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Suggestions For Wire Load Ties
Here’s a link for magnet wire in many gauges down to 44 AWG. Convert AWG to your scale inches and you can get close to prototype dimensions for whatever application you need. https://www.remingtonindu
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Here’s a link for magnet wire in many gauges down to 44 AWG. Convert AWG to your scale inches and you can get close to prototype dimensions for whatever application you need. https://www.remingtonindu
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Suggestions For Wire Load Ties
I use black 1/64 in. chart tape for the steel straps. For wire, I use 32 AWG or 42 AWG magnet wire. Nelson Moyer
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I use black 1/64 in. chart tape for the steel straps. For wire, I use 32 AWG or 42 AWG magnet wire. Nelson Moyer
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Nelson Moyer
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Swift Reefers
And don’t forget the SFRD book recently reprinted by the Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society. Nelson Moyer
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And don’t forget the SFRD book recently reprinted by the Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society. Nelson Moyer
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Nelson Moyer
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NP R23 clone reefer
That’s overspray from painting the roof seams. There is overspray on the running board at the center of all of the roof seams as well, as seen in the earlier photos. Apparently, the seams were sprayed
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That’s overspray from painting the roof seams. There is overspray on the running board at the center of all of the roof seams as well, as seen in the earlier photos. Apparently, the seams were sprayed
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Nelson Moyer
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Qs Generated by a Shorpy Photo ...
Plano offers etched metal running board brackets that you may wish to check out. Nelson Moyer
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Plano offers etched metal running board brackets that you may wish to check out. Nelson Moyer
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Nelson Moyer
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MEK Substitute and current plastic cements
Amazing what one extra methyl group will do to change chemical properties ; ) Nelson Moyer
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Amazing what one extra methyl group will do to change chemical properties ; ) Nelson Moyer
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Nelson Moyer
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Terms For Freight Car Parts
Bob, you forgot the distinction between swing plug door and sliding plug door reefers ; ) This topic has been thrashed to death, and to my knowledge, nobody has changed their usage based upon learned
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Bob, you forgot the distinction between swing plug door and sliding plug door reefers ; ) This topic has been thrashed to death, and to my knowledge, nobody has changed their usage based upon learned
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Nelson Moyer
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MEK Substitute and current plastic cements
For anyone stocking up on MEK, don’t leave it in the can you bought it in or it will evaporate long before you can use it all. I refilled my working bottle today, and the quart can was two thirds empt
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For anyone stocking up on MEK, don’t leave it in the can you bought it in or it will evaporate long before you can use it all. I refilled my working bottle today, and the quart can was two thirds empt
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Nelson Moyer
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MEK Substitute and current plastic cements
I bought a quart of MEK at Menards about two years ago, but I haven't look for it since as a quart goes a long way. Tenax is methylene chloride, and I found an online chemical supply company that will
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I bought a quart of MEK at Menards about two years ago, but I haven't look for it since as a quart goes a long way. Tenax is methylene chloride, and I found an online chemical supply company that will
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Nelson Moyer
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ART 12645 and 13657 Reefer Questions
I’m finishing up two ART reefers as 12645 and 13657. The photo of 12248 in the ART book, p. 134 appears to have a long sill step extending the full width of the door and suspended from the bottom of t
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I’m finishing up two ART reefers as 12645 and 13657. The photo of 12248 in the ART book, p. 134 appears to have a long sill step extending the full width of the door and suspended from the bottom of t
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Nelson Moyer
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Flat Car Load Placement
That suggests that since a concentrated load in excess of 50000 lbs. can't be distributed or placed over one of the trucks, the shipper would need a car with a higher center load capacity. For modelin
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That suggests that since a concentrated load in excess of 50000 lbs. can't be distributed or placed over one of the trucks, the shipper would need a car with a higher center load capacity. For modelin
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Nelson Moyer
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Flat Car Load Placement
A while back, there was a thread on transformer loads on flat cars, and there was no consensus on where to place a single heavy load, i.e. in the center of the car or over one of the trucks. I was cut
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A while back, there was a thread on transformer loads on flat cars, and there was no consensus on where to place a single heavy load, i.e. in the center of the car or over one of the trucks. I was cut
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Nelson Moyer
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Wa;lthers Mainline NW-2 Phase 5 Announcement
Wasn’t there a transition period? Nelson Moyer
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Wasn’t there a transition period? Nelson Moyer
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Nelson Moyer
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Wa;lthers Mainline NW-2 Phase 5 Announcement
OOOPS – I forgot this was a freight car group. But diesels are very important, because freight cars wouldn’t get very far without diesels ; ) Nelson Moyer
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OOOPS – I forgot this was a freight car group. But diesels are very important, because freight cars wouldn’t get very far without diesels ; ) Nelson Moyer
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Nelson Moyer
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Wa;lthers Mainline NW-2 Phase 5 Announcement
Charlie, the never done before was in reference to the PA’s mentioned, not the NW-2 phase 5. I was just tacking on the E-5 in HO plastic, which has never been done either. Nelson Moyer
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Charlie, the never done before was in reference to the PA’s mentioned, not the NW-2 phase 5. I was just tacking on the E-5 in HO plastic, which has never been done either. Nelson Moyer
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Nelson Moyer
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Wa;lthers Mainline NW-2 Phase 5 Announcement
If we’re adding never been done before models, how about the EMD E-5 in HO. Yes, I know only CB&Q bought it, but it’s such a classic that surely somebody besides Q modelers would buy it. Nelson Moyer
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If we’re adding never been done before models, how about the EMD E-5 in HO. Yes, I know only CB&Q bought it, but it’s such a classic that surely somebody besides Q modelers would buy it. Nelson Moyer
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Nelson Moyer
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Wa;lthers Mainline NW-2 Phase 5 Announcement
I just heard that Walthers is coming out with yet another NW-2 phase 5, when BLI has already issued them, and nobody but Kato has issued NW-2 Phase 1, and those aren’t DCC/sound or readily available a
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I just heard that Walthers is coming out with yet another NW-2 phase 5, when BLI has already issued them, and nobody but Kato has issued NW-2 Phase 1, and those aren’t DCC/sound or readily available a
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Nelson Moyer
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HO resin freight car kits for sale
Gee, Charlie, the only snarky part was the last sentence, not the opener. Go figure! Nelson Moyer
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Gee, Charlie, the only snarky part was the last sentence, not the opener. Go figure! Nelson Moyer
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Nelson Moyer
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HO resin freight car kits for sale
The original message was:
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The original message was:
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Nelson Moyer
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Railway express agency (was LCL)
My one and only experience with REA was in 1974, well toward their demise. I was discharged from the Air Force at Little Rock Air Force Base and moving back to Florida. The Mayflower driver loading my
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My one and only experience with REA was in 1974, well toward their demise. I was discharged from the Air Force at Little Rock Air Force Base and moving back to Florida. The Mayflower driver loading my
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