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I find that I have a spare copy of the BL2 Data Series book from Hundman, if anyone can use it, contact me off list please.
Tommy Lennon?
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Hugh is this a convention car? ? Sent from my Tardis
-- Ted Larson trainweb.org/mhrr/??????? --------??????? NASG.org??????? --------??????? GN in 1965
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I believe there was a series of "how to do it in brass" -type articles in the "O scale 1/4" Foot" magazine in the '90s by an equally skilled builder, one Bob Turner; I think the model was a CB&Q Hudson.
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Mark in Oregon
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Jim, The Mel Thornburgh articles really impacted my young modeling life. At ten years old our family did not have extra money for hobbies. I got my MR from the library and discovered his brass building articles. As you described in you post, the articles were about scratch building ?locomotives with very little money and tools. He proved to me that a young inexperience kid with no tutoring, money or machinery to work brass can still build his dream steamer in brass.
His inspiration caries into my 70th year making it 60 yrs of his influence on my brass model building. I think of his work all the time while at the bench.
I was just telling my wife this morning about his work and influence on ?me. I have always wanted to give back by writing a series of articles as he did directing it to a young audience with the hopes of inspiring a young model railroader as he did me. I would call them “Building a brass locomotive at the kitchen table.” Mike Swederska?
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On Mar 12, 2025, at 7:02?PM, Jim & Cheryl Martin via groups.io <themartins@...> wrote:
? Hi Mike.? My Dispatch arrived today. Great article and a most excellent cover shot. I really think that the extensive list of building techniques that you have shared on this list is literally a ready made construction article. Something to think about later.
The Mel Thornburgh six part article on building a Wabash Mogul in brass premiered in MR's 25th anniversary issue, January 1959, and ran through to June of that year. What is remarkable is the simplicity of the tools that he used. No lathe, he turned brass with an electric drill and a file. In fact he also stated that he at times used a hand operated drill clamped in a vise.
?In terms of plans and construction articles I think 1959 may have been one of MR's best years ever.
Don't forget that this and other articles are free to members through the NASG library.
Cheers Jim Martin
-- Mike Swederska
Meramec Valley Lines
Modeling Mopac equipment in 3/16
https://www.youtube.com/@mikesscale3149
Don't let perfection get in the way of good enough! Keep model railroading fun!
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Re: Seeking AM plug door photo
Don, was that NJ reefer a convention car??
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Ted Larson
trainweb.org/mhrr/??????? --------??????? NASG.org??????? --------???????
GN in 1965
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This is one of my favorite SHS reefers.......... cuz they were one of the few all wood reefers still around in 1965
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Ted Larson
trainweb.org/mhrr/??????? --------??????? NASG.org??????? --------???????
GN in 1965
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When a new member signs up, the NASG Membership Secretary sends the
current Dispatch issue along with other items, as part of the
"Welcome" package.
- Peter (NASG webmaster).
On 03/12/2025 06:48 PM, Mike Swederska
via groups.io wrote:
If you don’t get this edition of the Dispatch. I’m thinking
that if you ask they will provide a copy.?
--
Peter Vanvliet (info@...)
owner, Fourth Ray Software
Houston, Texas
(personal web site)
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Hi Mike.? My Dispatch arrived today. Great article and a most excellent cover shot. I really think that the extensive list of building techniques that you have shared on this list is literally a ready made construction article. Something to think about later.
The Mel Thornburgh six part article on building a Wabash Mogul in brass premiered in MR's 25th anniversary issue, January 1959, and ran through to June of that year. What is remarkable is the simplicity of the tools that he used. No lathe, he turned brass with an electric drill and a file. In fact he also stated that he at times used a hand operated drill clamped in a vise.
?In terms of plans and construction articles I think 1959 may have been one of MR's best years ever.
Don't forget that this and other articles are free to members through the NASG library.
Cheers Jim Martin
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David, That’s wonderful you’re joining the NAGS. Let me be the first to welcome a fellow Mopac modeler to the club.?
You’re one of the few that have seen the Mountain and the my other locomotives in person.?
If you don’t get this edition of the Dispatch. I’m thinking that if you ask they will provide a copy.?
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On Mar 11, 2025, at 7:27?PM, David R. Henley Jr via groups.io <henley31c@...> wrote:
? Hello Mike,
? ? Congratulations on making the cover of the NASG magazine and having a featured article about your build.? I had been on the fence about joining the NASG and your announcement convinced me finally to pull the trigger.? Hopefully I am not too late to get this volume of the magazine.? Keep up your amazing work!
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Regards,
David Henley
-- Mike Swederska
Meramec Valley Lines
Modeling Mopac equipment in 3/16
https://www.youtube.com/@mikesscale3149
Don't let perfection get in the way of good enough! Keep model railroading fun!
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S scale Tight Lock couplers?
I recently saw a photo of some of the new S scale operating couplers from China, amongst the pic were two versions of the Tightlock type as used on passenger cars. Can anyone confirm if these are indeed available in S or were they just O scale availability. John Degnan?
? ? Bud Rindfleisch
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An interesting historical note.? Monastics generally report to the head of their order and he/she directly to the Vatican.? Not that the Irish were great beer?
drinkers anyway (perhaps if nothing better was available?), but they were great consumers of poteen (NOT a social beverage and highly addictive), to their?
and their families' detriment, hence the concern of many of their clergy.??
Granted, a generalization from someone with not a drop of Irish blood in his veins, so in no way intended as ethnic criticism.
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Here in Minnesota, there was a major dust up over the consumption of beer between Archbishop Ireland of the Diocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis who was the head of the Catholic temperance movement in the US and the German Benedictine monks at
St. John's Abbey in Collegeville.? ? The monks viewed temperance as an Irish and not an alcohol problem and said so.? Fortunately, under canon law they?were not subject to diocesan?authority.? ?
Michael Fox?
Probably all the ethnic German and Scandanavian Lutherans in the upper midwest who didn't consider beer an intoxicating beverage but simply a fact of?
normal life.? It was mostly us old Yankees who looked at it askance—but we saw no problem with moderate consumption of hard cider (although usually?
not on Sunday afternoons).
Richard,? Back as a kid many Sunday's were spent visiting around to
families,? they always seemed to have a wooden barrel of wine only
rarely something like beer or whiskey.? No matter how much you prayed in
the morning you didn't turn down some good spirits--no matter what kind.
I think most would take up a invitation to visit your layout!
Bob Werre
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> Next to my 'empire' is my home brew brewery, so during the mash I run
> trains, then during the boil it's back to the empire again. So no wine
> for me.
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> Rich D
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Michael
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I think that is customarily written Revenooer?? The Frankfort and Cincinatti—a very modelable Kentucky short line—derived much of its revenue from whiskey distilleries located along its route.
Yes, those pockets of Russianized Germans are a fascinating historical study: recruited by Catherine the Great (a German princess) to improve Russian agriculture, they were promised special privileges, including exemption from conscription into the Tsar's cannon
fodder armies.? By the mid-19th century, the then-Tsar decided he was not bound by his predecessor and started drafting them, at which point they decided Russia no longer suited them.? By that time the primary American (and Canadian) vacant land was the upper
Midwest, which was quite similar to the steppes where they had settled.? They were used to farming in that uncongenial environment and had brought seed that did well there.? A good friend in divinity school was descended from the Volgadeutsch, having grown
up in eastern Colorado, which is much more like Kansas and Nebraska than the Rockies.? One of my predecessors at my last church came from a different group of Russo-Germans, long?
settled in the Dakotas.
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Grandma Werre would sip some wine on those Sunday afternoons with visiting cousins!? However, card playing, dancing, and TV were frowned upon and the work of the devil!??? Family was also German, then South Russian/Ukraine, then
Canadian, then the wheat fields of the Dakotas.?
With that in mind, I sport two of the Downs beer-can tank cars on the layout that might be filled with a brew despite the lettering on the side!
My dear departed friend and Circuit Letter director from the 60's called one of his trains--the Revenuer based on his Kentucky heritage.?
Bob Werre
On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 05:49 PM, JGG KahnSr wrote:
Probably all the ethnic German and Scandanavian Lutherans in the upper midwest who didn't consider beer an intoxicating beverage but simply a fact of?
normal life.? It was mostly us old Yankees who looked at it askance—but we saw no problem with moderate consumption of hard cider (although usually?
not on Sunday afternoons).
I live in a dedicated beer region. Franconia has got more beer sorts than inhabitants (felt). In the big cities the majority is Lutheran (as I am). And yeah, this is a part of normal life. After the carnival season (that ended last wednesday, called "Aschermittwoch"
in Germany) we are used to substitute normal food with beer (okay, not completely) and it works.
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Grandma Werre would sip some wine on
those Sunday afternoons with visiting cousins!? However, card
playing, dancing, and TV were frowned upon and the work of the
devil!??? Family was also German, then South Russian/Ukraine, then
Canadian, then the wheat fields of the Dakotas.?
With that in mind, I sport two of the
Downs beer-can tank cars on the layout that might be filled with a
brew despite the lettering on the side!
My dear departed friend and Circuit
Letter director from the 60's called one of his trains--the
Revenuer based on his Kentucky heritage.?
Bob Werre
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On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 05:49 PM, JGG KahnSr wrote:
Probably all the
ethnic German and Scandanavian Lutherans in the upper
midwest who didn't consider beer an intoxicating beverage
but simply a fact of?
normal life.? It was
mostly us old Yankees who looked at it askance—but we saw no
problem with moderate consumption of hard cider (although
usually?
not on Sunday
afternoons).
I live in a dedicated beer region. Franconia has got more beer
sorts than inhabitants (felt). In the big cities the majority is
Lutheran (as I am). And yeah, this is a part of normal life.
After the carnival season (that ended last wednesday, called
"Aschermittwoch" in Germany) we are used to substitute normal
food with beer (okay, not completely) and it works.
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When I lived in Berlin, I recall that beer was sold in vending machines on the street along with soda.? ?If I recall correctly, beer was considered by law to be a food product and not drink.
-- Michael Fox?
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Here in Minnesota, there was a major dust up over the consumption of beer between Archbishop Ireland of the Diocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis who was the head of the Catholic temperance movement in the US and the German Benedictine monks at St. John's Abbey in Collegeville.? ? The monks viewed temperance as an Irish and not an alcohol problem and said so.? Fortunately, under canon law they?were not subject to diocesan?authority.? ?
Michael Fox?
Probably all the ethnic German and Scandanavian Lutherans in the upper midwest who didn't consider beer an intoxicating beverage but simply a fact of?
normal life.? It was mostly us old Yankees who looked at it askance—but we saw no problem with moderate consumption of hard cider (although usually?
not on Sunday afternoons).
Richard,? Back as a kid many Sunday's were spent visiting around to
families,? they always seemed to have a wooden barrel of wine only
rarely something like beer or whiskey.? No matter how much you prayed in
the morning you didn't turn down some good spirits--no matter what kind.
I think most would take up a invitation to visit your layout!
Bob Werre
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> Next to my 'empire' is my home brew brewery, so during the mash I run
> trains, then during the boil it's back to the empire again. So no wine
> for me.
>
> Rich D
>
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PRICE REDUCTION
I'm offering for sale four Tomica 1/60 scale Toyota forklifts in excellent condition.? Asking $6 each or $22 for all.? Prices are minus the postage.??
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I accept PayPal, Zelle, check or money order.
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Thanks, George Lightfoot.
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Tom Lennon
Ted Larson
Mark Mugnai
Bob Werre
