Looking for an easy project that I can actually use, I dug out a kit I bought quite a few years ago from Des Plaines Hobbies..... the 1937 AAR box car with Viking roof. Of course the next thing I did

I heard there was even a diesel clinic but that's off topic :-) Very helpful, especially for Annette who was stumped on his tank car kit and I wasn't much help... Good move. For reasons known to some

My 1967 ORER lists only 7 cars in that range listed under the N&W numbers 21500-21599. My 1974 ORER shows... drum roll... one car. Oh well, maybe I will just build it as a steam era car. Plenty more N

It does appear to be diagonal panel. As long as it's in revenue service into the mid 1970s, I can justify it. I rarely shot photos of freight cars on their own back then, but when they show up in my p

On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 06:03:47 -0800 (PST), Ray Breyer wrote Sure, not likely I'm going to get there any time soon. Thanks. One other question... the DPH car in the "Nickel Plate Road" lettering, the R

On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:23:53 -0500, mike brock wrote I got the feeling from the moment we arrived that they didn't really want us there in the first place. The menu had no prices on it, which is anoth

On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:23:53 -0500, mike brock wrote Perhaps the lesson can be returned in kind. Surely there's a local web site for reviewing restaurants. If everyone who was there last week made a "

On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:20:50 -0500, Rick Dietrichson wrote Yep, lists all of last year's meets :-) I tried to do this once. Any sort of clearing house for prototype modelers is a fail. Everybody does

I guess I'm out of luck then. The MFCL isn't interested in anything built before 1960. So the thousands of freight cars built before, but in service after, apparently have no place. Sorry to have both

On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:44:17 -0800, Anthony Thompson wrote Then I would assume that the discussion of roof replacement and other modifications are also out of bounds. It sounds like I should be lookin

On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:29:36 -0000, John wrote Glad to hear it. That's a great location and a time when nothing else is going on that could cause a conflict. I hope to be there. Andy

You obviously didn't look too closely at my table then.... a few of mine were definitely in the lame category, but they were there to support my clinic and with a purpose. Andy

I didn't think I was the only one but perhaps I was. Mine were more spread out than normal, due to the prototype photo placards and such. But I guess I did use a whole table. Andy

I didn't take a single photo this year. Brought the rig, but it really takes motivation as well as several hours lugging a tripod around to do it justice. And the last couple meets I shot hundreds of

I pretty much have every railroad-oriented book, magazine, periodical, annual that I've ever acquired. Including quite a few from before I was born. I find it pretty fascinating to look at the ads fro

I have every issue of MM from the charter issue to the last. I can't think of a single other publication I can say that about - of any subject, other than some very short-lived ones. MM existed for wh

Scalecoat. Andy

On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:41:26 -0600, Bruce Smith wrote I painted with a single action for over 20 years, always being told that double actions weren't for sissies. The first time I ever tried a double

On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:13:58 -0500, Schuyler Larrabee wrote Both. I prefer Scalecoat II, but some colors are just not available - although they may actually be out there if you special order. Few hobb

On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:00:38 -0800, Richard Hendrickson wrote My LHS does not stock Scalecoat, but they will order it for me and it gets there quickly without having to pay shipping. The only problem