Good to learn that the STMFC has made the move to groups.io. Per the instructions, this is my HELLO — I AM NOT A ROBOT — I AM A REAL PERSON message. This is also a good time to thank all of those STMF

George, Very impressive modeling. Thank you for sharing the images. Cheers, Bill Keene Irvine, CA

Dick, Photo came through in grand style. Really like the W of A boxcar. I have to ask… what did you do / use to weather your track to that wonderful rust color? Thanks & Cheers, Bill Keene Irvine, CA

Hello Group, This is the initial e-mail per the groups.io requirements. My experience with groups.io has been quite good. Also, I did receive the DL&W hopper car photo and it came through as an imbedd

Dick, Thanks for the response and the information. I just might still have a bottle of Floquil “Rail Brown” in the box of paint bottles next tot he paint booth. Still usable or not… we will find out.

Tim, Thanks for answering Joel's question about the INTERMOUNTAIN D&RGW GS gons. I had the same question. Given the size of the current IM offerings do GS gondolas, which ones listed would be accurate

Hello Group, Bruce’s comment about mixing up the approach to weathering on different cars is quite valid. Way back in the early ‘80s there was a group best described as Friday Night Drifters in Denver

HELLO... IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE? CHEERS, -- BILL

Bill, Thank you for the play by play reporting on your adventures with the creation of these MKT box cars. I have been “planning” in doing a few—perhaps three—of these models for operation on the layo

Bill, I am somewhat surprised that you convert your presentations to PDF and not present using the Keynote software. I am curious about your reasons for this as it appears to me that you are loosing t

Good morning Eldon, This car has been discussed before… Check out message #157030 in the archives for a short history by Tom Birkett, that also contains an additional photograph with the canisters loa

Paul, Very nice! I think I might have this kit on the shelf. Your great efforts have pushed the “button” to get started on another project. One to add to the seven already in process. Also my LHS has

Hello group, Yup! Those Kadee disconnect log case have been around a really loooooong time. I remember building these kits on my dormitory study desk back in the mid-1960s when I was a freshman at Rut

Just 93 years “young”. !!! Gads! I hope I live to be 93 years “young”.!! Cheers, Bill Keene Irvine, CA

Yup! Another perfect example of start a kit bash project on your work bench and about the time you have completed the “bash” someone will produce a BX-52 in a better model than my modest modeling skil

Mike, I could use a New Haven car. Do not yet have one in the fleet, Come to think about it… I am also lacking a Lackawanna car. Right now it is too hot to work out in the garage where the work bench

Hello Group, Going from memory right now--my library is currently boxed away during our house remodeling--I believe that there is a photo of automobile bodies being shipped by the method shown in the

Pierre, Thank you for the update on the AC&F box cars. I am looking forward to ordering s few of the MKT version. Keep us posted. Cheers, Bill Keene Irvine, CA

Bob, Thanks for sharing this photo. I wonder what was the cause of the weathering displayed on the NKP double sheathed box car. Cheers, Bill Keene Irvine, CA

Bill, Yup! Everywhere. Cheers from another Bill, Bill Keene Irvine, CA