I used the ultrasonic cleaner with Windex to clean the BRASS MODELS. They are then rinsed well in distilled water. I never said anything about using Windex with paint or airbrush. Please be careful in

Anyone with experience of airbrushing TruColor (solvent paint) over brass and other metals? Even with their gray TC primer as an undercoat I still manage to chip the paint off. Very frustrating. But I

The site is not well coded, I think. For me, the site is fine. When you click on a photo it is enlarged and the rest of the site is darkened. If you close that photo, the rest of the site returns to n

I hated orders of magnitude. Even 10 times would not exactly be rare. Sending messages out between meetings at work allows little time for review and editing. Dave Sent from Dave Bott' iPhone

A little patience on eBay and you can find great compressors with tanks. I got a high end Iwata compressor (silent with tank, regulator, moisture trap, the Shark?) from an auto detailer who taught a c

Wouldn’t it be better to stick with industry use, even if that was not uniform? Otherwise, someone could say “long” for centerline and “short” for lateral and “roof walk” for running board, if the gui

So I verified in the ’34 Southern conductor log book database. Cars classified “C” for coal included both hoppers and gons. Interestingly, gons classified as “C” could have been empty as well as carry

Totally agree. The 1934 conductor log used "C" as car type for gondolas carrying coal, but used "G" when carrying other loads. I need to check when a gon was empty (we used car number to identify the

Another good one from the northeast is "Behind the Iron Horse: The People who Made the Trains Run in the Bellows Falls, Vermont Area (1941-1980)", by Giro R. Patalano Dave Sent from Dave Bott' iPhone

My time era squeaked in for their ventilated boxcar (I have two kits purchased from the HS). Heck, I would be happy to trace and create a vector graphic drawing of the pre-44 lettering. We could send

Todd, Are there any plans or solid photos of the lettering prior to ’44? There are a lot of early and middle steam era modelers on the list who would appreciate another era appropriate car and it soun

The decal reweigh dates are all late 40’s early 50’s. Are there decals appropriate for a car running in 1934 too? Dave Bott

Mine is 510. Wonder if they got it fixed by then or whether they’re waiting for enough issues to be reported to include it in the recall…sigh. Dave Bott

That is a great article! I just finished it. I’m surprised you didn’t mention the 6” Quick Grips clamps (by Irwin, though there are competitors). I have found these to be everything that I had hoped t

I finally looked at my wheel report (duh), and found one load of asphalt: Texaco tank car TCX #2419 waybilled to Winston-Salem with 78 tons of asphalt. The other 7,000 cars only include oil or gasolin

A little search for my time frame (1934) and my geography (east coast) reveals the “Minerals Handbook of 1935” with statistics and facts like: a little less than half of the asphalt petroleum was refi

Jack recommend extra coarse (220) and coarse (325). That is good. I could see going with coarse (325) and fine (600). I have all four on two stones with one bench and don't regret it, but overkill for

I'm just glad I can attend this one and have someone else jealous...usually it's me hearing about Naperville, St. Louis, Cocoa Beach, and Jacksonville and wishing I could attend. I miss out on the X-3

Fenton, I had the same problem with the old one, until the fire got it. I got the new Chopper with the self-healing mat. Works great! Might be time to replace yours. Dave

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