I think you folks would also like a single strand of the stranded copper wire you find in an ordinary electrical extension cord. That copper wire is about the same size and a single about to be thrown

Craft beading wire is available as square brass wire, 0.020 thick, 4-meter long coils, at $7 You'll have to use the classic pull method to get straight rod out of the coiled wire. But brass pull-strai

Square brass wire, also NS wire and if you'd care to use it, square silver wire is a stock supply in the fine arts jewelry makers supply stores. It's quite possible that our past hobby suppliers of th

Thanks, thats a very interesting shot........ While your find has Andrews RB trucks, the HCMX still had friction bearing Barbers S2 ..... If I remember correctly the shots I was reviewing several hour

Can someone look up the original RR that owned the about 36-foot cast drop bottom flatcar that spent its last years as HCMX-4403 in the Harnischfeger Milwaukee plant?? It was scrapped a few years ago

Not there. This was just a block away from the Milwaukee Ball Park. I am uncertain of the date... Might be as late as 1990. I can hunt up my service record and better pin down the year. Mike Bauers

I don’t think this type of modded car was used for scrap steel turnings. Nor tin coated scrap sheets and bits. Some years ago, where I worked was using those big Virginian coal gondolas for hauling sh

What has worked for me since about 1975 is a standard wall mounted light dimmer, put into conventional outlet boxes with an outlet wired to it. Built into a double outlet box and a short heavy duty po

Asphalt is tar with crushed stones embedded in it. I don’t think its at all common to ship a tank car with a load of tar bonded stone…... The cars contain tar destined to become asphalt once its mixed

I just now hunted. The working terms are 'diamond file' .... I suggest either 'micro' or 'mini' go in front of that. You'll find lots of them this way. Many of the 'micro' are more micro than you may

The thought occurred to me.... Last month or so I surfed Amazon for small bottles to put electronic cleaner into, and they are common and even cheap. They are a byproduct of crafts like the essential

How about using Golf Shop powdered lead ??? http://www.golfworks.com/powdered-lead-1lb/p/LP/ Pour it into the void and embed it with a good liquid wood glue, soaking through it to make a solid mass. G

What I see there is the strong possibility to take any model bay window caboose model produced in the last 30 years….. Even a cast-off old shell… And rebuild it to become that wanted caboose. Splice a

I think just a few years later, the place that I work for, P&H Mining Equipment, made regular use of the same class of cars. They certainly were recognizable as the same battleship gons, We would fill

Ed and guys..... Do not worry so. It is in regular production and after a bit of searching on Google if nowhere else, you can find it in micro-seconds for sale, fresh on shelves all around the place.

I discovered that I had a couple of stored away Plastruct cement bottles that had allowed some of the contents to seep away. I resorted to a very vintage ‘fix’ that I once read about…… I smeared the b

While its a classic glue, its still in active production. So you can think of it as a glue that today’s world still values. For those that would like to try it, Des Plaines Hobby has it for a bit over

I certainly agree that this magazine is nearly essential to a model railroader that wants true miniatures for his layout. I think this magazine was on-line with that site that got mostly destroyed wit

Doesn't the upsetting of the ends create incomplete and flawed threading??? That would have resulted in failing truss rods. Mike Bauers

I don’t know the specifics. But it looks like one of the Vulcan trucks I’d admire in the now older Walthers catalogs. I’m looking forward to the specific answer from someone. Best to ya, Mike Bauers M