I use the small dead twigs still on the branches of white pine trees. http://southern-railway.railfan.net/ay/models/pulpracks01.jpg I cut mine so they are scale 5’ and the two stacks slant in towards

Thanks. That is nice. I like the open door so you can see the detail. An aside: I’m just in Chapter 4 of Tony’s book (this is as good as or better writing and detail, and almost as comprehensive as Ka

Price is one reason. I recently bought a replacement piece of glass and a countertop for our fire restoration. I tried to get the sink cutout from countertop, but it wasn't whole and the pieces were i

My favorite tool for this flash removal is the DuoSharp diamond bench stone that Jack Burgess mentioned (I think, I give him credit for many high quality tool recommendations due to his MRH column). I

I bought on eBay for reasonable price. I first got it to repair my shoe. Sent from Dave Bott's iPad

Or you should share your photos with the rest of us ;-) Dave Bott

Checking all my resources (not all, but all mine), it's not an N&W box car. I can find SS with the truss pattern and 5-5-5 ends, but none with the fish belly side sills. Pierre, how many pieces in tha

From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] Sent: Friday, June 10, 2016 11:34 AM It looks a lot like that NKP car in the Shorpy photo someone posted here last year... but with that heav

I think Jim's plea is a good one. In my historical and sociological research, we avoid the idea of a single universal "correct term" to end this particular form of debate. Instead, we specify usage by

I used a loud Sears 12 gallon tank compressor for years. I’d run it during the day and fill the tank, then spray a car or two at night with the compressor switched off so it didn’t wake the neighbors.

Jack, Even with a little MEK in the bottle, it disappears so fast from evaporation that I felt like I was always refilling. And occasionally the tiny tube gets clogged if my ham-handedness pushes it i

Sent from Dave Bott's iPad PDF is larger file but easiest. ePub is more compressed and fairly universal. Kindle requires app or device (I read on iPad with app). AABBY is a program the converts a scan

And with that many boxcars in service between 1916 and 1955, why don't we have a good plastic model of them again? Is it because of the Southern's gross green locomotives, zero public relations, horri

Well done! And though I don't model your time period, it is a great framework for my own use of ORERs in 1934. I'm wondering if your Excel index would be close enough for me to save keying a lot on he

Westerfield has 1935: https://id18538.securedata.net/westerfieldmodels.com/merchantmanager/product_info.php?products_id=1013 Sent from Dave Bott' iPhone

Human error, sentimentality, or greed? Sent from Dave Bott' iPhone

Sent from Dave Bott's iPad Not sure you were directing your comment to original poster or Pierre, but Pierre is in Canada and was commenting on correct cause for the problem, not a suggested solution.

Albion...another name for England.... The English and the Americans, people divided by a common language. Stockists are people who stock things and sell them there, just like suppliers supply things t

Only some early 20's passenger train books with less detail survived intact. But I had already scanned the rest in fairly high resolution, saved into PDFs, and shared them with several people, notably

You've given me a model for sharing my Southern Railway 1934 train info! Right now it is still PDF scans and a growing Excel spreadsheet. I can easily convert to html tables. Dave Sent from Dave Bott'