Excuse me, but because one person thinks the car is "dumb looking"
does that mean that I'm stupid because I happen to like the car
alot? Bobby Pitts

On Thu, April 20, 2006 9:28 pm, Schuyler Larrabee wrote:

On Behalf Of Thomas M. Olsen

The same goes for freight cars in
various scales: the more obscure the car, the more models of
it are built.

Witness the new version of the Jones & Laughlin tank car. WHY?

A dumb

looking car that never went
anywhere.

Schuyler,

On top of that, the version produced by F&C appears to mimic the

mistake

made by the previous NWSL brass J&L 20,000 gallon tanks... that

silver

with black lettering paint job. More than likely, it is

a "builder's

paint job" done to highlight the details. The few pictures of

operational

J&L tanks in this series appear to show black cars with white

lettering

<G>. A paint job that make a lot more sense for its lading of coal

tar.

I don't know if the model comes with those decals as well, but so

far I

have seen no evidence of it.

BTW, while uncommon outside of the J&L plants,these cars did

actually

traverse mainline rails, although probably only PRR and only very

specific

lines.

Regards
Bruce Smith
Auburn, AL