September 12-15 in Seattle may be too late on your visit schedule, but the National NG meet ( www.seattle2012.com ) starting then in Seattle would certainly meet your layout visit wants. Charlie

I have a similar question in that I have a F-50-4 flat car (Gilmaur kit) that I'm considering adding wood racks to for use as a hog fuel car. BTW hog fuel is wood chips/sawdust. Charlie

Larry, When I return home later today, I'll send you some of the info you are looking for. As a side comment, don't pay to much attention to the model in MR as it has the wrong ends. Later, I did make

Thanks Steve and Andy. That lead should answer all the questions. Charlie

A friend has a PRR G32C gon model and needs some more info on the prototype. What are the series numbers, when were they built, and by who? Charlie

Would it be possible that the car was intended to be reused by the cannery as an insulated car to ship out canned goods? Charlie

Actually 26 years minus a few months. I also have every published issue carefully boxed and anything of possible interest to me indexed. I also have MR from back in the '40s stored and indexed, but ga

I'm using Windows XP. No trouble seeing the photos in color on the web site or saving them and seeing them in color. Charlie

Mine finally arrived today. Well worth the wait. Thanks Ted and Richard for your efforts. Charlie

It has been a month now since I sent in my order to Speedwitch for this book. Still not here. Up till now I had not worried about it because of the holidays. Charlie

Well Marfa is close, but the big ranch house for "Giant" was built at Valentine about 30 miles further west. The mexican worker village was also filmed in Valentine. More OT -- Valentine had stock pen

Jerry, The Quanah Route book by Don L. Hofsommer has some information and Mr. Hofsommer may have photos he did not use in his book (mostly a history text). The San Juan Car Co. has photos of QAP box c

If you don't want to use the cast rubber springs, Mullet River Model Works sells metal truck springs 24 to a package #408006 to fit the San Juan trucks. Charlie

As far as my magazine data base shows, MM never published the article. I have seen C&NW Fowler models in O scale built with some modifications to the San Juan Car kit for the D&RGW Fowler boxcar. RMC

Hydrocal works great in rubber molds. I've made many RTV molds including O scale freight car parts that were cast in Hydrocal with very good results. Charlie

Ahhh A.T.! You really do need to stop trying to put a saddle on that dead horse. As another O.F. who had to give up my slide rule and ink pens for the pc, I soon found CAD to be much faster because of

The recent thread on these cars mentioned the trucks used were 5' wheel base including the later cast sideframe replacements. There are a couple of photos of a tank car derailment in the book 'Rails t

But a different and lighter shade from the BCR roofs near it. So is it a very soot blackened yellow or galvenized or ?? Charlie

Neville, Don't forget to model some carts/wagons piled high with the damaged and rotting fruits and vegtables that would have been left in the cars for the cleanout crew to deal with. Charlie

Regarding truck mounting screws coming loose --- where I don't have the sleeve or shoulder to tighten the screw against, I've found a small drop of white glue in the hole works very well. And it is st