Hi Hudson, An interesting array. It’s too bad they don’t have dates for each of of them. That would be a big help to the GN uninitiated, like me. Pax, Ralph Brown Portland, Maine PRRT&HS No. 3966 NMRA

Hi Jon, Interesting. I hadn’t checked the “Home” page before. Now I have, and I must admit that it doesn’t look good despite the 2020 copyright date. It would be yet another unfortunate loss if they t

Hi Nelson, MV Products still has a website, and it has a 2020 copyright date! See: http://www.mvproducts.com/Model-Lenses.html. The also show a phone number of: (949) 427-7913, and the website has a “

Edited message follows: Hi john, et al., Drawing from your listing of possible candidates, and being a certified (or maybe certifiable) SPF, I did a little research regarding the PRR cars listed. The

Hi john, et al., Drawing from your listing of possible candidates, and being a certified (or maybe certifiable) SPF, I did a little research regarding the PRR cars listed. The hundred PRR Class F30 50

Hi Tony, I can’t read any of them either, but the lead flat in the first two images looks very much like the 200 ton four-truck SP flat (44083 or 44093 I think) shown at the top of the Mt. Vernon Car

Hi Jon, Peter, et al., Tichy offers any array of wire diameters from 0.008” to 0.032” in 8” and 3’ lengths, as well as 0.040” wire but apparently only in 8” lengths. The wire is phosphor-bronze rather

Hi Bill, Nothing really, but I have a very strong preference for Philips head screws, primarily because the screw driver can’t easily slide out of the slot as with slotted screws. The down side of Phi

Hi Pete, I’ve seen worse, and given the price some photos have sold on eBay, I’d say the price was fair – for the right photo anyway. I’d very happily pay that for good high res images of long gone bu

Hi Eric, Have you contacted John Hitzeman at American Model Builders/LaserKit to see what he might have available? Pax, Ralph Brown Portland, Maine PRRT&HS No. 3966 NMRA No. L2532 rbrown51[at]maine[do

Hi Bill. I have found the NMRA archives very frustrating. Numerous search typically produce results not even remotely related to the search parameters. I’ve pretty much given them up. Pax, Ralph Brown

Hi Elden, I'd like very much to know more about that tank car you and Greg saw in LA and its history. I have three of those Tichy 4020 tank car kits that have been sitting on a shelf for some time now

Hi Chuck, Back in ‘68 when I switched from O to HO, I primarily built wood kits of mostly models of wood prototypes. I typically used sanding sealer and 0000 steel wool, followed by the late, lamented

Hi Chuck, Nice finds. Are they wood, resin or plastic? Ralph Brown Portland, Maine PRRT&HS No. 3966 NMRA No. L2532 rbrown51[at]maine[dot]rr[dot]com

Hi Levi, Welcome aboard! I will be looking forward to seeing your photographs. I’m particularly interested in early freight (and passenger) cars, especially those that could have shown up on Long Isla

Hi George, I’d be happy to take a look at the list. Thanks, Ralph Brown Portland, Maine PRRT&HS No. 3966 NMRA No. L2532 rbrown51[at]maine[dot]rr[dot]com

Hi Don, Seems to me I’ve a photograph of ice harvesting on one of Maine’s rivers, the Kennebec I think, but I don’t recall where. I think the photo was taken in the early part of the 20th Century. I p

I suspect you’ve nailed. What I thought might be a three could easily be an eight. Those two numbers are often difficult to distinguish at that angle and resolution. Thanks for putting it all together

Hi Jesus, Looks to me like the the AT&SF car’s number is xx514 or maybe xxx514. The digit immediately before the “514” might be a “3,” but I’m not sure. Pax, Ralph Brown Portland, Maine PRRT&HS No. 39

Jack, Just so you know, “Reply to Sender” does not work for all systems, including mine. Providing your email address in some form, “rbrown51[at]maine[dot]rr[dot]com” for example, works for all. Pax,