Isn't there a slight problem with Menzies (and Youngstown doors on brass box cars) i.e. you shouldn't see the shapes of the tackboards and door rollers etc. from the inside? Scott Pitzer ===========

Did you put the reporting marks and car # in tiny figures on the back side of the door? <g> I don't know if that was universal... I noticed the Rail Graphics decal in the Sunshine B&O M-59 has reporti

It worked long enough for me to see the larger versions of about five pictures. Here's the plan: If your last name starts with "A" visit the site on June 1 "B"= June 2 "C"= June 3 and so on... Scott P

"Like Cairo (Kay-ro) IL, Peru (Pee-ru) IN, Brazil (Braze-il) IN, Worcester (Wooster or Wa-stah) MA. Tim Gilbert" --------- Don't forget New Athens (New Ay-thens) IL -- hometown of Whitey Herzog, I bel

The two middle panels are wider than they should be, for some reason. And the kit doesn't fit together quite as well as previous Tichy kits. But I still entertain the thought of making one into a C&O

Richard Hendrickson referred to "the height of the Ashland theatre season" -------------------------------------------------- Will there be a revival of "Guys and Dolls" with an all-sasquatch cast? <G

older styled Pullman Palace line from MDC/Roundhouse. I have been working on a few for this same type of service on our club layout. These are an early 20th century prototype with wood sheathing and t

Accurail reefer into FGE: http://www.steamfreightcars.com/modeling/models/pitzer/fgex34816main.html I would think that people would have made some interesting conversions (RRs and private owners) from

First of all, can someone point me to a photo of an Sk-T? I THINK that's what I'm building! As I understood the word on the street, only "K brake" labeled IM kits were turning up with wrong bodies. So

I'm under the impression that a Southern Pacific 40 foot PS-1 box car is an example of someone's overactive imagination! Many "red" box cars had black underframes when new, but road dirt soon covered

(I'm typing as fast as I can so I can beat Tim O. to the punch) From: Richard Hendrickson <rhendrickson@...> "It would be hard to justify more than one or two USRA cars of either type on a mo

In this thread people have been thinking of "horizontal" uses of pipe but I guess the same lengths were used for "vertical" oil well applications. One of the spooky radio anthologies ("Mysterious Trav

On Page 17 of Burlington Bulletin No. 7, there is a photo of CB&Q 39000 after it received upgrading and a new number in 1967. The caption states, "This is a 1946 car but it still has the original styl

I suppose the same reasoning was behind the use of flat steel ends on some GM&O steel reefers I've seen (no cargo was going to crash against either end because the ice bunkers were in the way.) But th

The brass flat cars with no decals provided, or available, are like automobiles you could buy if you could come up with your own steering wheel-- "Oh, you mean you're going to want to USE it?" I was j

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wrong, Elden. In 1953, PRR had 290

Okay, make it 105 years! Scott Pitzer --------------------------------

And speaking of the (Athearn) steel offset twin, I wonder if there's more hope for such a car to join the Life-Like line in the upcoming "Walthers Era." Scott Pitzer ----------------------------------

Paul, Ben means if you try to upgrade your Life-Likes, and you botch it, there's nothing lost. I used that Nehrich article soon after it was published. The finished car (late 1940s yellow sides, red-b

Too bad there was never an episode of Laverne & Shirley where "Ed Norton" of the Honeymooners comes to work for the Milwaukee Sewage Commission-- and operates that cool vehicle! Scott Pitzer