I have had good experience with Pacific Imaging Powerslide 5000. It scans up to 5000 dpi and 4800 bit conversion. The best feature for scanning large numbers of slides using magazines like a slide pro

One of these cars along with one container is at the Illinois Railway Museum. The car was repainted in the last couple of years. Walt Stafa

This year at Lisle I heard several people discussing the need for small square stock for use as brake staff material. At the time I was thinking that the brake staffs that I had seen years ago when th

For this discussion it should be known that "Disco" was a processed product made by Consolidated Coal Co from coal. It was not an individual mine, but was made in a processing plant. As far as the Mon

The Falstaff beer being loaded is beer in returnable bottles. The cardboard case had easily opened and closed top flaps. The case and the bottles were paid a deposit and were refunded on return to the

I think that the short answer is that because it is a rebuilt, each railroad's master mechanic had different ideas on just how to do it. Trying to use one set of dies to reproduce all these variations

Glad you guys are having good weather. 816 miles north in Central Ohio we were having to struggle with 57 degrees. Walt Stafa

Recently put together a Sunshine Rio Grande box car with what looks like three doors although there are only two. Trying to clear shelf space because of the up coming meet at Lisle. Don't expect to bu

There was a swell color close up photo of these pellets filling most of the page in a recent Trains Magazine. Walt Stafa Ishpeming (about off just viewed be expensive. produces

I don't believe that "Standard Railroad of the World" was really refering to anything to do with equipment standards. Instead, it was a marketing phrase intended to say that the PRR was setting the "S

Pennsy had a group of quad hoppers equiped with them. Railroads didn't want them in interchange at the time because of lack of parts. Walt Stafa - In STMFC@..., "Dean Payne" <deanpayne@a..

With the loss of Rivarissi, Athearn, and now MDC there will be a lot fewer pages in the HO catalog. Lets see Walthers own products, Faller buildings< and..... Walt Stafa

I have seen a PRR drawing showing the blocking to ship a 16" gun barrel on a pair of these cars. Walt Stafa built the since In that seen that it Benjamin ________________________________ __ | ||__||__

I was amused by the recent Red Caboose coil cars. In the past we had detailed instructions on how to put the car together. In this car there are detailed instructions on how to get the assembled car o

Sorry Tim, there is nothing new under the sun. This idea has been used for several years under a variety of equipment, the first one I can think of is the AHM 12-1 Pullman. Of course that's a passenge

Sorry Tim, there is nothing new under the sun. This idea has been used for several years under a variety of equipment, the first one I can think of is the AHM 12-1 Pullman. Of course that's a passenge

I wonder if Bruce smells a possible veterinary consulting job? By the way it's a K7a. Walt Stafa Columbus they are PRR...wanna bet BLI Benjamin Franklin ____________________________________ __ __ | ||

For those who must do an accurate model of 16" gun barrel on a flat car, there is a drawing in the Pennsylvania State Archive of the loading of such a barrel on two PRR F22 flats. The Drawing number i

The version I heard was, "If it takes 4 days for a boat to sail across the ocean, then 4 boats could do it in 1 day." Since records are kept for cross ocean sailings, this could be proved to have neve

Wow, 5 decimal places on a calculated size of a rivet head. Rivets are low tech "blacksmith items". The finished shape of the head depends more on the tools used in the riveting process than the manuf