willing to do the quality of the castings he produces. Well at the risk of buttering up too much, Tom is also an excellent presenter. I don't go to a lot of clinics but I always try to make it to Tom'

have to be worked out, to mutual satisfaction, by the Craftsman, and each Craftsman will choose differently. The fact that "this can work" is clearly evidenced by the flat cars recently advertized by

to operate them on a layout? I took a close look at the trucks and the couplers of my cars and I am wondering how they will perform. The centering springs of the Kadee clones are much thicker and stif

My roofwalk fell off just taking it out of the box. I just re-attached it with Cyanopoxy. Probably not the best but I got lucky. It's just as well that it falls off, since the supports on the crossove

boxes, which are a drop-in replacement if you trim the top lip off the Kadee box. I used some conventional 58s with the spring plate, and I used the old style box with the "ears". Strangely enough thi

http://www.intermountain-railway.com/reservationflyers/RF1211HO2BayHoppers.htm I'm looking at the graphic for Intermountain's announced hopper... and I see they are showing the W&LE car with flat ends

ISTR that Timken did actually have one or more box cars painted in the "Roller Freight" demonstrator scheme that has been such a favorite of model manufacturers over the years. I can't remember where

Found this pic from the 1948 Chicago Railroad Fair: http://breitlinks.com/paul_breitsprecher/images/trkn_bx_88_op.jpg Definitely inside bearing trucks. And looks nothing like the ubiquitous models. Wh

Prototypically, I doubt even if a handful of such cars existed, there would have been much chance of running across them on any given line in revenue service. The topic came up on another list discuss

I've now come across photos of two different cars, TRBX 88 is a dark green color with brown or oxide roof and ends, and has the inside-bearing trucks and a "History of American Railroads" banner on th

Other pics of the same car exist with a different billboard. Almost reminds me of a Lionel "Aquarium" car. I wonder if that panel was painted to go along with whatever railroad the car was demonstrati

How come? Andy

No problems accessing it here with firefox. Andy

I enjoy the painting and lettering phase as well, it's when the model really comes to life and the results of your efforts are known. I use primarily Scalecoat II paint, and I've gone to using mostly

You can only do this if your email is registered with yahoo and you used the yahoo groups web site to join the group. If you signed up using an email subscribe, you can't upload (or view) photos, peri

The biggest problem with most RTR cars is that the trucks don't pivot / pitch / rock properly, could be as simple as the screw being too tight. Also plastic brake rods sometimes blatantly interfere wi

Anybody ever try to build the Red Ball kit of this car? Comes with flat die cast panels you get to form into the wagon top. I bought the kit in 79 I think. I get it out and look at it once in a while,

Cool. Just like being back in grade school. Of course I wasn't in grade school or even born in 1948, but seems like the films we saw in the 60s were all from the 40s :-) Andy

The GS style gondola is one of my favorite steam era freight cars. No particular logic, I just never met a drop bottom gondola I didn't like and the GS classes are the definitive drop bottom, at least

That's something I didn't know... did they ever run east of Chicago? And how long did they last? Andy