Quoting Ed Hawkins <hawk0621@...>: I don't know who has confused the issue, Ed. Perhaps I did. I "thought" Brian was refering to the new wood sheathed General American express reefer that is

Quoting Don Strack <donstrack@...>: Some of us have been aware of these cars for three to four months but they will not be available for retail sale until very late fall acording to the inform

More likely it means we may soon expect to pay more for the privilege of assembling a Red Caboose kit than we would pay for a ready-to-run one with little or no effect upon the accuracy, or lack thero

Quoting mksparks2 <mksparks2@...>: snip Hi Mike, What would you bet they carried granulated slate off the D&H's Slatepicker?? It's a great way to use up the tailings for shipment to Bird & Son in

Quoting parkvarieties <parkvarieties@...>: We save them the cost of transportation to and from Red China, plus the cost of assembling the kits yet we are to accept a price increase for the pri

Quoting Clyde Williams <billdgoat@...>: Not to take away from Jack's post but I believe this method was first suggested some fifteeen or more years ago by Al Westerfield when he first introduced

Quoting ed_mines <ed_mines@...>: The Erie #93000 series are definitely not Dominion (or "Fowler") cars, as you indicate, Ed. The #93000 were built in the summer of 1930, long after use of the Fo

Quoting Andy Harman <andy10@...>: Why Backtrack when you are using, IMHO, the best product out there? Since the 58's and then 78's were introduced my passenger car fleet has been converted to the

Quoting benjaminfrank_hom <b.hom@...>: How aboiut whejn you view a single car from the side, Ben, or the cars of a train as we usually see them. The effect then is considerably different,

#4s

Quoting Andy Harman <andy10@...>: Couplers are a funny thing, Andy. I know of at least two Master Model Railroaders, both now deceased, who were still using Mantua loop couplers into the late 196

Quoting James D Thompson <jaydeet@...>: Now that's an interesting car! And it does appear to have all the characteristics of a Dominion car. I am well aware of the Dominion type cars on the Soo,

Quoting Schuyler Larrabee <schuyler.larrabee@...>: Well, Schuyler, you know how it is. Somedays it is hard to count that high. But I gather you mean you were about twelve months when us old du

Quoting Denny Anspach <danspach@...>: MKD-4 it is, Denny! Thanks. Not being where all one's "stuff" is makes it hard to check such things. Don Valentine

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Quoting "Alan C. Welch" <acwelch@...>: Then by that fact alone you acknowledge that no new CNR car was a "Fowler" car as use of that patent was found unnecessary and very expensive, thus its

Quoting Dave Nelson <muskoka@...>: Aw, c'mon. The boys in the car shop do a great job of making the car weathertight and you're going to complain about it? At least we have a radial roof car t

Quoting Denny Anspach <danspach@...>: This may depend on which Kadee coupler box one desires. I can't even recall the number of what I believe may have been the first Kadee coupler box. This

Quoting Dean Payne <deanpayne@...>: Dean, I'm not at home at the moment, making it difficult to check, but I expect about your only other choice might be CDS dry transfers. Don Valentine

Quoting Kert Peterson <kertp@...>: Thanks, Kert. That is what we needed to hear whether we like the response you received or not. Don Valentine

Quoting "Alan C. Welch" <acwelch@...>: If it already had a Murphy roof how can you be certain it was a Fowler car??? IIRC almost all Fowler cars constructed for the CNR and CPR were originall

Quoting Kert Peterson <kertp@...>: This is only half of the story, Kert. What was their response???? Don Valentine