Did not NWSL offer a flywheel chassis that could be used with an Athern box car to simulate train momentum?

Yeah, not quite sure what the current, real quality of digital is, (short of a $3,000.00 digital camera, etc.), but it looks like the "old" print system is definitely on the way out. I used to develop

Beckert, Shawn wrote: If you're getting your photos printed at a minilab, you're already getting digital prints. All the modern minilabs scan the negs and then print digitally to photo paper. This

Guys, This article is taken from USA Today. You might want to take a look: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2005-08-25-kodak-cuts_x.htm The freight car connection should be

I can just imagine the stories from the steep-incline, multiple- grade, multiple switch-back logging railroads, about these "Double- Dutch-Drops", IE); "Yeah, one day we tried a triple,

Non-roller bearings were labor intensive with the checking and adding of lubrication. With higher labor rates and lower parts cost, the break-even point favored roller bearings. Roller bearings also

Thomas M. Olsen wrote: And Westerfield has told us he went once and isn't going again. So Springfield isn't exactly presenting "all the big resin producers." Tony Thompson Editor,

This is a "drop". The "Dutch Drop" has the loco speed ahead, throw a switch, then loco REVERSES and goes hidey-hole into the spur, switch thrown again, and car rolls past. Its that reversing that gets

My thoughts were motorized momentum in the cars, or flywheel driven momentum in the cars. DCC is too much for individual cars when it is possible to simply (yeah, right!) have the car sense its own

More like the application of fuel prices and safety issues (i.e., liability claims) that moved railroads to roller bearings. Fuel at the time that article was written (1903) was virtually a zero

Canadian Pacific had an interesting "double dutch drop??" in Kaslo and probably one of the longest movements of tat type. The inbound train left the van on the mainline with brake on as it was an

Just a note to let people know that they can call me at home today, Friday, if they have any questions about the informal gathering I am hosting tomorrow at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation

Tony Thompson wrote; Looking into roller bearing history, Timken was selling roller bearings for horse-drawn equipment in 1893. Their bearings were incorporated into automobiles quite early,

The Dutch drop is not inherently unsafe, just a bit trickier than a simple drop or a kick. The trick is to keep the moving dropped car's velocity low, or perhaps have a slight grade to assist and

Mike Brock wrote; "I will also add that weather and climate...unless closely associated with frt cars...is out of scope." ************************************************************ Mike, That's

Tim O'Connor wrote: "I don't need to point this out to most of you, but not ALL of the best modelers in the country are into the "RPM scene". There are many fabulous models on display at Springfield

Chet French said: "A "Dutch drop" is when the engine changes directions to get in the clear, during the move. Usually the dutch drop was made where gravity would lend a helping hand with a slight

Gerard, The dates are Thursday, October 27th through Sunday Morning, October 30th. Tom Olsen Newark, Delaware, 19711-7479 Gerard J Fitzgerald wrote:

Springfield may have a waiting list of vendors, but they when they finally select a vendor to fill a spot, apparently they won't guarantee the table space until the vendor arrives to set up. Martin

OK, so it's a little cold in January in Springfield. Maybe. My sister called me a few days ago from North Carolina, and mentioned that the temperature was going to be over 100 for the fourth day in