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Re: Decals
Benjamin Hom
Bill Pardie wrote: "He showed me some examples of his latest E Unit project. A process called "reverse printing" was used for the numbers in the number boards (the buyer could customize the engine for a specific train). A rather famous detailer of "O" scale engines uses this process which he prints up himself. W&R Enterprises used this process on their Rio Grande gondola process years ago. With this process only the lettering is transferred to the model (no decal film). I don't know how this works over rivets but will try to find out. Seems like a real time saver in trimming the decals and hiding the surrounding film. Is anyone familiar with this process?" Not a fan of it. Numbered a brass LIRR cabin car using this system and had a very rough time. Not having to deal with decal film is a plus and the lettering looks good once you get it on the model; however, the lettering is extremely fragile and great care must be taken while positioning the lettering or it will fall apart. The cabin car in question went through three different numbers before I got satisfactory results, even though I was lettring over a smooth surface with no raised detail.. This would be far from my first choice for lettering any model. Ben Hom
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Re: Tichy decals (was RE: Decal Adhesive)
Fred Jansz
Group, I've used a J. Glow decal set and there was nothing wrong with it. It's the Tichy decals that hurt me. The film is OK, it disappears after few shots of Methoxy-Propanol (Solvaset, Microsol) however, the ink on it is way too thick. In my situation (a DLW car and two PFE reefers) it was so thick it resembled plastic 3D letters in HO. And after the decal film dissolves, the thick white or black ink etches itself into the freshly painted surface. Try to remove the decal from a plastic model and the coat of paint on the car will go, but the decal's paint is very stubborn, it won't let go (or my brake fluid is non aggressive...).
I have never experienced any problems with (in some cases decades old) Champ, Sunshine, Microscale, F&C and Speedwitch decals to name a few. The only decals giving the same problems due to thickness of ink used were some Walthers decal from the 1960's. Fred Jansz
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Re: Glow Decals (was Tichy decals)
pennsylvania1954
Over the life span of Jerry Glow's decal business, he used at least two different printing providers. He did no printing himself. I seem to remember that one he was happy with had a fire which precluded his use. I recall a gap in availability of his decals while he obtained a new supplier.
A later supplier he used printed on a heavy (to us) film which was troublesome. After getting it starting to conform to model details, you had to press down on it with a warm cloth, then apply our normal decal solutions. I finished an IM boxcar in EJ&E green with Jerry's orange Around Chicago set. It was a pain applying the decals, but eventually they stopped fighting and settled in. I have no way of knowing with certainty, but I suspect printing issues were a main cause of his disappointing performance at the end. Steve Hoxie Pensacola FL
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Re: Hopper Bottom Boxcar
Garth Groff or Sally Sanford <sarahsan@...>
Bob and Ben,
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Well, they certainly didn't "catch on", but there were more examples around than just the GN and CP examples. Even the Northern Electric Railway (later the Sacramento Northern) had a few: http://www.wplives.org/sn/nebox.html . There was also a craze for hopper-bottomed stock cars to also carry coal or coke, and an ATSF example is shown in illustrations 184-185 in the 1919 CAR BUILDER'S DICTIONARY. This is reproduced in Gregg's TRAIN SHED CYCLOPEDIA No. 36. Yours Aye, Garth Groff
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Decals
WILLIAM PARDIE
On my way hom e from Chicagoland I stopped in the Bay Area and visited a friend wbo is a brass importer. He dhowed me some examples of his latest E Unit project. A process callrd "reverse printing" was used fir tge numbers in the number boards (the buyer could customize the engine for a specific train). A rather famous detailer of "O" scale engines uses this process which he prints up himself. W&R Enerprises used this pricess on their Rio Grande gondola process years ago. With this process only the lettering is transfered to the model (no decal film). I don't know how this works over rivits but will try to find out. Seems like a real time saver in trimming the decals and hiding the surrounding film. Is anyone familiar with this process? Bill Pardie Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
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Re: Glow Decals (was Tichy decals)
Actually Bill I think your photos illustrate what Pierre was talking about. In the one photo where there is decal laid over the edge of a raised steel flange, one can see that the decal did NOT conform to the flange and just rides over it. As someone pointed out, as long as the decals do not cover rivets or seams or anything other than flat, smooth surfaces, then they're fine. Tim O'Connor
The only Jerry Glow set I have used so far from my small stash is for my Georgia AAR gondola. They went down beautifully. here is a link to model photos: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/z94ws1iwebgsv8h/AACEAB022ZeO9yCf8UUKkbcza?dl=0
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Re: Hopper Bottom Boxcar
Benjamin Hom
Bob Chaparro asked: "Here is a link to a brief photo article on a Canadian Pacific hopper bottom boxcar that appeared in the April 1921 edition of Popular Mechanics: http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/cpr_rolling/hopper_bottom_boxcar.jpg Did these ever catch on with railroads in the U.S.?" No, though this approach was used by GN and successor BN to increase the efficiency and utilization of boxcars used for hauling grain. The GN example is available in HO scale from Funaro (kit 3702). After the period of this list, Burlington Northern experimented with boxcar/covered hoppers nicknamed "boppers" in the 1980s; three of these cars are in the collection of the Lake Superior Railroad museum. The vast majority of boxcars used in grain service were plain boxcars using grain doors and seals. Ben Hom
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Hopper Bottom Boxcar
thecitrusbelt@...
Here is a link to a brief photo article on a Canadian Pacific hopper bottom boxcar that appeared in the April 1921 edition of Popular Mechanics:
http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/cpr_rolling/hopper_bottom_boxcar.jpg
Did these ever catch on with railroads in the U.S.?
Bob Chaparro
Hemet, CA
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Re: Tichy decals (was RE: Decal Adhesive)
John Hagen <sprinthag@...>
David, Dulux gold is a very difficult color to get right. Once upon a time the Kodak version of the Alps printer had a process orange that, when yellow was layered over, gave a really nice dulux. But those cartridges have been un-available for years and anyone who may have one or two won’t sell. Last one I saw on eBay 4 -5 years ago went for over $100.00. There is a new orange being marketed by Elephant Rocket out of Japan but it is not the same hue at all and is very tough to get to work and near impossible to overlay to change the hue. Back in the days of mix-it-yourself screen printing it seemed to work okay and Microscale has a dulux gold that looks lousy on the decal sheet but looks better on the car. And then there is the problem that colors varied from road to road back in the day. John Hagen
>Re: Tichy decals (was RE: Decal Adhesive)>Tue Oct 31, 2017 1:10 pm (PDT) . Posted by:>David Bott" lwulffe_doc>Don told me at Timonium that it is an Epson printer marketed to sign makers with the one pass print head modified for decals. Not sure what modification was made.
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No reciprocal switching
dssa1051
Tony Thompson described reciprocal switching on his blog back in August. I recently came across a situation where there was NOT a reciprocal switching agreement. In the industry list for the CGW for Dubuque, IA the millwork company of Carr, Adams & Collier is shown as being served by all four railroads CGW, CB&Q, IC and MILW. Does that mean that all four roads had access to the industry or did one road switch the millwork company and then bill the other road for the switching fees? Dubuque is quite interesting in that it is a relatively small city with four railroads but unfortunately a good deal of the industrial area has been obliterated by highway construction in the last 25 years. Robert Oom Kalamazoo, MI
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Re: The UTLX X tankers
Dave Parker
Bruce: Yes, the "All About Tank Cars" book is a wonderful reference that I have consulted frequently over the last couple of years. The ARA Specifications are just a fraction of the information contained therein. There is also a 1919 edition of the same book: https://books.google.com/books?id=-GBCAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22all+about+tank+cars%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj98o2qzpzXAhUpi1QKHZrHD0oQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q&f=false The differences are mostly nuanced, but I recall that the two books capture some changes in the lettering standards that date to 1920. The tank car regs became even more involved when the ICC inserted itself into the oversight in 1927. Some of what transpired I can glean from my 1931 CBC, but the full picture is better delineated in the first issue of the Code of Federal Regulations from 1938, Title 49, Part 80: This website is funky in that you can only download 20 pages at a time. The "meat" of the tank car regs is in parts 80.1 to 80.3, pages 959-1090. Last, for the more transition-oriented, the Title 49 regs were updated and published in the CFR in 1949, Sections 71-90:
These references can be a real slog, but I think they are the definitive source for understanding the specs and regs for tank cars during our period. Best, Dave Parker Riverside, CA
On Monday, October 30, 2017 2:14 PM, "'Bruce F. Smith' smithbf@... [STMFC]" wrote:
Dave,
I did notice that the USG-A cars, which were also ARA class II, were allowed gasoline as a cargo...
Delving into this, I found “All About Tank Cars” as an Online eBook.
Published by Standard Tank Car Co in 1921, this is a massive tome (870 pages) with some amazing information. Around page 537 it discusses Class II specs and from this and other places, it appears that class II cars could be tested to a variety
of limits that would then define the commodities they could haul. So, unlike what I thought, there is no hard and fast rule for a class II car after 1917, but there is also no question that some class II cars were more restricted in what they could carry
than class III cars.
Regards
Bruce
Bruce F. Smith
Auburn, AL
"Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield."
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Re: Glow Decals (was Tichy decals)
Bill Welch
The only Jerry Glow set I have used so far from my small stash is for my Georgia AAR gondola. They went down beautifully. here is a link to model photos: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/z94ws1iwebgsv8h/AACEAB022ZeO9yCf8UUKkbcza?dl=0
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Re: 40-foot War Emergency Gondola List
Bill Welch
I don't know all of the owners but I know TN&O had them.
Bill Welch
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Re: 40-foot War Emergency Gondola List
Garth Groff or Sally Sanford <sarahsan@...>
John,
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War Emergency gondolas were fully covered in RPC 28. Yours Aye, Garth Groff
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Re: Tichy decals (was RE: Decal Adhesive)
Garth Groff or Sally Sanford <sarahsan@...>
Ben,
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I've done some experimenting with paper models from various manufacturers. In freight cars I did some work with Clever Models' narrow gauge cars at http://www.clevermodels.net . The most successful project was their tank car, which was shortened, resized to fit a four-wheel chassis, and lettered (on the file image) for a customer on my 7mm English narrow gauge line. In general, I'm not impressed with paper models, both structures and rolling stock, but they are fun to play with. The detail just looks too flat and the colors are rather dull, though this may something to do with my Epson Stylus Photo 1400 ink jet printer versus a laser printer. Paper buildings work pretty well as background flats in HO, especially when built up in layers to give them some texture. I've done this with heavily edited photos of real buildings, with some added details. In O-scale, I really don't like the lack of texture, and my experimental flats were replaced with built-up structures from styrene. Don't discount using printed paper for details. I've had good results with shingles and other roof textures. Even printed brick or stone works for some small applications when the structures are not in the foreground, chimneys for example. I've found that printed interiors seen through windows can work well, though not in the foreground. I've also scrounged paint sample cards with texture which make good stucco for walls and smooth stone for flooring (Valspar at Lowes). As for freight cars, printed sides with added details might work in TT or N scales. Try reducing drawings of freight cars from magazines like MAINLINE MODELER (which often included lettering) and colorizing them, then add 3d doors, ribs and ladders as separate pieces. Hey, experiment a bit and see what you get. Yours Aye, Garth Groff
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40-foot War Emergency Gondola List
golden1014
Hi All, Hope you all had a wonderful time at Naperville! Can anyone provide please an accurate list of those railroads that acquired 40-foot "war emergency" gondolas. I am aware that ACL had them, and Southern had a variant. I don't want to speculate about other roads, so if anyone has a handy list I'd be grateful to have the info. Thank you, John John Golden Albersbach, Germany https://railroadprototypemodeler.wordpress.com/
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Re: Tichy decals (was RE: Decal Adhesive)
Benjamin Scanlon
I have some of the Glow decals in TT which I'm now reluctant to use. Bought them about a year before he ceased trading.
I do not know if there's any way of identifying particular sets that have problems. Has anyone experimented with printed paper sides for boxcars or other stock? Pluses would seem to be lack of decal film and scale is largely irrelevant provided the artwork can be printed satisfactorily. Can see it being more use on cars with flat steel sides where rivets or weld lines are embossed from underneath. (With careful positioning.) Downsides I experienced are that while you can laminate paper to styrene, you have to be careful what you use to do it, as some inks don't like the solvent much and bleed. Be interested to hear any ideas tho, as this used to be fairly common practice a long time ago. I've seen some Australian models from the 'pre-decal era' which looked really good forty years later. Ben Scanlon
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This is for NKP hopper fans
Claus Schlund \(HGM\)
Hi List Members,
I'm cleaning out some stuff I no longer
need.
This is for NKP hopper fans, I have the following
article cut from magazine for my library
* The Nickel Plate Composite Hopper by Berghoff
from Mainline Modeler Jan 1984
It is time for someone else to enjoy
this.
Great reference on this topic.
It is free, I will put it in an envelope and mail
it to you for the asking.
Email me OFF LIST at
CLAUS
then the usual email separator HELLGATEMODELS period COM Thanks
Claus Schlund
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Re: Tichy decals (was RE: Decal Adhesive)
Cartograf is excellent but pricey due to minimum order size. Their yellows cannot be beat for quality though. Sent from Dave Bott' iPhone
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Re: Tichy decals (was RE: Decal Adhesive)
Don told me at Timonium that it is an Epson printer marketed to sign makers with the one pass print head modified for decals. Not sure what modification was made.
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It could be the resolution is fine but the ink is thicker or less pliable than ALPS particles or laser toner or silk-screened ink. I have not had a chance to use them, but I have all-white lettering decals from them to test. I really hope they will work well enough I can custom order the 8.5x11 sheet of A&Y decals I designed. I cannot get dulux gold to come out nice enough for my satisfaction on my laser printer to print my own, sigh. Sent from Dave Bott' iPhone
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