dinner - I thought that was a KCS car? Seriously thanks to Mike and the crew for a great meet and special thanks to Greg for a well thought out "get off your butt and build

As I recall, the reefers were even worse. They had no doors to open and reach the nut. I forget exactly how they were intended to be assembled. But they did built up into a good looking car for the

Thanks to Mike Brock and all the other presenters at Cocoa. It was a great meet. Special thanks to Greg Martin for the Wabash car clinic. Bill McCoy Jax

Schuyler Larrabee wrote: that comment). (sometime, for certain!) while I climate . . . .ice skating . . . Not as opposite as you think - never made it into the 60s on Friday & Saturday at Cocoa

Well, I didn't get there . . . I suspect one or two may have noticed (not being disingenuous with that comment). But I was thinking about the event, wishing I might have made it (sometime, for

Brothers, Just got back from Cocoa Beach and want to thank Mike Brock and all the guys for a FIRST CLASS event. I learned a lot and had a lot of laughs--and that's what the hobby is really about.

I'll keep an eye out for it. Thanks Ron Morse ETC all.

Scott Pitzer wrote: "To what parts of the country did these specially-equipped (and quite conspicuously-marked) DT&I cars travel? I have a 50-footer that's partially assembled and I've thought about

Hmmm, I think it was that Dremel tool demo that did me in......