Re: 1:1 resin casting
mike turner <yardcoolieyahoo@...>
It's just a natural progression of Jim's age. First HO, then O, now 1:1.
His eyes are finally going... :) Either that or he forgot to renew his support for SolidWorks... Jim, nice work. Mike Turner Simpsonville, SC 29681
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Re: Westerfield AC&F Builder's Photos and Lot List Question
Thomas Baker
John, or other knowledgeable parties:
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Some time ago I noted an article about a SOO LINE sawtooth box car in RMC. The article was helpful, but I understand that the SOO LINE historical and technical group published a two-part series on SOO LINE sawtooth box cars. I have tried to obtain copies of the issues featuring these articles but have learned that they are out of print. If anyone out there has the two issues featuring the articles, I would be happy to pay for a photocopy. I would like to do this car in S scale, and the articles would be helpful for such a project. Tom
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From: STMFC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:STMFC@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of soccrdad Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 12:05 PM To: STMFC@yahoogroups.com Subject: [STMFC] Westerfield AC&F Builder's Photos and Lot List Question Hello Everyone. I am slowly getting back into RR modeling after being neck deep into coaching/board member of a local soccer club for about 20 years. The last year I have collected a nice beginning library of Soo Line Historical Magazines and some Soo Line books. And now I see myself expanding my interests because of how the Soo interacted with The Detroit & Mackinac via Chief Wawatam (and yes, I do own a copy of "The Story of A Hand Bomber"). I have also downloaded from Google books a few ORER's & Dictionaries, which are very interesting and informative. Ok, my question. I am finding I want to learn more, and I am very interested in purchasing Westerfield AC&F Builder's Photos and Lot List for $100.00 (covers 1899 - 1928). Does anyone own one? and how do they like it? I have bought a few items from ePay site and when I received the CD... lets just say the documents were horribly scanned in, and unledgable. Thank you for your help. John K. Saginaw, MI ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links
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Westerfield AC&F Builder's Photos and Lot List Question
John Kellett
Hello Everyone.
I am slowly getting back into RR modeling after being neck deep into coaching/board member of a local soccer club for about 20 years. The last year I have collected a nice beginning library of Soo Line Historical Magazines and some Soo Line books. And now I see myself expanding my interests because of how the Soo interacted with The Detroit & Mackinac via Chief Wawatam (and yes, I do own a copy of "The Story of A Hand Bomber"). I have also downloaded from Google books a few ORER's & Dictionaries, which are very interesting and informative. Ok, my question. I am finding I want to learn more, and I am very interested in purchasing Westerfield AC&F Builder's Photos and Lot List for $100.00 (covers 1899 - 1928). Does anyone own one? and how do they like it? I have bought a few items from ePay site and when I received the CD... lets just say the documents were horribly scanned in, and unledgable. Thank you for your help. John K. Saginaw, MI
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Re: Fw: [BRPRy] BR & P boxcar #3656
Claus Schlund \(HGM\)
Hi,
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It appears this is only one photo in a sequence of four done at approximately the same time and place. Multiple views of some of the details can be seen. See url's below. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hec2008007159/?sid=60600cde11707c1a59c498a05bcf3def http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hec2008007160/?sid=60600cde11707c1a59c498a05bcf3def http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hec2008007161/?sid=60600cde11707c1a59c498a05bcf3def http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hec2008007162/?sid=60600cde11707c1a59c498a05bcf3def - Claus Schlund
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From: "joel norman" <mec-bml@sbcglobal.net> To: <STMFC@YAHOOGROUPS.COM> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 6:38 AM Subject: [STMFC] Fw: [BRPRy] BR & P boxcar #3656 --- On Sun, 3/28/10, hbutlerlists <hbutlerlists@yahoo.com> wrote: From: hbutlerlists <hbutlerlists@yahoo.com> Subject: [BRPRy] BR & P boxcar #3656 To: BRPRy@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, March 28, 2010, 1:09 PM There is an good view of one side and the roof of boxcar #3656 in Washington, D.C., in 1917 posted on Shorpy: http://www.shorpy. com/node/ 7941?size= _original <http://www.shorpy. com/node/ 7941?size= _original> Not all the lettering is legible, but it is a nice in-service shot. Harry Butler ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links
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Re: Freight Conductors' Train Book available online
rockroll50401 <cepropst@...>
Thank you Larry, I've been waiting for you to do that : )
Clark Propst
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Fw: [BRPRy] BR & P boxcar #3656
joel norman <mec-bml@...>
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From: hbutlerlists <hbutlerlists@yahoo.com> Subject: [BRPRy] BR & P boxcar #3656 To: BRPRy@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, March 28, 2010, 1:09 PM There is an good view of one side and the roof of boxcar #3656 in Washington, D.C., in 1917 posted on Shorpy: http://www.shorpy. com/node/ 7941?size= _original <http://www.shorpy. com/node/ 7941?size= _original> Not all the lettering is legible, but it is a nice in-service shot. Harry Butler [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Re: Freight Conductors' Train Book available online
asychis@...
Larry,
Thanks for posting this. Making this sort of information available is wonderful, and very useful! The Amarillo Railroad Museum has done a similar thing with timebooks from Mr. Bill Stephens who worked for the Santa Fe from the 1950s through the 1980s. Bill loaned us his timebooks. I scanned them and also put all the information into Excel speadsheets and pdf files on our website. _www.amaraillorailmusuem.com_ (http://www.amaraillorailmusuem.com) . Interesting trips from Amarillo to Clovis and/or Canadian, and on the branches. Also a nice glimpse of the end of steam in Amarillo and diesels from first to third generation. I wish more of this sort of information was available. Of course conductors' wheel reports, such as yours, are of more interest to this list, but they are so scarce, I think timebooks help also. I', waiting for someone to complete my "railroad data" life and offer an MP timebook or wheel report from the Southern Illinois coal fields in the 1950s! Jerry Michels
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1:1 resin casting
Jim King has moved up from HO and S, to 1:1 scale!
http://www.tarheelpress.com/LawndaleBoxcar/Hardware.html Tim O'Connor
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Re: Carbon Black Covered Hoppers
robertb@smartchat.net.au
Richard,
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Thank you very much for the info. It was very helpful indeed. After seeing your article, I had a suspicion the Overland model was probably going to be of a later era. I would say 1960's, as it doesn't have 1970's lettering such as "consolidated data panels", etc. I think I'll have to obtain one of the Rail Shop models instead. Robert Bogie
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From: Richard Hendrickson To: STMFC@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 12:15 PM Subject: Re: [STMFC] Carbon Black Covered Hoppers On Mar 27, 2010, at 5:18 PM, Robert Bogie wrote: > In the January 2007 issue of Railmodel Journal, there is an article > by Richard Hendrickson on Carbon Black Covered Hopper cars, which > has two photos of JM Huber Corp cars in a fairly plain paint > scheme. I have also seen a brass model which was done in a > "billboard" type paint scheme with very large lettering. I was > wondering, what time periods each of these two schemes represents. Robert, the photos I have of Huber cars - one builder's photo and two in-service shots - all show the "plain Jane" lettering with only reporting marks, numbers, data, and 9" J. M. HUBER CORPORATION centered high on the car sides. The in-service shots date from the early to mid-1950s, so that was the Huber scheme at least until that period. The Billboard scheme on the model probably represents a later prototype lettering scheme. I hope that's helpful. Richard Hendrickson
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Re: Kato ACF Covered Hoppers
StephenK
Actually I'm the Steve Kay from Cleveland, Ohio, and I model UP. Most of the western roads that had these cars painted them gray, and the Kato model have a lot of flexible plastic parts, so painting them could be a problem. I am looking at alternatives, but leaving all the cars in their factory paint jobs is another alternative....
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Re: Carbon Black Covered Hoppers
Richard Hendrickson
On Mar 27, 2010, at 5:18 PM, Robert Bogie wrote:
In the January 2007 issue of Railmodel Journal, there is an articleRobert, the photos I have of Huber cars - one builder's photo and two in-service shots - all show the "plain Jane" lettering with only reporting marks, numbers, data, and 9" J. M. HUBER CORPORATION centered high on the car sides. The in-service shots date from the early to mid-1950s, so that was the Huber scheme at least until that period. The Billboard scheme on the model probably represents a later prototype lettering scheme. I hope that's helpful. Richard Hendrickson
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Re: Kato ACF Covered Hoppers
Jerry Dziedzic
I have no opinion of the Kato couplers. I'd take advantage of experience and use the couplers you're most familiar with -- Accumates.
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If you're the Steve Kay from NJ, L&NE would be a natural choice for a third road name. I believe that Champ still offers decals in L&NE's billboard scheme. They're intended for a different prototype than this car, but they have enough material to select from to letter this car. N&B would be another selection. Herald King had decals. Don't know whether they remain available. There are probably minor differences in detail between the Kato version and the prototypes I suggested. One I'd want to check is whether or not the prototype has the triangular cut out in the sides at the center of the car. I don't remember whether the Kato car has this feature or not. I can suggest L&NE and N&B number series to you, but this will have to wait until mid-April because I'm away from my files right now. Let me know if you'd like this. Jerry Dziedzic Pattenburg, NJ
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Carbon Black Covered Hoppers
robertb@smartchat.net.au
In the January 2007 issue of Railmodel Journal, there is an article by Richard Hendrickson on Carbon Black Covered Hopper cars, which has two photos of JM Huber Corp cars in a fairly plain paint scheme. I have also seen a brass model which was done in a "billboard" type paint scheme with very large lettering. I was wondering, what time periods each of these two schemes represents.
Regards, Robert Bogie
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Re: N&W Movie
Scott Pitzer
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=========================================== I remember two educational films with steam railroad action-- both in color. One was about Canada and its natural resources, and the bauxite trains were being switched by steam engines. The other was intended to illustrate the Doppler Effect and it had two or three runbys of SP engines. Scott Pitzer
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Freight Conductors' Train Book available online
Wendye Ware
Hi Everyone
Images of all the pages from a 1951 U.P. Freight Conductors' Train Book and an Excel file of its contents are available online at the Laramie Railroad Depot Association's website: www.laramiedepot.org Hover on "About" and choose "Train Books" to get to the appropriate viewing/downloading page. Here is a direct link: http://www.laramiedepot.org/About/TrainBooks/tabid/75/Default.aspx The train book is by a conductor named J.A. Traud who rode the Laramie to Rawlins, Wyoming, Union Pacific mainline and recorded the trains from October 26 to December 6, 1951. The Excel file has "filters" at the top of the "Headers" and "Cars" pages. They allow one to view only selected records. For example, the filters on the "Cars" workbook allow one to view only the cars from train 15, or only PRR cars, or only cars headed for Council Bluffs that are also in train 12. Tallies at the top of the page give the number of cars and the sum of the tonnages for the selected records. For example, there were 89 eastbound PFE reefers carrying grapes among the cars Traud recorded, and they totaled 4,683 tons with a tare of 2,482 tons. An Excel viewer is available for free at Microsoft.com As far as I am able to determine, it permits one to use the filters as intended. If you find any errors in the file or wish to suggest ways to improve its look or functionality, please let me know offlist. Best wishes, Larry Ostresh Laramie, Wyoming
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Re: N&W Movie
Clark Cooper
That film is on a 2 DVD set called "America's Railroads, The Steam
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Train Legacy". The picture and sound are far better on the DVD than on YouTube, plus it's only $10 for the set: http://www.timelessvideo.com/dvds/americasrailroads2dvd.html The other films on that set are pretty interesting too. -Clark Cooper
On Mar 26, 2010, at 8:25 PM, Mark Morgan wrote:
The Rocky Way and Strait Gate model railroad club at Mansfield Ohio
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Re: Applying Archer rivets accurately on a model...
leakinmywaders
Steve:
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Eyeball it. Chris Frissell Polson, MT
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But has anyone a better or less complicated suggestion than mine?
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Applying Archer rivets accurately on a model...
railwayman <stevelucas3@...>
I am modelling a CN 40' steel-frame boxcar that had its Hutchins roof replaced by a diagonal-panel roof in 1951. (Photo on page 98, Nov. 2003 RMC). This roof was rivetted onto the "top sill" of the car with rivets through the roof about 3" from the edge of the roof over the both sides and end. A little playing with a Branchline roof and a piece of .040" thick styrene, along with a 1/8" thick piece of acrylic sheet to give some rigidity to the roof, and I have the basic roof so far.
A tailor-made application for Archer rivets, one would think! For sure, but I welcome suggestions for placing the rivet strips at a consistent distance from the roof edge. I'm thinking of a styrene rivet strip placement jig that hooks onto the roof edge and bottom to ensure constant and replicable spacing. The decals would be gently pushed into position by the jig. This is important, as any misalignment on the rooftop will show immediately on the finished model. But has anyone a better or less complicated suggestion than mine? Thanks in advance, Steve Lucas.
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Re: N&W Movie
Mark
The Rocky Way and Strait Gate model railroad club at Mansfield Ohio has this video. Came in a set purchased from Walmart. Every time its watched something new is seen.
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From: Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@comcast.net> Subject: [STMFC] Re: N&W Movie To: STMFC@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, March 26, 2010, 8:58 PM Very professionally made. It seemed to me that it was designed to fit a high school audience -- I wonder if it was shown to kids in the 1950's in VA/WV/etc - N&W territory. Anyone remember seeing it way back when? Tim O'Connor Bill, Very nice video. I picked up on a couple of interesting things, like bricks loaded in to a stock car and there was a shot of 86 rounding a curve and a boxcar loaded with what I perceived to be flour leaking from under the bottom of the door. Great movie. I think I will send it to some marketing folks in Omaha... they need to understand the history of railroading 101. LOL You should all take the time to watch this for the feight car content as Bill mentions. Greg Martin -----Original Message----- From: william darnaby <wdarnaby@att. net> To: STMFC@yahoogroups. com Sent: Wed, Mar 24, 2010 9:32 am Subject: [STMFC] N&W Movie http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=3mXo_ya- kAE Lot's of good freight car content. Bill Darnaby
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Re: N&W Movie
Very professionally made. It seemed to me that it was designed to
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fit a high school audience -- I wonder if it was shown to kids in the 1950's in VA/WV/etc - N&W territory. Anyone remember seeing it way back when? Tim O'Connor
Bill,
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