All There are two factors beyond the choice of setting solution for any wet-slide decal that affect conformability: - The decal paper formulation - The ink thickness and technology Paper: The 'paper'

Per SPFC Vol 4... pages 351-352; Completed Feb. 8, 1955... converted from B-50-30 #109776. In service through the at least the early 1960s... -------------------- Richard Brennan - San Leandro CA ----

All Three VERY clean images of IC steel-underframe reefer 53347... from the NHS Steamtown collection... posted on the Erie-Lackawanna list by HNS Archivist Pat McNight. http://lists.railfan.net/lists/

I see some disgruntled list member decided to cyber-squat on the STMFC group name... Based on the language on their home page... I will NOT be joining. Let's see... 'RealSTMFC' (this group): 1,961 mem

More interesting 1916~1917 -era photos from the NPS Steamtown collection... posted by Patrick McKnight - Historian/Archivist, Steamtown NHS on the ErieLack list; Two copies of the same photo showing F

Another nice 5-photo STMFC walk-around, again posted by Patrick McKnight - Historian/Archivist, Steamtown NHS; These are of an early all-steel PRR X25 boxcar... with the left-opening door. Pretty ratt

Google street view shows the jib crane there as of Aug 2013 https://www.google.com/maps/@...,-72.7438838,3a,15y,310.57h,92.09t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s1I_QsJ-BTM4I9vn0Paag5w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 ...r

...and also National B-1s on ERIE's 28600-28899 series of GSC 1947-built AAR ALT Std 2-bay hoppers. (ref: RPCyc Vol 1 - p94 build table) -------------------- Richard Brennan - San Leandro CA ---------

You can ALWAYS do what you please... but that's a bit counter to the STMFC Yahoo! group Description: "Emphasis is to be placed on the study of the prototype with a goal of producing models of them wit

Mark What Bruce is saying is that these truck designs (National B-1 etc...) were evolutionary product refinements by the truck manufacturers... and supplied by the car builder as specified by the purc

Spanning a couple of days on the ErieLack list... again posted by Patrick McKnight - Historian/Archivist, Steamtown NHS. DL&W Class S-2 double-door 'Vehicle Car"... built in Jan 1907... Chalked-up 'Ho

Quite do-able; It appears to be straightforward. A good scan of the Ambroid plans and decal is all that is needed. A prototype photo source (if known) would be frosting on the cake! I work in vector a

After a bit of an other-topics hiatus, the NPS Steamtown photo collection posted by Historian/Archivist Pat (Richard) McKnight on the ErieLack list returns to the freight car topic... A nicely-lit 191

I think it used to be a single dome tank car... http://www.ebay.com/itm/302363395105 but has become a 2-dome with VERY different compartment sizes; A = 3090, B = 4672 Was this done often? I thought th

The ErieLack list returns to the freight car topic... part of the NPS Steamtown collection posted by Historian/Archivist Pat (Richard) McKnight; A full walk-around of DL&W 35059... a Class B-7 boxcar

...actually, I think there were at least two: - Ambroid Series 1 #10 - Speedy Poultry - the half & half style (chicken & eggs) LPTX 4002 - Ambroid K-13 Palace Poultry Car 'Livesay' - LPTCo 2501 ------

It was pointed out off-line that this is a Canadian NORTHERN car (i..e. Canadian National predecessor..) and the correct build date is June 1908 I need to step back, take a deep breath, and look at th

More box car photos on the ErieLack archive site... part of the NPS Steamtown collection posted by Historian/Archivist Pat (Richard) McKnight; Today: Multiple views of CNR 45432, a 36ft double-sheathe

Gauntlet track? It is hard to tell... but are the right rail and the 2nd from left also standard gauge? -------------------- Richard Brennan - San Leandro CA --------------------

More car photos today on the ErieLack archive site... part of the NPS Steamtown collection posted by Historian/Archivist Pat (Richard) McKnight; Today: PRR 411797 ...a well-worn H21A 4-bay Coke car...