There are very are one or two pre-1960 shots in the FF NP collection. There is one really nice Alba Bloss color shot ca. late 1950s of NP 30603, a 50-ft single sheathed auto box, rebuilt to single doo

stock cars be painted/weathered? Lou, I asked this some years ago on another list with regard to NP's wooden-side stock cars, and Matt Herson sent a couple of scans of rare interior photos that I beli

--- In STMFC@..., Rob Kirkham <rdkirkham@...> wrote: .... I should try the fist paint coat, > perhaps lightened or otherwise pushed toward a more faded colour, and then > another coat to i

Frank, Matt may be right, but I think you can probably get a ballpark answer this way: very few cars in his series were rebuilt in 1955; nearly all were rebuilt by 1970. If you assume there was a roug

Tonight while looking for something else entirely, I stumbled on a couple of links to free web-watchable archived movies--rare footage of 1920s western mining operations. There is plenty of freight ca

BTW, the NP was a rigidly-left-hand-ladder western road. But I doubt they ever copped to catching that affectation from the Pennsy.... (oops!) ... ? Chris Frissell Polson,MT wrote:

Well it mostly works for NP. I forgot to mention that PRR probationary exemption... Chris Frissell Polson, MT

If you airbrush Future, I suggest you try shooting it at very low air pressure, I like 12-15 psi, as with most acrylic paints. Then it goes on wet and self-levels nicely. If you shoot it at higher air

Oops, I forgot to turn that into a question...yikes. Chris Frissell Polson, MT

Tim and Mont: I have made my share of mistakes with Future, and had some satisfying successes. In between those two outcomes, I've found you can repair a botched Future job by swabbing local overthick

I've actually found that on this list questions, even putatively dumb ones, are well respected, for the most part. It's answers, or factual statements, that are subject to gunplay. So, there's a simpl

I have one of the new Sunshine resin kits #74.6 for an SFRD ice reefer rebuild RR-35,36,39,40, with Apex running board and decals for Texas Chief/Ship & travel post-1947 repaint. Turns out I need Suns

There were a few reports posted on this list a while back of slow delivery in response to orders of these resin kits for 70-ton AAR-design 52ft 6in flat cars. http://www.protowestmodels.com/ProtoWest_

exception to it. History is not just a person's We Railroad Enthusiasts are retrieving and preserving History". Do we occasionally get things wrong? well... there are errors in source data. Sometimes

little else. It's like reading a condensation of Railway Age. - Al Westerfield > Yup...so "REAL HISTORY" is more than just trolling up a few facts and lining them up in chronological order. It involve

Hey, I am just relieved to find out I am not the only one confused by this conversation! I'm in good company this time...;-) Chris Frissell Polson, MT (*sitting here wondering there the GN-built SP&S

--- In STMFC@..., timboconnor@... wrote: ... Branchline makes the earlier version ZU eave (aka overhanging) > diagonal panel roof, but for a more refined version of that roof, buy one of t

Thanks Al, and Clark and Roger for the suggestions. John Gilles on another list identified this same stencil on a Champ set BRH-31 for GN boxcars. In the event we undertake custom printing of these, I

NP boxcars relegated to hide service received a simple stencil: HIDE LOADING ONLY in white, plain block letters about 5 inches in height. This stencil appears to be lacking from NP decal sets, and Ric

--- In STMFC@..., "Jim & Lisa Hayes" <jimandlisa97225@...> wrote: .... I haven't > found anything for FGE except the small photos of the model on the website > www.wrighttrak.com <http://w