Guys, Some of you have suggested that the STMFC membership require approval for entry. I have decided to do that at least for the time being. OTOH, I don't want to be the Supreme Court [ we have enoug

Thanks, Richard. One as-planned detail that was eliminated, but with traces still left behind, that I found interesting was the SS cars' end sill. While the 9" channels and cover plate were discarded

Richard Hendrickson writes about Dave Nelson's Frt Conductor book: And some of the loads look > like backhaul cargoes for westbound empties, which would explain what SFRD > cars were doing in UP train

I'm working with a UP conductor's manual recorded in March, 1948, for thru trains between Laramie and Rawlins Wyoming. Almost every car inital and number is legible with just a few exceptions - one in

> Dave Nelson writes: > > >- I understand opinions vary on when the steam era ended. I think <=1956 is > >generous. It is commonly regarded by the more formal historian and professional museum communi

Tony Thompson writes in the Steamloco forum: . I too dislike intensely the application of styrene handrails, and consistently replace them with wire. I don't think styrene is a good material for this

Okay guys, I've been on this darn fool list for 30 hours now and all I've seen discussed is dates, airplane glues, trolley cars, and casting resins. When do we get to the important parts of freight ca

Oooh, looky, some real FC questions: What's the latest on Branchline freight cars? Are the 40' [as opposed to 41'] box cars available yet? Do they have a version of their 50' box car that has a 10'6"

I'm puzzling through the Atlas kits for our Atlas section (http://www.union.rpi.edu/railroad/images/rolling-stock/Kits/Atlas-kits.html#sets) For most of their cars, the Atlas web site has a photo, so

Tichy makes excellent KC and KD brake sets, and I have tons of leftover KC gear from kits. (99% of my stuff uses AB or later brakes.) I suspect one reason the CalScale AB set is selling slowly is that

I've just been studying the Red Caboose's web site for their PFE reefers. Maybe I've missed something, but I don't see any explanation of the "TW" designation. Is this something they made up for non-P

I have nine sets of Cal Scale #AB-284 brass AB brake sets. One pack was originally priced $1.50, seven were $2 and the other was $3.75. I don't know where they all fall on the degradation curve, but i

Picked up a couple of sets of the new scale Kadees, No.58s, yesterday. Overall, not bad looking, and more realistic than the old reliable predecessor. I put them on a couple of cars and a caboose, and

Intermountain does really well with sticking with the right paint schemes on the right cars. But does anyone know of any ART cars leased to Royal (with the big placard on the side) that were NOT belt-

Group, Just got bit by the P2K dating bug with a batch of 10K tanks I just bought. This means the impossibility of telling what tanks you have without unpacking the cars. Anyway the group of COSX I go

I think Byron exagerates the difficulty of using a closer to scale draft gear. For one thing, on a model coupler the amount of swing as measured by the deflection at the coupler face depends on the di

Just found a new material to use for your used Floquil and Scalecoat paint lids. Seems the plastic material used in SoBe drink lids is very solvent resistant. It can be pried out of the lid and used a

In 1940, there were an unknown number of cars in California Despatch Line's 277-317 series, TW cars said to be equipped with 6 wooden tanks (not the two I would have expected, if built like a GPEX mil

On 12-20-00, John Nehrich asked: Since everyone else seems asleep, I'll venture a first cut answer from here at work without my PFE book (I took it home during our move). PFE sold some it's R-30-9's t

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