Bill wrote: > I did not realize that The Beach was some kind of competition! I dunno, Bill - what kind of snacks and gift bags will you have for attendees at your clinic? Tom Madden

Tim wrote: "Bill Welch is one of the best modelers I know, so if harvesting rivets from blue box cars works for him, then I say leave well enough alone. :-)" I have a car side pattern Bill did using h

Some Thanksgiving thoughts on recent topics, and the state of resin casting.... 1 - UTLX X-3 tanks: Frank owns all the patterns he did for Sunshine. I returned the four X-3 tank masters to him in case

It's telling that Frank's reaction to the Tangent announcement was enthusiastic. Two quotes from his email of last Friday: "WOW have you seen the new Tangent 8K GATX acid cars." and " Boy do we have t

The etch frets are due next month, and Frank has one of his friends (a well-known and very gifted modeler) building sample models and writing the instructions now. I'll be shipping the first batch of

Here's the photo of Frank's 7K, short frame acid tank pilot model that appeared in MRH: http://www.pullmanproject.com/TCWX%20125%202.jpg http://www.pullmanproject.com/TCWX%20125%202.jpg View on www.pu

Elden enthused: > I am very excited that we are finally going to get an acid tank car. "An" acid tank car???? If you're merely excited about Tangent's neat post-1950 welded acid tank, you'll probably

> If memory serves me right Tichy has some clevises (without rods) included with their K brake sets. You can buy them separately. Tichy part #8021, 24 turnbuckles (three sets of eight on a sprue) for

I have cast resin replacement tank shells for the Sunshine Type 30 kits and the Speedwitch N.A.T.X. tank car kit, about three dozen of each. Both commercial kits come with Intermountain 8K shells and

Pierre wrote: > It might interest you to know that the next kit/s should be [proprietary info deleted] > Proper announcement to come. So, was this an improper announcement?? Tom Madden

Scott Haycock asked: > Are any of these the domes that Bill Welch was working on awhile back? No, Bill's dome is for a 10K Semet-Solvay tank. The acid tanks are 7K and 8K and have much smaller domes.

Tim wrote: > I can't believe I missed those! I was very much looking forward > to see what Frank's been working on. I hope someone got pictures. Frank only had the one acid tank car model on display.

Frank's acid tank displayed at Lisle is one of a family. Two different tanks (7K and 8K), three different domes (Monsanto, Hooker and Consolidated) and two different frame lengths. Tom Madden

Those car bodies are scattered all over north Texas along the ex-FW&D main line, fewer now than when we began making twice yearly trips to the Dallas area in 1991. There were eight in the little town

The end for the DT&I gon Shake 'n Take project from a few years back had that configuration, but had only three ribs. I think I still have the patterns for those somewhere in my casting studio, but I

Bruce wrote: "If I read the specs correctly, this gives exactly the same level of detail as Shapeways FUD. Both list the finest detail at 100 microns or 0.1mm. That said, it is still pretty cool that

There were two different 5/6/5 WestRail boxcar doors. WestRail D-1001 "Youngstown Corr. Doors (Scale Height)" were cast in red polyester resin, complete with tack boards and were 9'-9" tall. Richard l

The Owl Mountain web site was hacked a while back and the full contents haven't been put back up yet.Tom Madden

Clark, I think the undec Ribside kits come with decals. At least mine did. Tom Madden

Bill doesn't do sarcasm particularly well, but his point is well taken. I've been covering the expense of my 3D printing and CAD work very nicely by marketing replacement parts for Branchline heavywei