I agree with you, Nelson. The banding I recall from my lumber yard experience was black and about ¾” wide. If you unwrap paper wrapped lumber bunks, you will find that banding inside holding things to

From my experience working in a lumber yard many years ago the steel banding used to secure is steel just not stainless steel. Stainless is much more expensive than standard steel and we just bundled

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Bill. Is the form you attached your data entry form for your Access Database? That looks like a good way to enter the relevant data.

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Gary, I don’t know for certain, but I looked through the Santa Fe Society’s Refrigerator book to look for examples. On the RR-8 (wood sides and ends) the ladders conform to the shape noted, however th

Garth, I’ll offer a couple of Burro crane photos from the yard in Saginaw, Michigan taken at different times.

Thanks, Bill. I have some Tamiya Orange in the paint drawer, so that saves me a trip to my LHS. Any reason you’re not using Tamiya’s Thinner?

Can anyone on the list suggest a good paint match for the orange the New Haven used on some of its boxcars?

I bought one from North Coast Hobbies (not North Coast Engineering) in McKees Rocks, PA nearly 20 years ago and it still works just fine. It is ducted to the outside with metal ductwork – not dryer du

You can open the tip with virtually anything with a sharp point – even a dull one. I’ve used the T-pins from Plano Model works etched parts kits and a drill bit with a broken tip. Besides the tip, one

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Here you go, Nelson

Here’s a photo of the Chief Wawatam taken 12/29/1978 at the dock in St. Ignace, Michigan

The Santa Fe would run multiple express reefers in the Fast Mail for fresh fruit, e.g. strawberries. That would have ended in the 1960’s, maybe even the late 50’s as that traffic shifted to trucks.