Pete, when you open a message the sender’s email address is in the header as shown below. All you have to do is double click the sender’s email address and a popup window appears with an option to sen

It has to be somewhat organized because it’s small and it’s a multi-purpose bench – modeling, computer use, and ham radio station. All the tools are on caddies, and the projects are on self-healing ma

I bought five Sunshine CB&Q GS-5/7/8 and one CB&Q GS-2 rebuilt gondolas shortly before Martin passed, and after looking over the kits and instructions, I laid the kits aside to work on other projects.

Try Walthers 920-2007. Nelson Moyer

I don’t use paint, but stain. I bought a small can of Campbell tie stain in the late 1970s, and I’m still using it for staining stripwood used of wood platforms, flat car decks, fences, poles, trestle

I don’t know how Jerry does it, but I use a long tapered fine pointed dissecting needle from my college biology dissecting kit to gently work holes in cross bearers and crossties. Nelson Moyer

Here’s a photo Eric Hansmann took at the 2017 RPM in Lisle. This is Bill at his impishly smiling best. Bill is standing far enough apart from the rest of us so that the photo can easily be cropped to

While Bill had given some of us advanced notice of his condition, I like Tom was shocked at the rapid progression of his cancer, and I was devastated to learn of his passing just nine weeks after diag

How we hate it when we think we’re through with a model, then take pictures of it only to reveal something undesirable that we overlooked. But without the photos, we wouldn’t know where we messed up.

Not so sure about the infection part. Nelson P. Moyer, Ph.D., D(ABBM) Medical, Public Health, and Environmental Microbiologist

Thanks, Tim. Sounds like I need to check the delivery dates for the late Q road numbers to see if they might have come with antennas, though of course the railroad could have installed them after purc

The CB&Q rebuilt several steel waycars with radios in the late 1940, but they used wagon wheel antennas into the early 1950. I received an off group reply suggesting that the firecracker antennas were

While setting up my new Athearn CB&Q GP-7 241, I noticed a firecracker antenna on the roof. Athearn’s CB&Q GP-7 218 doesn’t have one. What year were firecracker antennas introduced? My F units with an

Understood, but I later said I used semi-gloss and satin, not gloss. Nelson Moyer

Photos are good for weathering, chalk marks, etc. but not so good for color. There are two basic approaches to painting freight cars, paint for a new car paint job and weather according to age after p

Why not try YMW etched eyebolts? They come in several sizes and you can choose one that’s closer to scale for whatever application you need. I abandoned oversize wire eyebolts immediately after the et

I’ve been bending grab irons for lengths not commercially available and bottom mounted uncoupling levers since DA raised the prices several years ago. I use Xuron fine nose pliers. Personally, I think

Thanks for your definitive answer, Dennis. You just laid this thread to rest. Nelson Moyer

Thanks Elden and Ed for the drop-down hand brake information. All of my loads so far would not interfere with or threaten the brake staffs, so I guess modeling the staff raised is acceptable. If I do

I don’t recall seeing prototype or model photos of loaded or empty flat cars with the brake staffs in the retracted position during operation. What was prototype practice for retractable hand brakes?