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From: Peter J. McClosky
To: STMFC@...
Sent: Friday, 23 March, 2007 12:15
Subject: Re: ADMIN: Re: [STMFC] Pennsy, Arrogance, and Bad
Management,What? Think again!


Mike Brock wrote:

> ... Thus, while the x29 [
> note, no "-" <G> ] and its many variations may have been
obsolete well
> before production ceased, a model of a RR during the period
should
> have many
> examples running about. After all, modeling a real RR is the
process of
> creating an "accurate" impression of it, including models of
obsolete cars
> of other RR's that might be found on it.
>









I started looking at trains a 4 year old living one long block
from the SP Chandler (Burbank) branch in the very early 1950's.
(Off topic, but I even saw a very strange, for a 4 year old,
locomotive running on it. It was running backwards and had the
tender behind the smoke box door... A cab forward, but I did not
know of them!)

I do not remember seeing a single Pennsy car until I move closer
to Taylor yard, in the late 50's.

In my new home, I could see, and with binoculars examine, the SP
Main Line in Glendale, CA, and it was on that line that I saw my
first Pennsy car (a "small" box car).

To keep this steam era and freight car related, in my HO model
fleet, I have exactly 1 (one) Pennsy box car.

I model the SP in the transition era, and I do not plan on
acquiring any more Pennsy cars.

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