My experience with re-springing several 1:48 X-10-X steam locos is that it takes about 8 pounds of weight to compress 10 .015" wire diameter springs so the the engine weight will "float" on the spring

A good friend lost about 25% of his layout in the northern CA fires. Not only was there fire damage, the water damage to the remainder of the layout and the many pieces of rolling stock stored under i

Forgot to point out that the strips have to be placed laterally to the load. I uploaded photos to my website. The modeling is 2-rail O scale. See: www.rodmiller.com/images/GS_gon_load1.jpg www.rodmill

I have several ore loads for my SP GS gons. Extruded foam is cut to fit loosely in the car, then shaped for the top profile, painted, and covered with the load material. Do not make the depth of the f

Another possibility is the nets strung over the sides of troop ships for soldiers to climb down into landing craft.

The trees and topography scream Sierra Foothills to me. I think the location is on the Yosemite Valley Railroad. I didn't dig out a book to determine what bridge that is; when Jack Burgess chimes in w

When building several SP flat cars, I noticed the brake staff was square. I presume that was to allow vertical movement of the staff, e.g., lowered to below the deck surface, but retain effectiveness

Good info, thanks.

It is rumored that the big box lacquer thinners are cut with water. For painting I buy lacquer thinner from auto paint supply stores. For clean up I use the big box thinner.

Brian, have you looked at the AtlasO bridges? http://shop.atlasrr.com/search.aspx?SearchTerm=bridge Not as nice as scratch built, but they might work for you.

Interesting to note some PFE reefers around 10:19. Somehow I got the idea that the AT&SF avoided PFE cars and the PFE partners avoided AT&SF cars.

I have several six packs of 2 oz. bottles. They are at least 20 years old. Is that what you are looking for?

[snip] My method of preserving paint in the bottle is to carefully wipe all the paint from the top edge of the bottle (where the cap seals) and to clean the inside of the cap completely, usually washi

On 8/8/16 11:41 AM, jcdworkingonthenp@... [STMFC] wrote: [snip] > > One last thing, by any means, the photo represents an "industry" to me. Any XM > car from any road. > > For years/decades of

As a test I printed the box car drawing that was spread across pages 17-18 in the above sample. The images did print, one concern that has been voiced, and the quality was adequate for building a mode

I suspect that these are a step up in both quality and price: http://www.californiaairtools.com/

Apologies to all.

Hi Ed, I was unsuccessful at getting enough orders to order four or more. Then I got busy with O Scale West (weekend after next). I'd like to get one issue from you. Since it is after April 16, what a

wrote: Be sure to use a non-permanent marker. I tried this with a permanent marker, which contains solvent. The marker penetrated the decal paper and ruined the decals.

Growing up most of my relatives were in SLC, so my parents went there often. I recall going down State Street heading south when crossing flashers went on up ahead. What I recall as a UP mike trailing