Reboxx wheelsets are by far the best I have used, in any type of sideframe. I suspect that part of the reason for their success is the needle point axle has a much, much smaller surface area than a Ka

Does the lack of UP freight cars have anything to do with the licensing nonsense they tried (with some success) to pull a few years ago where anyone wanting to use any part or parcel of UP and predece

The "Remembering the Rutland" website has a Q&A section that contains several postings regarding recommended passenger car, freight car and caboose colors. http://users.rcn.com/jimdu4/Q&A/q&a.htm Ther

The brass ones are in stock at Walthers if you only need a few and don't want to come up with a $30 order. The plastic ones are on back order, so you're stuck with going direct to PSC for those. - -Ma

The couplers on my car were a little low also, but there's no way in the world a Kadee washer will fit over the boss on the underframe bolster. I'll have to figure out some way to enlarge the opening

If nothing else, the Special Oxide Red is a pretty good match for the factory paint on the Red Caboose PRR X-29's. I used it to paint the A-line stirrups, etc. that I added. - - Mark

Wait a minute - ExactRail is doing a wagontop also? I don't see anything on their website. Is there announcement out there somewhere? - - Mark

That was a well-known problem with some of their early gondola releases as well. A couple of Kadee washers will fix the problem. - - Mark

Looks like two bidders got into a pissing contest. Not much unusual about that. Notice the sellers user ID: "mr*happy". I bet he is.

How about the TRAIN LIFE website: http://www.trainlife.com/magazines/model-train-magazine-contents/441/rai lmodel-journal-may-1995 - - Mark

Peter, based on the comments I have seen so far, the general consensus is to replace the Kadee clones with real Kadees with a scale coupler head. While this is done primarily for appearance, it also s

Hey folks - saw this posting on another Yahoo group and thought it might be of interest to some of you on this list. I have no financial interest in the venture whatsoever. - - Mark __________________

"And in this corner, wearing the purple trunks and giving his take on how many Angels can dance on the head of a pin . . ." At the end of the day, this all boils down to building more accurate models

As in the Tony Thompson article in the January 2012 Railroad Model Craftsman, for example?? :-) - - Mark Rossiter

There was a flurry articles by various members of the RPI's NEB&W club in the early to mid 1980's that started the ball rolling for me. Not long after, the Storzek Soo Line and Rutland DS box car kits

George, I am 'enjoying' the same problem. I wonder if it only manifests itself in the 'digest' mode. Otherwise, I'm sure there would be a lot more screaming.

Jim, I presume you have gone out to the Bowser website or have tried to contact them directly. http://www.bowser-trains.com/ While it is a bit tricky to find on the website, if you poke around a bit y

Allen, it is quite possible that he is responding to your notes, but his messages are being bounced by your mail server. I have a friend who routinely tells me he is not getting my mailnotes, yet he i

Mark

Ron's Books has 16 issues listed, some early ones: http://www.ronsbooks.com Once on the site, do an 'exact word' search on prototype cyclopedia. Mark Rossiter