All: I trust it will be OK with NIck Molo if I forward his “Master Class” discussion to the group. I’ve posted it on the Southern Railway (not only “modeling”) group because of its business

Ike, Thanks for posting this. This was a detail I was hoping to figure out how to do in O scale at some point. Two questions. 1. Are there any existing good photos of what these look like? 2. The

I think about the only way to do this reasonably is with photo-etched metal. They'll all be the same size and the holes will be centered. Hunt around for someplace that does custom photo-etching. You

[In case anyone was wondering if Ike is nuts, here's your evidence....] Ike wrote: >BUT, there is a problem. All other piping on Es and Fs is just piping, the E-6s have 4x4" cooling fins. I can cut

I have always liked how the Southern's modified E-6s looked.. As soon as I saw the Proto 2000 E-6s I have wanted to modify one in the same style. The pier panels on the body castings Athern uses in

Yes, Mask Island offers the plug doos for these cars. If we have them in stock, you can order them through the SRHA company store www.srha.net. It's still on the work bench without a road number but

Aren't these the same cars Mask Island offered a kit for? I have one partly built. Forget what roadblock I hit.... Scott Chatfield O Fenton Wells <srrfan1401@...> wrote: Thanks Ike, I appreciate

Thanks Ike, I appreciate your info. We may do this car for the 2019 B'NB for the Carolina's RPM next October. We will have the plug doors cast specially for this car in resin..-- Fenton Wells 250

I realize thirty pages of meeting notes from 1904 will not interest everyone but to see for yourself use the link to Google Drive to view or download the notes of a meeting at Southern headquarters in

Fenton: All of the Southern and CofG "brick" cars need a detailed article in TIES as they have quite a history. A "short" answer to your question.....working backwards.... The Southern 505700-505848

My thought about Walthers is that they don’t worry about the small stuff. The average modeler does not either, so Walthers provides models that sell without caring if it is prototypically correct.

It just seems like Walthers had to go out of their way to model the steam generators. None of the other roads (correct or not) had them. John Ryan -- John Ryan

Does anyone have information on these boxcars? They were rebuilt 40 boxcars with 16' door openings and double plug doors. Some had loaders insd=talled and were called container cars. They are in

John, Good to hear from you. I looked at these also. These models are not the Proto series but the Mainline series and maybe comparable the older Proto 1000 series that included the Southern Phase II

John: Working with Walthers, or other manufacturers is something we always try to do but personnel changes can break our contacts. We did receive a request from Walthers about the F-7s quite some time

Well the problem is that the SRHA has told manufacturers what we have and how we can help, and few take advantage of it . There's been personal visits to most of the majors literally showing drawings

What's is really interesting is that none of the other Walthers F7's that I saw had steam generators. If they had just used dynamic brakes there would have been quite a few suitable matches. I

Remember that most people in China have never seen an American locomotive. Also I have seen manufacturers use the same body shell for different paint schemes,not really researching what is correct for

I have been looking at purchasing the Walthers F7 models. The numbers offered, though, do not seem to match the configuration very well. The models have dynamic brakes and steam generators. My

All, Recent news...Sunset Models/3rd Rail is now going to attempt do the dual service (steam generator + rooftop air tanks) F3's in both green and black. These are O Scale models and come in both 3R