Model Train Journal

Great thread on a really amazing car!

Rich

Solder Wick. You won't get it ALL, but will be good enough.

Rich

C'mon Erik, stop putting on the pictures of REAL stuff! Obviously I'm kidding, but your work really is THAT GOOD! And I'm with Butch regarding that first image!

Rich

I didn't know that. I know several people who bought the SP 4-10-2 and they loved it, but no clue how well it sold or the Trainmaster. I'm sure Henry's obsession with customer service and hand delivering his models was part of that cake you mention. I've seen Trainmasters sell for well over Henry's...

Marty, I think the whole made in USA thing was because of funding issues. Just going by my memory (which is terrible). There were some adds in OST in the issues numbered in the 70's and 80's. If I were to guess, I would say the model never saw the light of day (too bad, that), but I thought someone ...

Schneider Model Railroading, that is! He was supposed to come out with a model of the B&O "grasshopper", a small open air loco with the "engineer" in at the rear. It was advertised in "O Scale Trains", and I think it was to be made in the USA. Just wondered if it ev...

Somewhere I saw a brief film on Sofue, where he was soldering a loco together (while smoking a cigarette). He would solder a bit, take a puff on his cigarette, put it down, and then doze off! (Might have been on the Brass Trains dot com. website)

Rich

I wish Henry had built some UP models, as I owned one of his SP 4-10-2's for a short time and it was very nice. Henry was a good friend, and at one of the "Eastern O Scalers" shows, he had a prototype of that engine in a wooden carrying case, and he pulled it out and was pondering the hei...

"my first brass engine my dad bought me in 1986" Eric L.

Which says it ALL!

I don't think we're in Pennsylvania anymore! The catenary must be back there!

Anyone pose a question to Bill as to what might cause these issues?

Who's counting! Happy Holidays to ALL!

Rich

[quote="sarge" If I was to offer any advice to anyone who really is worried about their estate, it would be to build and paint yer shit. Folks will buy your finished models done well long before they'll buy your virgin kits and shiny brass. That's where it's goin'. Stop worrying about buyi...

Some really nice cab forwards will appear on eBay within the next decade or so. Or they will go in the dumpster. Being fatalistic, I think it's a pretty fair bet, it will ALL end up in the dumpster sooner or later, Consider the idea how much stuff is laying around from years past (apart from museum...

R.K. Maroon wrote:Thanks to Sarge for this post. Fred Bradley built and painted this Nickel Plate Products 50-ft boxcar:

Jim

Fred was quite the guy! Wish I could have met him!

Rich