Had a nice surprise this morning. Quite a while ba back I was working on a model of the Pnnsylvania X31c auto car. Folks on this list were gracious and helpful in providing information on the chain tu

I see that Resin Car Works is shipping the new Western Pacific PFE kits. I guess we will have to look closely at the underframes now that w)e have sortp of0 sorted them out. Bill Pardie Sent from my V

As a footnote to my earlier post, Andy Carlson offered revised crossmembers for the Red Caboose underframe. Terry Wegman also included these in his R-30-16 conversion kit Bill Pardie Sent from my Veri

Hopefully not to oversimplify but rather to establish a practical means of accurately modeling the PFE wood refer fleetcan we establish that : 1) The Tichey underframe is correct for the WP. refers. 2

Thanks for that photo Richard. Photos of that car are very, very rare. Although it is unlikely that this car ever saw SP trackage it remains one of my favorites. Although built over 40 years ago it st

I am working on Sunshine Santa Fe Ft'V flat car. Virtually all Santa Fe freight cars had the brake reservoir mounted crosswise on the car. Neither the Sunshine instructions nor the Santa Fe open car b

I am looking for a good B end shot for the Northern Pacific stock car (CentrL Valley) in the third series that used the Ajax power handbrake (82596 series). Thanks in advance for any help. Bill Pardie

I havr several of these. I'm not sure if it is the same manufacturer. I don't use them as I seem to have a degree of difficulty tightening down on the drill. Maybe it's because as my wife says about m

I have found over the years that mos tpin vises for small drills have a short lifespan. I have resorted to using a small pin vice (no swivel head) from Micro Mark #15116. In fact I keep 10 of them on

A while back I was delighted to find a photo of a State Of Main boxcar in San Francisco. That justified my having one of these cars on my roster. Bill Pardie Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smart

Sometime within the past year (it seems) someone on the list asked for help on the unique brake arrangement used on the Pacific Electric outside braced box cars. By now they have ptrobably finished th

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_._,_._,_ When complete they make up into pretty darn good cars. My cars but not my work. Bill Pardie

Once completed the sensible cars are Pretty Dam Good. My cars but not my work. Enjoy: Bill Pardie

Recently I posted several request on this list for drawings of the brake orientation of a Union Pacific F-50-15 flat car. I also contacted Exactrail who produced a very good model of this car offering

A few tears back Exactaraul released an excellent model of Union Pacific F-50-15 flat car. They featured this at Naperville. AMB produced an excellent wood deck for this car. It is coming to the top o

Will there be instructions for accessing the Virtual RPM this week? Some of us computer illiterate folks think that a laptop is an activity in a Kotean Bar. Bill Pardie Sent from my Verizon, Samsung G

The end supports for the running board on most boxcars in the 40’s and 50’s consisted of a metal angle attached to the running board end with two legs projecting down to the car end. Many earlier boxc

I perfer the Athern truck over the Proto 2000 B-1 truck which came out first. The Athern truck was donr for their Santa Fe 50' refers. It features the "In line" brake shoes. I was not aware of the Kad

Thanks Charley. Just what I needed. Hope all is going well with you in this new world we are living in. Are you getting any modeling done? Stay safe : Bill Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartph