Dave, Byron finished those X23 masters, so I guess he can't be too bad off. :o) Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> -->> NOTE EMAIL CHANGE <<-- Sterling, Massachusetts

Ed, All wonderful, ambitious ideas... but has he brought out anything yet? Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> -->> NOTE EMAIL CHANGE <<-- Sterling, Massachusetts

He charges $5 for two complete AB sets. He also sells resin coupler pockets for full size Kadee couplers. They are highly detailed -- so nice that Dennis Storzek copied them for Accurail's scale coupl

Hop over to the Art Institute of Chicago and drink in Edward Hopper's Nighthawks http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/modern/75pc_hopper.html and quite a few other goodies... (There's no Ted Rose wate

You bet... like the El Famouso Burrito around the corner!! And you thought they called it the Windy City on account of the weather! Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> -->> NOTE EMAIL CHANGE <<-- S

Technically I guess they are 1937 AAR standard, but they were built to the 1940 10'6" standard height. Rock Island never had any of the 10'0" cars. Just thought I'd mention that before Shawn rushes ou

Ok, he's brought in one through girder bridge, and one steel column. Kinda 'spensive but they look nice. But bridges ain't freight cars. Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> -->> NOTE EMAIL CHANGE <

Did I mention there's a Krispy Kreme on the way back to Naperville? Mix that with a burrito and you have a potential Weapon of Mass Destruction. Hoo-wah! Tony Thompson quipped: Tim O'Connor <timboconn

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I for one will be thrilled to see an accurate Santa Fe mechanical reefer at long last! But how can we get a PFE and an SFRD car in plastic? Sounds fishy, pardon my skepticism... They have little in co

You guys is all lightweight coffee drinkers. Out here in God's Country we drink Real Coffee. And if there's any of it left over, then we mix it with gravel, and use it to pave our roads with! P.S. The

Tony Thompson wrote Remember that the auto industry was de-centralized in the steam era! Cars were built as close as possible to customers. So the rail share of auto traffic was not nearly as high as

Jeff, I admire your courage at defending the indefensible. I have given many thousands of dollars to Amtrak over the years, but I'm not a customer anymore. I think most people can tolerate an occasion

Jeff, I decided to fly, First Class, on American. Price $0.00. And I've never bought an American Airlines ticket! (Credit cards have been giving air mile rewards for years.) Heck, Amtrak lost its shir

John, models are simply left in the display room. There is always someone there while the doors are open. A few things have been damaged but I have not heard of any thefts. After hours the room is loc

Ben, the first Hydra-Cushion box car was completed in December 1954. Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> -->> NOTE EMAIL CHANGE <<-- Sterling, Massachusetts

Ed Hawkins wrote And Don Valentine replied Don, I think you misunderstood what Ed wrote. Or I did. Anyway, Ed Hawkins published builder photos of GTW #515568 (1949) and #516100 (1953) in Railmodel Jou

Shawn, P2K at 50% off is no big deal. You can get those prices any day on Ebay. I doubt that Ron has marked down the most recent P2K stuff. (I once took advantage of a P2K sale at Charles Ro -- got al

Tony Thompson wrote And as Tony pointed out in another email in a galaxy long ago and far away, from April 26, 1956 to November 30, 1956, the car wore the number 171490! Also according to an earlier T

SP/PFE borrowed lots of reefers in the off-season from BAR. Early 1960's photos of Donner pass show lots of BAR reefers, plus C&NW/NWX reefers mixed in with PFE reefers. Before the mid 1950's, I don't