Recently there was a brief discussion here, which mostly questioned the two-board tackboards. But while we're on the subject, I have to question Atlas's choice of road names. The only ones I'm even re

pilings were for a pier. Possibly, but the Edgewater plant was built on filled-in tidal flats adjacent to the Hudson River. When erecting a large structure on such a site, pilings would be driven down

I think Steve's point was that the (bankrupt) O&W owed much, much more in per diem payments than it could ever hope to receive from its connections, given the paltry number of O&W cars that could go o

The early CB&T Santa Fe reefer kits had VERY crude detail sprues. I can't vouch for them dimensionally, but the body castings themselves were pretty nice. Walt Lankenau

They look like Andrews with leaf springs. Walt Lankenau

What's the consensus on the quality/accuracy of the X26C? It was hard to tell from the posted pix, but it's apparently a one-piece body. Walt Lankenau

<schuyler.larrabee@...> wrote: Sounds logical, Schuyler. The poster might want to ask this question of the Boston & Maine Yahoo group: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/BM_RR/?yguid=158870863 Lots

Here's an interesting example of car usage I found on page 57 of a new softcover book on the Quebec Railway, Light & Power Co. published by the Bytown Railway Society. In 1937, QRL&P bought two snow s

and You might find contacts and info in this website: http://www.searsarchives.com/homes/ There was at least one other brand of "kit" home, Columbia, IIRC. My grandfather had one of these delivered to

It specifies the pigment as sesquioxide of iron, which according to Google, "contains not less than 98.0% of iron (III) oxide (Fe2O3)". I would think that 98 per cent iron oxide would vary only slight

So, they do sound useful! The truly fastidious could cut the rivets apart and space them manually, if desired. Once I built up a Fowler boxcar side from strip styrene, and sticking on individual Athea

wrote: It looks like most of the items are meant for larger scales (1/32 and 1/48), but hopefully the "small" rivets are suitable for HO. John specifically mentioned those, and he works in HO. So here

Here's an interesting product that was mentioned by John Horvath on the B&M list: http://www.archertransfers.com/catSurfaceDetails.html Apparently these are 3-D resin rivets and weld lines which have

What era? Sounds like what you'd see on kaolin service boxcars with roof hatches. I don't know when roof-hatch boxcars began to be used in this service, but they were pretty common in the mid-60's. Wa

transfers I was going to recommend C-D-S dry transfers, but their catalog does not list a GTW express boxcar, nor a similar CNR car. Perhaps your friend could cobble up express car lettering using sev

The website shows ONE brakewheel and a price of $10, which gives the impression that they're $10 each. Would probably be a good idea to change the listing to reflect the fact that they're THREE for $1

UP used this color on the roofs of its early streamliners. Try to find a color photo of UP's M10000, the City of Salina. Since it was built in 1934, that might not be easy. I believe some of UP's othe

The May 08 MR has an ad on page 81 for a ballast hopper based on the MDC car. The body shell appears to be substantially the same as the old MDC model, albeit with nice wire grabs, roping staples, and

Ben and Tim, Thanks for the memory jog re: the Sylvan (CRMPG) resin ends, and the Red Caboose 1937 car. Turns out I have a stash of RC cars in the Spans the World scheme. I had found the paint and let

I'm about to begin assembling some Branchline Yardmaster Canadian Pacific 1937 boxcar kits. The kit ends have 4 corrugations over 5, while the CPR cars had 5 over 5. Does someone make a 5/5 end that c