I've used Dullcote, but what I have used for years, and I have enough that I will probably never have to use anything else, is McDonalds Flat Photo Lacquer. I bought (a gallon!!!) of this in a wholesa

Wrote Ted Culotta: reason other an offering to buy "x" employees, etc. It is have heard, sells (or the heard that for the relationship. can present model as Backed up by the fact that Overland has ven

Right, Norm, I can confirm that Salem location. The spur off the Eastern (B&M) main was north of the junction, and went (almost invisibly) through a cut and under a bridge on Rte 1A to the dock, not f

rules in Assuming equal sized coal would a faster base here? I can't find the reference book I want, but I think you're at least in a rundown between first and second . . . The usual formulas relating

Or an email to get to him. Sorry for the bandwidth. TIA SGL

I can't speak to the specifics of this particular car, but a MILW-assigned car on the ERIE doesn't surprise me much, as even in those days (as opposed to after the end of time on this list) there was

Steam freight cars ran on tracks which were maintained by trains using freight cars. Now that that's taken care of, does anybody here have a copy of a Simmons Boardman Maintenance of Way Cyclopedia? I

Ed Mines asks, regarding George Elwood's Fallen Flags site: era freight files. I cars. George posts what he gets given to him. It's amazing what people have given him, and to some degree WHO has given

Pete Brown and 'Bob' Crispen have been discussing the Lookout utility offered (or not, as the case sometimes is) by Microsoft which allows you to search your own computer. I downloaded the Google alte

So, what color do the old style 78's come in, so I can figure out when the new style are in stock? Of course, by doing that, the old stock will be in stock for quite a while . . . The shops I've been

Yes, that is interesting. It looks to me like overlaid? steel? bars on the side. The fasteners at the bottom of the side at each vertical piece lend to that impression. They >could< also be thicker, a

A while back we had a thread on tools, started with tweezers, I think. Sometimes you have to look at stuff with more than one mindset. I was seeking toothpicks (for mixing up epoxy to use on steam era

Thanks for the note. They come assembled? That's interesting. Assembling Kadees and getting them to work right (which I insist on, since my operations job at the Club is operating the main yard) takes

Were/are any of them good for the C&O triple in the most recent issue of Mainline? SGL

October 04 MM, but it appears to be a "Part 2" of an article that started in the ?September? issue. I find myself rather fascinated with the covered hopper version in the October issue. SGL