Phil Flory must be over 100 years old if he indeed introduced metal pieces to aid paint mixing. As a child, aerosol spray paints were super common and were using these pieces to mix the paint and gave

A little additional thoughts on the WA state std gauge Pacific Coast Railroad (Not "railway). The simularity with the name of the California Central Coast 3' narrow gauge line of "Pacific Coast Railwa

Hello- I have several new Intermountain HO freight cars. All are new in never been opened boxes. WFE 65908 Have one $25 WFEX 73229 Have one $25 Armour PCX 4408 Have one $25 PFE 42672 Have one $34 AS p

Hello- I have several new Intermountain HO freight cars. All are new in never been opened boxes. Offered at $25 each and postage of $16 for one-to-four items. Milwaukee wood reefer U.R.T.X 18695 Ontar

Marketing to appeal to the less knowing..... Peanut butter being labeled "No Cholesterol", Oatmeal being labeled "Gluten Free". Gluten is a protein found only in wheat and cholesterol is an animal fat

Actually, I would jump at the opportunity to get a bottle of these pickles! Something about ambiance. I am afraid that all of today's pickles ship by highway trucks. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA On Wednesday

Ted Larson's picture web page. Might find a few items of interest? -Andy I have several piggyback collections in my Pinterest pages. They do show many non railroad trailers. Here are my collections. h

One other useful method that I have not seen mentioned yet is Evergreen plastic tubing, the O.D. being the desired size to fit inside a freight car truck. Drill a hole of this dimension vertically int

Up until a year, or so, ago I had a saved search for Ebay brass, simply "brass model railroad trains". Now, items being imported brass is only about 20% of this search's offerings. Everything from Bac

New price is $150, which works out to $25 each well below my cost. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA Hello- I have a 6-car set of the released this month (July 2022) Intermountain HO 40' box cars. 45425 Mississip

I asked Richard Yaremko, whose hobby-in-the-hobby of model railroading is flat cars with loads. He thinks the flat car closest to the lens is a CB&Q car. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA On Wednesday, August 3,

This 10 wheeler truck, thought by some at first to be a cab over, has interesting wheel combinations. I suspect that it was built as a 6 wheeler, with Dayton spoked wheels, with an additional rear axl

Hello- I have a 6-car set of the released this month (July 2022) Intermountain HO 40' box cars. 45425 Mississippi Central 45426 Port Huron & Detroit 45427 Central RR of NJ 45428 45429 Lake Superior &

Has been sold. Thanks, -Andy Carlson Oai CA On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 09:57:12 AM PDT, Andy Carlson <midcentury@...> wrote: Hello- I have a 4-car set of the released this month (July 2022)

Hello- I have a 4-car set of the released this month (July 2022) Intermountain HO 40' PS-1 Santa Fe box cars. IMRC has 4 cars in this new release: 45403 Chief 45430 Grand Canyon 45431 El Capitan 45432

The CN and CP accounted for about 10K of these cars. The 3'6" IH car was about 4500 for one of the Canadian cars and the 4'0"IH car accounted for 500 cars. The reverse ratio was correct for the other

Bill did not own Red Caboose. He ran it for a non-involved owner whose directions to Bill was simply "don't lose money". When that rule came across these losses RC was bleeding, the decision to cut ba

Bill told me that the economic hit the on-the-ropes Red Caboose got was from the money spent upgrading the former Front Range 40' box cars. The sales were way below expectations and I would wager that

Tim- Before the huge rush to model a 3000-3499 series of GN DD 40' boxcar with the McKean DD car, consider this--that series of cars has a 15' door opening, which has its 8 riveted panels narrower tha

This car is the Mckeen Models 40' DD box car. Diagonal panel roof, "banana taper" Dreadnaught end and twin 6' IYSD with a door post centered between the L & R doors. Those ends indicate at least a 195