Friends, Most ACC glues will keep longer in the bottle if stored in a refrigerator. I have a bottle of Fletch Tite (originally used for attaching feathers to arrows) that is seven years old and still

Chuck, I just tried to email Mr. Johnson with the address you gave us. My server is rejecting this address for a syntax error. Yours Aye, Garth Groff

Chuck, Cancel, cancel! I was picking up the period you had after com. Fixed now. Yours Aye, Garth Groff

Tom, I've never stored my ACC in the freezer, but I expect there would be minimal outgassing there at worst. Also, with the cap on I've never had a problem I noticed with the stuff in just in the refr

Don, I really wouldn't want to eat food that has been contaminated with this stuff. It can't be good for people and other living things, and certainly could make food taste icky. So how much outgassin

Bill, As Bruce pointed out, the Tichy underframe is an R-40. The "built-up" underferames of this type came in both 30-ton and 40-ton sizes, according to Tony's PFE articles in RMC. I used Tichy parts

Steve, My 1958 ORER only lists one car left from this series: 850141. I can't say how many would have been around in September 1956, but my best guess would be that they were on their way out. Of cour

Friends, Ventilators were quite common on many railroads up into the 1920s. The Southern Pacific was a big owner. Even the Western Pacific bought a clutch of 300 around 1918. When they joined PFE, the

Brian, Ah, B&O, a road that stuck with the 10" IH through the 1950s. Walthers does it again! Yours Aye, Garth Groff

Jeff, Gone by October 1958, according to my ORER. Interestingly, they do list four boxcars, 400-403 with steel underframes (suggesting a wood superstructure), IL 40' 6", IH 8', 2862 cu ft, and 404-407

Richard, I can't tell you if either scheme was real, but the Carnation cars were available well into the blue box era. I had two of them in the 1980s, without the clunky hinged doors of the early 1960

Ben, You got this backwards. It was the earlier cars that DIDN'T have the bow tie stiffeners in the outermost roof panels. Despite its other faults, the McKeen/Front Range car got this right. New Fron

Clark There is a photo of a 29500-series car in the May 1987 MODEL RAILROADING on page 41. The ends are indeed late improved Dreadnaught (banana taper). This particular group of cars was welded and ap

Al and Friends, The June RMC issue just showed up at my local Barnes & Noble a week ago. I presume that is the last one. You might check around. My B&N was pretty good about stocking HORNBY MAGAZINE a

Jeff and Friends, I noticed this problem recently on another Yahoo group. I tried to respond personally to a post, and the computer kept forcing the group address on me. I finally started a separate e

Bill, R.E. Prince's RICHMOND-WASHINGTON LINE AND RELATED RAILROADS has a mess 'a RF&P freight trains between pages 195 and 205. Some are solid produce blocks or returning empties, with many reefers an

Friends, I'm looking at RPC 4 on page 23 at a builder's photo of Southern boxcar 23399. Only a bit of the roof eave is visible, but it appears to be silver. Does anyone know if the roofs were ungalvan

Ed, Thanks much for the confirmation. Yours Aye, Garth Groff

Friends, What Tony didn't say, but certainly knows because it is in his book, is that only 899 of the WP-owned PFE reefers were reconditioned circa 1953. In addition to new AB brakes, most, if not all

Tim, Absolutely. The Hutchins roofs had 12 formed metal battens between the hatch platforms, while the outside metal roof had just 10 flat battens, according to Tony's book. I'm not sure if the hatch