Matt, in July I flew from Bakersfield, Ca. (small airport) to Denver for the Santa Fe Modelers annual convention and took along four powered engines and several freight cars all in my cary on bag and

John Greedy please contact me off list at atsfcondr42@... Charlie Slater To: STMFC@... From: JGreedy@... Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:03:57 +0000 Subject: [STMFC] Re: Sunsh

According to the Santa Fe painting guide, second edition, cars 140580-140939 were all Super Chief. Charlie Slater To: STMFC@... From: octoraro1@... Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:37:03

Richard is correct, it is eather a Ga-20 or Ga-26 class drop bottom gondola. I have in my photo collection a picture of Ga-20 72090 taken at Tiburon, Ca. on Feb. 7, 1957 an identical car with low side

They wern't mine, I only had cars in Martin's display case in the sales room. Charlie Slater To: STMFC@... From: buygone@... Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:17:49 -0700 Subject: RE: [S

The Sunshine mini-kit for the Rr-19 was not made for the CB&T kit but was made to fit the Intermountain car. Charlie Slater _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: T

Someday is here Craig, get buisy. Charlie To: STMFC@... From: cmfoster90@... Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:10:51 -0800 Subject: Re: [STMFC] Re: Sunshine GN box car kits, # 18.4, 18.5 ava

The problem is he has a lot of eastern road kits he would like to sell, also their grand kids live back in that area and don't forget they were on their way to see the grand kids over Thanksgiving whe

Well Martin called me this morning and he is snowed in at Wytheville, Va. off I-81 and doesn't think they will be able to go any further. He says there is over a foot of snow on the ground already wit

I just talked to Martin he and Tricha are on their way to Timonium and weather permiting they will be there. Charlie Slater _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: P

I just talked to Martin he and Tricha are on their way to Timonium and weather permiting they will be there. Charlie Slater _________________________________________________________________ Your E-mai

I talked to Martin Lofton yesterday and he was relieced from the hospital and is resting at home. He said he didn't get much sleep there. He sounds great and is feeling good and is talking about going

I just got a call from Trisha Lofton, and Martin is out of surgery and in his room and doing very well. The doctor said everything went extremely well with the surgery. They say he will be in the hosp

Martin called me on Tuesday and told me that they gave him a choice of having his surgery this past Thursday Jan. 14 but he would be the seventh surgery patient on that day or he could wait until Jan

It's about time Joe. Happy turkey day. Charlie Slater To: STMFC@... From: thompson@... Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:28:48 -0800 Subject: Re: [STMFC] joining group Joe Delia wro

I worked as a switchman in L.A. from 1970-1984 and at least up until 1975 we would handle box cars only loaded with Christmas trees beginning in late November up until mid December for Safeway and Mar

Yes I did and still waiting for the decals to arrive. Charlie Slater To: STMFC@... From: Bruce_Griffin@... Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:45:30 +0000 Subject: [STMFC] WrightTrak B&O M-53 G

I built the piolet model for Martin, and he only sent the Youngstown doors. Charlie Slater To: STMFC@... From: heninger@... Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 02:43:10 +0000 Subject: [ST

Martin usually doesn't sell the decals from the new kits for about a year. When a decal runs out sometimes it means the end of production for that kit because of the minimum order required to have the

I just checked and I do have that kit and my floor is about .040" short, and I will just shim the ends when I assemble it. Charlie Slater ______________________________________________________________