Tony Thompson observes- Although Tony would blush, this is an incredibly perceptive even profound observation. An awful lot of fine layout builders do not show their layouts to anyone, simply because

As pointed out, Jim Singer, i.e. 5th ave. Car Shops, is making decorated versions of these cars available. The quality of the decoration will that expected with that found on Accurail cars. The later

What experience have the listers had in removing an errant spot of dried ACC from a painted model surface? Denny

Fifth Avenue Car Shops, Box 423, LaGrange, IL is the business that is producing under its own name George Schmidt's Ribside bax car kits already decorated with painted trucks. A LSSAE will bring you t

Yahoo! is proposing some changes in how they will manage their list services. I recall the endless moaning and bemoaning of the changes from One List to eGroups, and then eGroups to Yahoo!, and the ra

This past month I have come across several very well constructed and painted embossed-wood STE steel-sided freight car models whose provenance I cannot identify. The first two are two Milwaukee URTX s

The CSRM Library has a 1909 CBD for public use in its reading room, and for selected copying. However, volumes like this are only available for copying when there is also an identical but better intac

"buchwaldfam" <buchwaldfam@...> inquires about the car depicted at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STMFPH/files/89076_urtx_milw.jpg. This is one of the Milwaukee's former "Cherry" cars buil

"Brian Chapman" <cornbeltroute@...> writes- I will double check tonite, but I believe there is only a photo. One would have to check serial ORERs to determine that more exactly, but a good hard gu

I would agree with that observation. I recently purchased a locomotive for about 1/2 its probable value largely because the photos were so-o-o bad that unless you asked a thousand questions of the sel

The John Deere tractor models that I would be looking for in the '40's would be the far more ubiquitous Models A and(especially) B. These two models covered the midwest, and there was scarcely a "Gree

I have a number of bottles of DDV in stock, but have never used it. I was surprised to hear that it needed to be thinned with turps inasmuch as for some reason I have presumed that it was shellac- whi

John Greedy writes- Bob Kutella replies- Bob is correct in presenting his evidence that the leasing companies to the greatest extent would not be likely to be greatly concerned with painting their car

John Greedy writes- Bob Kutella replies- Bob is correct in presenting his evidence that the leasing companies to the greatest extent would not be likely to be greatly concerned with painting their car

Jim Singer's Fifth Avenue Shops Ribside cars have been finely printed (decorated) by Digital Fox while Ribside itself (George Schmidt) is printing his own. I know the quality of the Digital Fox's work

For those of you perhaps hesitating to travel to Mike Brock's wonderful annual prototype modeler's meet in Cocoa Beach this coming January, I have some good news: I just purchased several tickets (Del

Tony T. comments- Well, I have to say that with the two pieces of Stewart rolling stock that I own, the biggest criticism that I have is the poor quality of the lettering! Denny

I have Safari and Mac OS 10.3.5 and I have no problems with the F&C site. Denny

That all of the underbody equipment is on one side has always intrigued me, if only because of some weight imbalance that should be occurring. However, if memory serves (and it most assuredly does not

The ever-alert Tim O' C writes re: Well, Hmmmmm, ah.... we are in fact far beyond mere epistemology. In fact, I was/am dead wrong. I seemed to open up about everything (OK) but the the offending Freig