HEY! How'd you get in my basement? Craig Zeni Cary NC

Those of you who didn't know Richard missed a treat. He was wry, sharp, and was perfectly happy to share that knowledge with anybody that asked of him. At Cocoa Beach he was always in conversations wi

Mark/Don, you'd probably be surprised at the way juices are processed, stored and shipped. Logic from those outside the industry doesn't really apply. For a sense of scale, the Trop plant at Bradenton

Is there any evidence that prior to their insulated/mechanical cars of the late 1960s that Trop used ice reefers? Bill Welch indicated to me that he thought Trop used FGEX cars; a friend in Lakeland F

The US equiv is P87 aka Proto 87...true 1.87th scale wheel with scale tread and flange. Finicky? No. But they do require exacting standards of trackwork to run P4 wheels (18.83mm gauge). I visited a f

Decals, yes. Kits - well I've had a 0% fill rate on my last two attempts where I'd ordered about ten kits and provided alternates for many of them. Sadly I think that it is, for all intents and purpos

NYNY&H 34406 is a Pullman Standard build from 1948 (the car's stenciled that way). But...why the star by the number? And note it's on the end number as well. Craig Zeni Cary NC

<snip> I strongly agree with this. In fact, I'd pay the same for an unassembled decorated car as for an assembled car...as I know I will do a better assembly job than what I see on 95% of Chinese-asse

FWIW the RS-2 wears the same livery as the Atlantic & Danville RS-2s...but I doubt it's on the A&D...Danville VA is not that flat and I don't think that the other end of the railroad in Norfolk. I see

This works. My other test is if the sheet has film across the entire paper I'll cut off a corner that's just clear film and give it a test soak. If it holds together that's usually a reliable indicato

I have some NYO&W decals that were custom made by Mal Houck back in the early 1980s that have the yellow stripes for the diesels. He told me the color was matched to Accupaint's Light Imitation Gold..

A word of caution on testing strippers - I bodged a paint job on a Smoky Mountain Model Works Tennessee Central box car. Into the Chameleon it went...the body casting had no issues but the resin doors

New York, Ontario & Western. Lots of small to medium steam engines (biggest was a class of 4-8-2s built with the NYC L2s) but mostly consolidations, camel backs (double cabs in O&W parlance), ten whee

If I have excessive Couplerus Limpus I will glue a strip of styrene across the lower part of the draft gear opening to support the coupler. That strip is typical .010" thick. Paint it the color of the

Steve, I've had decals on order from Jerry since August of last year. He is not answering emails. He has not returned my money. And I am not alone...there's multiple folks here on the STMFC with simil

On Jun 13, 2013, at 9:47 PM, STMFC@... wrote:___________ Indeed - I picked that up from your clinics at Cocoa :) though I'm still using Tony's acrylic washes for weathering. I'm modeling c

I'd like to offer this photo from September 1958 in Buford, Wyoming. Some very weathered cars, a couple not so much. My favorite is the NS Rwy car in front of the ACL car... http://preview.tinyurl.com

I usually build my resin box cars with the floor removable and secured to the body with blocks of 1/4" styrene and some 0-80 screws. None of us have ever had weights come loose in cars, have we? :) Th

And I as well, back to July of last year... Craig Zeni Cary NC

How are others doing it on cars? It's often pretty conspicuous and I like to model it...been using stray bits of repack data to do it, figuring that if my friends are reading it that closely that I ne