Tik Tok from the Oz books. Time stopped in November 1941 Walter M. Clark Pullman, Washington, USA

Ian Clasper has a trick to improve Accurail Andrews trucks at http://www.steamfreightcars.com/modeling/articles/accuandrewsmain.html He carves off the cast on brake shoes and adds Kadee brake gear. I'

Hi, Beginning with some of the B-50-4 box cars SP started using an Andrews freight car truck. The sideframe is different in appearance from the one from Accurail and I don't think it matches the one f

My internet connection has been down for the past two weeks so I'm getting to this discussion a little late. My question is: What was the thickness of the various steel running boards/brake steps in u

Tony, and group, I agree based on the photos from late 1930s to early 1940s. One caveat - we can get as carried away with fading and dirt as long as the model won't be run on a layout. If you can't te

Mike, and group, One thing I've seen mentioned in Tony Thompson's series of books on SP Freight Cars is that right about 1960 the individual, hand-updated car cards were replace by computers, and with

Rod, I don't cut and paste, at least not with URLs that long. Put the mouse pointer at the top left, just far enough to the left to not pick up the HTML, then click and hold, dragging to the bottom ri

Marc Entze, please contact me off list. Walter M. Clark Time stopped in November 1941 Pullman, Washington, USA

Frank, you just missed it. Robert D. Heninger wrote in message 77137 on November 13, 2008 "As far as paint schemes, the earliest pictures of mineral red GN plywood boxcars I have seen have repaint dat

I had a professor in grad school who frequently said "The only people who don't make mistakes are those who do nothing at all." His follow-up to that was "Progress is making new mistakes, not repeatin

Mike, Check the archives. Specifically a thread beginning with message #19373 (May 22, 2003) and another beginning with message #72470 (May 6, 2008). I remembered those because I started both threads

Bob, Check out http://www.smallparts.com/ and look at filters. They have an enormous assortment of filters, and you should be able to find something that would work. Time stopped in November 1941 Walt

offerings. lettering models. the any of many the company. I thirties so evident Southern car & lettering? cars like like to Rob, On the SC&F website the prototype photo for the 2 compartment tank is G

market research we have determined that the actual number of modelers left is 1,235. you've stopped too.... ;>) kits in various stages of gathering dust, er, I mean various stages of construction. Tim

Peter, I'm interested in your comment about the 1937 AAR cars. I model the far West, but we know from previous threads that box cars traveled far and wide. What year were these built, square or W corn

--- In STMFC@..., "mcindoefalls" <mcindoefalls@...> wrote: <snip> > I seem to have the problem which I mentioned . . . often in resin kits > the parts don't match, not even one side to the

Bob, OT, but I could not resist<grin>. When I went to pick up my wife for our first date, she invited me in to meet her parents. I knew I was in the right place because the current issue of Trains mag

List, Thought I'd report where I am on my attempt to make more accurately sized car specialties. My current adventure<g> is modeling sill steps for Harriman SP box cars. I purchased a selection of shi

But I thought you meant the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, started under the Herbert Hoover administration as a lame attempt to do something about the start of the Depression<g>. Time stopped in

Thanks Tony, A follow-up: regarding the 1937 AAR house cars, about how long, on average (I'm only asking for a reasonably close guess here <g>) did it take for the paint to begin failing? I'm (eventua