forever quiet, forever dry (in both water and oil) and only needs inexpensive occasional refills (unless one is an overly extravagant user of air during the clean-up process). Where would one obtain s

Excelsior (wood wool) an Aspen-fiber material similar to wood shavings, used for packaging and teddy bear stuffing. (Not that I knew that . . . Google told me. I was curious because Excelsior Mills is

According to a Wiki article, sugar cane bagasse and wheat chaff can also be used to make furfural. Along with corn cobs, these are relatively light density loads, like wood chips. Did these IC cars ha

And Bruce, the Erie built its first steel cabooses of the design shown in that video around 1941. I should have said, "that Erie steel caboose." Walt Lankenau >

You're right, the WM speed lettering came in the mid 50's. I think that steel caboose is too new for the 30's, too. IIRC the first ones were built in the early 40's. You'd probably want a wood caboose

some anything, but If you have a "frost-free" freezer, you can "freeze-dry" things like wet paper (and gloves). You need to leave the items in the freezer for a period of time, though, as the process

Are you in O scale? Chooch did the 90000 series: http://www.choochenterprises.com/html/686_npacific_reefer.html

The average Joe can buy individual guitar strings, aka "music wire." Some music stores sell them individually, others sell them in sets. You should be able to find strings ranging between .009" and .0

The 2008 Katy Lines Calendar from the Katy Railroad Historical Society contains two images of interest to this list. On the back cover is a color shot of five 47000-class 40-foot stock cars, four in S

is one for sale on eBay under Sunshine right now. Coffman's website shows four of them being used to assemble a Sunshine kit (scroll down to the second photo: http://www.coffmaneng.com/rightclamp/rc-o

It was just an observation. I didn't say I've seen B&O ampersands that look like exactly like F&C's effort, I said that some looked ill-proportioned in some prototype photos. And while I don't have ti

In regard to B&O decals (as applied to the kit mentioned here), the B&O Historical Society has made available proper B&O lettering fonts that have been developed from B&O drawings: http://borhs.org/Lo

refrigeration. . . I grew up in Weehawken, NJ, )in New York Harbor) in sight of the United Fruit Co. banana facility (of which I had a birds-eye view from atop the Palisades). NYC had an ice plant and

Many years ago, Mainline Modeler had an article on kitbashing this car from the Athearn twin. Walt Lankenau

Many of us were happy to see these Canadian prototypes introduced as injection molded plastic models, but we were also disappointed at the rather gross rivet detail. Perhaps the Herpa ends and roof co

of those cars (specifically the CV vans) look like, I'd avoid them. Marty, I believe that preproduction model photos of the CN vans are available on the Canadian Model Trains website: modeltrains.com.

done! I take it the ebay auction is over? I'm a day late and a dollar short, as usual. Walt Lankenau

like to give it a the list recommend There's a nice resin kit for a center cupola wooden NH caboose on the market, sold I believe by the New Haven Historical & Technical Society. Walt Lankenau

I've seen them more than ten years after that. There was also a newer, 'high cube' version. Walt Lankenau

Another reply from the CPSIG: The May 2006 issue of Focus, the magazine of the TH&B Railway Historical Society has a good article on modeling the 3000-3599 Series 40 ft steel boxcars from Branchline M