Another former subscriber here. Same reasons. SGL

Once, Quality Craft (tells you how long ago this was, doesn't it?) offered etched brass roofwalks, which were .025" thick. They looked >right<. They had a rectangular hole, and I've always wondered if

Regarding Kadee #4's, mechanical style . . . I wrote: 12 And then Denny wrote that the MKDs came out in 1959. That means I was even tykier than I thought, musta been about 9 or 10 . . . SGL

I have this information as an Excel spreadsheet. If anybody's interested, please contact me off list. Mr Tuson, Mr Gilbert, I am awaiting your call . . . SGL ERIE Railroad Company Train List Departure

I think that car MIGHT be at the NRHS Museum just south of Rochester NY. SGL

Put the "rods" through the holes in the floor, remembering to put the turnbuckles on BEFORE you thread the rods through the holes (how do I know that?) and pull it "pretty tight" but not "real, real,

believe this years ago by Southern SU truss instructions. It's way older than that, Don. Back in those tyke years of mine, I built some truss-rod kits (LaBelle) and that was mentioned then as the cool

You, as much as anyone else, Tony, are free to use your delete key. SGL

My speculation was in error. SGL

I was listening to Public Radio Weekend yesterday while painting the house, and got these most pleasant sounds in my ears. ___________________________ http://publicradioweekend.publicradio.org/program

There have been parallel and somewhat intertwined threads on the STMFC and the erielack lists, about yellow ERIE diamonds on freight cars. Still not much on boxcars, though there were some, briefly, b

you've seen It's a matter of LOOKING at the photos, not just seeing them . . . SGL

I agree with those who've said it is a plug door. Thre is room between the guides at the bottom and the side for the door, which is hung at the top only, to pass to the right. I think it wasn't automa

http://www.interstaterailroad.net/theinterstaterai lroad/id26.html Scroll down. SGL

I don't think that one's a plug door, just a sliding door. It does, however, look a lot like the LaBelle wood kit I built when I was about 14. Sure didn't have any trucks like those, though. They look