Re: From NYCSHS Members Group; NYC Electrics
Photo taken in 1990. Rich G(ajnak)
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Rich Gajnak
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#171092
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Re: From NYCSHS Members Group; NYC Electrics
This is probably the locomotive at the IRM (Penn Central later in life).? IRM has this photo gallery of it. https://www.irm.org/gallery/PC4715 Charles E. "Chuck" Kinzer On Monday, June 24, 2024 at
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Charles Kinzer
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Re: From NYCSHS Members Group; NYC Electrics
Think IRM has a NYC electric with a really bad paint job. Needle chipping and wire wheeling needed badly. I can take pictures of anyone is interested.
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jjmannmmr
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American Models D&RGW/Rio Grande Motorways TOFC Set
American Models has finished production of our D&RGW/Rio Grande Motorways TOFC trailer sets. The sets include 2 different number D&RGW TOFC flat cars and 3 different Rio Grande Motorways trailers.
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Jim
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Re: SHS Cabooses Interior
I have had a few open and that one looks to me like someone added their own bulbs...unless that is a version I have not seen. Here is the info on the new ScaleTrains cabooses: The new ScaleTrains S
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Michael Logbeck
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Re: SHS Cabooses Interior
No, the electronics are all there, but there seem to be locating points where something is absent. Someone wrote me that the Scale Trains re-run has LED lighting, although is it possible that SHS did
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JGG KahnSr
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8 AM PFE REFERS FOR SALE -SCALE W/ KADEE COUPLERS
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Fred SCHLEGEL
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Re: smoke stacks
Oil can still give off sparks, particularly when sanding the flues or under heavy load. St. Regis #5 was built as an oil burner yet still was eventually fitted a spark arrestor, although the can
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Rich Gajnak
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#171085
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smoke stacks
The recent discussions regarding Shays, Climax and Heisler engines brought up a question I've had for a long time.--some of the lumber/NG crowd might know.? The PBL Shay I own has a balloon stack
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Bob Werre
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Re: Custom Decal Recommendation
Roger, I am very happy with the decals that Billy at PDC.com has made for me the last 3 years. He is in Canada but ships from a US post office. Your artwork or he will create what you need. Ed Sauers
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EdSauers
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Re: Custom Decal Recommendation
Circus City does custom decals. https://circuscitydecals.com/custom-decals Rich G(ajnak)
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Rich Gajnak
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Custom Decal Recommendation
Has anyone had decals made lately? I have every Monon decal ever made, most likely, but I don't have some of the ones that I need for the streamlined passenger cars, Thanks, Roger Nulton
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Roger Nulton
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Re: NWSL J&L Tank, Another Question
Remember the Eric Stevens ¡°Dollar Car¡± series scratchbuilding article from the early 1950s Model Railroader magazine. He specified the portrait style. -- Bill Roberts
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Bill Roberts
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#171080
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Re: hypothetical question with a real answer
R-T-W and R-T-R¡..similar product formats, both of which are reducing our collective skill sets and cost less the buy than building the items from scratch. There¡¯s been a number of studies
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Ted Zanders
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Re: hypothetical question with a real answer
My wife, a now-retired home economics teacher from Palo Alto High School, knows the answer to this not-so-hypothetical question.? The cost of buttons, zipper, thread, pattern and plain fabric far
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Ed Loizeaux
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Re: NWSL J&L Tank, Another Question
Perfect! Bill Winans --------------------- I didn't want it all but a friend who had been doing HO scale labels for
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William Winans
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Re: Brought To You By The Letters G, M and P¡
Thanks guys.? Right now I'm just happy to get it done.? I've been trying to clear up some projects that got set aside for one reason or other besides working up the enthusiasm to get going on the
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Rich Gajnak
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Re: Frank Titman tribute
I knew both Len and Frank. Their encouragement and coaching of a teen who wanted to be a writer and a modeler set me on a life path? for which I am forever grateful. Lee Rainey
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Lee Rainey
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Re: Brought To You By The Letters G, M and P¡
Hi Rich -- It looks very "average" -- a good thing. That makes it authentic. Mike's comment about a tack board paper is right on. Pieter Roos did that for a couple of cars he entered into an NASG
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William Winans
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Re: NWSL J&L Tank, Another Question
Hi All, I actually bought this for the princely sum of $20 CDN (which is about $10 USD now) at a flea market where the seller called out and said "You're in S Scale, buy this!". Of course I didn't
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Andrew Malette
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