Bruce and Claus, Focusing just on the PRR G26 (52' 6" inside) on the RIP track it has a pretty nasty load shift. It is now out of diagram and will have to have the load corrected and secured before mo

Tony and I often conflict on the subject of paint, but I most certainly agree with Tony on this little snippet, and we all said AMEN! Munsell for paint and Pantone for ink, where it regards printed ma

Can we stop this thread now. I appreciate the the circumstances that all are facing and the loses they are experiencing , like my friend Andy Carlson; however, how about getting back to business here.

Jeff and all, Let's try to make this simple. Switching agreements between railroads aka switch limits is not uncommon, this industry had them, Bakersfield, CA had them, Chicago has them. As I recall B

Hey Yuze Gize, The delay in the SHAKE-N-TAKE is only because I am not presenting SHAKE-N-TAKE at Prototype Rails 2018, Schuyler Larrabee will be presenting this years SHAKE-N-TAKE and he is out of tow

Hey Yuze Gize, In a message from good friend and fellow modeler Andy Carlson it is with the deepest regrets that we have lost yet another member of our fellowship. Dave Sieber past away on March 30th

Hey Yuze Gize, In my opinion it doesn't have to take a badly fired steam engine to have the amount of crud, be it steam soot or spent diesel smoke to accumulate on the top of a load of lumber like thi

Hey Yuze Gize, I got a phone call from Jim Singer this morning and he has updated his website and of particular interest he has updated his decal line offerings as well. There is a section for the his

Interesting... There is a few off us that gather there on Thursday before we go to Cocoa Beach for lunch and now more so that Stan has passed as he was part of the "Chicken House Crew". Maryland Chick

Allen, Yes pool were around and the yes Canadian cars were in auto parts service but from parts plants to assembly plants and that is what you are seeing in this service. New finished cars didn't come

Campbell Soup had two facilities that knew of one in Camden one outside Chicago. Ironically Glidden paint did as well in the same towns. Both Glidden paint and Campbell soup shipped in insulated cars

George, Most likely a different species like Western Red Cedar or perhaps Douglas Fir or Douglas Fir-Larch as they were kiln dried. There may have been some western SPF (Spruce-Pine-Fir) also kiln dri

Marty, I would have to ask why you would do it to your own work, unless there was a new procedure or vehicle to accomplish it. I do believe that the shelf life of any subject is two years and at time

Marty It did happen between the two magazine we were talking about within the same publishing month of both by the same author we likely all know. Both editors regretted publishing it and they never p

Doug, I didn't ask a question; however, I may have raised some from others. I never raised the question with Bob, but I had a different relationship with Bob than from the things I have seen and have

Doug, I understand the LAW very well and yes when I signed my Carstens checks I realized the same, and while it might have been presumed that I signed my rights away with Hundman I never actually sign

Dave, I find myself asking this question once again. Why in heavens name would you ever try to reproduce a model of something from a $5.00 set of drawings? They ma be beautiful but they are nothing mo

I would hope that they would not allow any republishing of any of my work with out written permission and they will not use my byline without permission. Greg Martin Eventually all things merge into o

Jared, Ben is right out of the box it is a one kit wonder and not a bad one. There was a Sunshine mini-kit creating the Wabash car and when we do the PMcKY/P&LE car in line we will do the Wabash car a

Thanks Jeff, Kind of a shame that they were relegated to work service so quickly. I wonder if anyone has taken the time to really focus on a good kitbash or scratch-bash of it? I don't think a scratch