Maybe the new owners of Grandt Line will be willing to repair the tooling on their AB brake set. For my money it is the best detailed around. Bill Welch

The AB brake set Pierre refers to was tooled by Grandt Line and packaged by both GL and DA. Bill Welch

As I noted recently Ryan Mendell's "Machinist Hand Tools Clinic: Part One" can be expensive‚ LOL. Reminder he will be doing at Lisle/Chicagoland nest. I decided to go with a Mitutoyo Digital caliper a

I am pretty sure at that price those are the counterfeits people are complaining about in the Amazon reviews for the one I ordered: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IG46NL2?ref=ppx_pt2_dt_b_prod_i

$900 on ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Cameron-Precision-Drill-Press-Watchmaker/283500490685?hash=item4201f22fbd:g:nPkAAOSwywtc7uGb There is also a used Dayton on eBay Bill Welch

I am considering buying a Mitutoyo from Amazon. One can tell from some of the questions there for the product that there has been problems w/counterfeits but it is easy to return things with Amazon an

Apologies for the misspellings, should read: "Machinist Tools For Modeling, Part 1 - Hand Tools" Clinic at recent NERPMBill Welch Bill Welch

Among the clinics I attended at the recent the NERPM, the most expensive was the one presented by Ryan Mendell, "Machinist Tools For Modellng, Part 1 - Hand Tools." In just two days I have spent about

Just a thought. Westerfield offers kits of these cars and others w/choice of eras and brake systems: https://id18538.securedata.net/westerfieldmodels.com/merchantmanager/index.php?cPath=99_370 Catch o

Reporting from the NERPM, Rapido displaying USRA double sheathed boxcar. Also spotted four different boxcar red gloss paints in their line of paints. -30- Bill Welch

I hope some enterprising person on this list will use Bruce's drawings from his article and offer the photo-etched parts for the PRR decking. Please announce here if someone does decide to do these. B

No 1948 but Westerfield site shows both 1945 and 1950 available as a DVD. Bill Welch

Date from the Home page: https://realstmfc.groups.io/g/main Bill Welch

Sorry some folks have such little respect for our fine hobby. Bill Welch

I am working on two Westy Classics, ATST Bx-11 and Bx-12 with raised roof. The 1955 photo I have of a Bx-11 shows the corner rods still in place. I wanted these to have relief or stand away for the si

Didn't cabooses have lights on them? Bill Welch

Thank you for sharing this Elden. I cannot figure out how to send you a message from this site. Can you please email me at fgexbill(at)tampabay.rr.com as I have something I want to share with you. Bil

Here is my attempt to model a Hutchins roof using the very basic roof F&C provides w/its sweet little D&H boxcar. I began by blackening the ends of the roof ribs to create contrast when I carve into t

Eric you missed this group of 100 cars, only SS 50-footers built by a southeastern RR AFAIK: http://archive.nmra.org/Photographs.aspx?c=118&i=23478&PageIndex=0&rm=165 This photo appears in the Kline/C

Indeed Tom yes the classic and in its time the ubiquitous Hutchins roof. Bill Welch