Bob, The wood pulp would be bales of paper pulp. Think of heavy duty blotter paper in a wire wrapped paper covered bale. The bale size was usually 2'x3' x2' or similar size... not quite a cube. The pa

Hi Dale, Pierre has good advice... My personal experience... I've had cataract surgery on both eyes so light glare really bothers me. My Opti-visor blocks out the glare. I went with middle of the road

My remedy for the "blobs' is to heat the spray can in a shallow tub of warm water. Then before I spray... a whole lota shakin goin on... :) Gordon Spalty

My question is how would these doors be opened? I would think they would have to slide by each other but the door track doesn't look wide enough. Gordon Spalty

I got my sheet lead at Rochester Lead Works. They have been around since 1883. They are in a complex of "OLD" buildings next to the now CSX yard downtown. When I was there five years ago it looked lik

hey Bruce, I'm a kind- of- seat - in -the - pants guy. I just didn't want to re-invent the wheel when someone knows better. I'll use a kitchen exhaust and have my wife notify the group if I was in err

Bruce, Could you perchance post here or send me plans or picture of your Spray booth. I need to build one. Thanks, Gordon Spalty

Sorry guy's... I missed the closed thread. Gordon

I'm a life member since '77. I have had grips with NMRA myself. That being said I have made many friendships and seen many layouts I never would had I stayed a "lone Wolf". The NMRA standards are what

I have the Paasche Air Eraser (AEC) but mine uses an enclosed cup. It looks just like a regular airbrush. I used baking soda until the tip kept clogging. Turns out the baking soda was turning the insi

Sad to say no serious effort was ever made to preserve the "shops" as a link to our past. Some of it is still there but you need to know what your looking for. Gordon Spalty Rochester,NY --- This emai

Looking at those gon's... most are not in too bad a shape. Same for the hoppers. Maybe we modelers shouldn't make our rolling stock so beat up with all the dings, bulges, bangs and excessive rust. Int

Mike, Brilliant idea. Thanks Gordon Spalty

I wash my trucks with a pumice type hand-cleaner. Paint with Polly S Rail Brown. Works fine. Gordon Spalty

Hi guys, I suspect your mystery pipe is an electrical conduit used for train lighting. If the reefer was used in mixed train or passenger service and the locomotive provided the train lighting as B&M

A.T. In regards to Delano "darkroom art" I don't think this would be the case. I live and worked in Rochester, NY at the home of the "Yellow Box". Kodachrome processing is quite technical requiring ex

I used to work at E.K.Co. here in Rochester, NY. The company has their own railroad for in plant use. At the time they had purchased or newly repainted an MP15 in white with black roof and yellow / re

We get regular UPS deliveries at the store where I work. Our well liked and honest delivery guy said that the UPS store within Staples charges the same as any UPS outlet which there aren't any around

I have used parcel post in the past. We mailed our package from one side of NY State to the other. We were told 10 days max for the delivery. How about three weeks! We will never use Parcel Post again