In a similar vain I've wondered how one can paint a boxcar to reflect light in varied patterns so that it looks like sheet metal that has some flex and give to it instead of one solid, perfectly flat

Based on the few photos available and the even more rare first hand accounts of the few folks who could tell us their experiences, we know that the wooden roof walks of Maine narrow gauge boxcars were

--- In STMFC@..., hanel29@... wrote: It could be that some used some form of clear wood preservative, (whatever might have been available at the time), that wouldn't hide the condition of

Perhaps, I'm misunderstanding you, but I think that is insulting to the many "cogniscenti" who do share their knowledge freely here. If they know that something is not accurate are they supposed to ke

There is a I though of mentioning but didn't, primarliy because is seems that the RPI site is the work of one person and the information is not so detailed as could be done if more were involved. If m

Unless there is a copyright issue, how about putting the photo in the photos section of this list? -Jim Pasquill welcome your input. like

continue Is this called Barge Cement on the tube? Is there a brand name? -Jim Pasquill

Just about every community had small mills that cut "boxboard", which may or may not have been made into boxes on the premises. Boxboard could be any wood and was most often the cheapest softest woods

In an impulse purchase I picked up a LifeLike Canada Fowler boxcar. It came without the underframe and trucks. What underframe could I use and whose trucks would be right? Also the shell is painted an

Good idea, but I model Maine two footers and this is supposed to help me represent a standard gauge train in Farmington where there wasn't such a shed. I knew about the plans for True Line to redo thi

wrote: of Well I thought I was buying a car that just needed trucks and with some weathering would be a good backgroung model (close enough for me) for my narrow gauge/standard gauge transfer yard. Th