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Re: Swift paint scheme
Dave Parker
As Steve noted, Swift apparently renumbered the 12000-12999 series cars into the 40000 series sometime in 1925. But, the 12000 series was repopulated with cars sometime between 12/30 and 7/34 (based on my ORERs). From then through 1945 at least, this series contained five or more sub-series with small variations in dimensions and capacity, suggesting a mix of cars from differing origins. It does not appear in my 1/54 register.
In addition, the switch from SRL to SRLX dates to 1934-35, with completion by 1938. The photo of 12624 on the old steam era website (and on Wiki) has the SLRX reporting mark and KC brakes. It also bears a full list of equipment on the car end, a practice that many owners dropped with the adoption of the 1927 ARA lettering standards. Swift seems to have been an exception in that the early 1930s builders' photos in Hendrickson and Kaminski all show that list on the end. Photos from the 1950s seem to show a more limited two lines of data on the ends. If I had to throw a dart at it, I'd say that photo is late 1930s or early 1940s. As to why it's FCC (or red) rather yellow, I have no inkling. Hope this helps. -- Dave Parker Swall Meadows, CA
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Re: Swift paint scheme
Richard Townsend
Well that photo seems pretty definitive. Curiouser and curiouser. And another reason I wish I had gone to Chicagoland. Thanks for the info. Richard Townsend
Lincoln City, OR
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From: Douglas Harding <doug.harding@...> To: main <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Sent: Tue, Oct 29, 2019 8:31 pm Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Swift paint scheme Richard a group of us gathered at Chicagoland last Friday to discuss the Swift reefer fleet. This included looking at photos both Steve Hile and I had collected. The photo you asked about is one that had us puzzled as it does not match any of known paint schemes. However I have seen one other photo that appears to have a Swift reefer with the same paint scheme.
Based on the Chevy billboard I would say the photo is circa 1952. Look at the reefer on the lower left. It appears to have the same paint scheme, dark color (red?) with while/light lettering. I can’t make out the number, but it is a four digit number and looks like it might begin with 4, which would put it in the largest block of Swift reefers in the early 50s, 3500-5199 with 1517 cars in the 1953 ORER.
The P/L schemes appears to be a solid red, with white lettering/font that matches the black lettering/font on yellow cars, right down to the word “refrigerator” on the right of the door. Which is odd as the word refrigerator is on the left side as well. The new 1950 P/L scheme was red cars with the white fascia board that had white lettering that with the word “Swift” in very large letters on the right side of the door, just like the red banner found on the 1948 paint scheme.
I going to guess that Swift experimented with their new red P/L scheme before settling on the final design. The car you asked about, SRLX 12624, has the small word refrigerator on the right side, not the large banner sized Swift. So this may have been a transition design that lost out to the large banner size “Swift”.
Doug Harding
www.iowacentralrr.org
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of Richard Townsend via Groups.Io
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 9:06 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: [RealSTMFC] Swift paint scheme I my on-going research into the Swift & Co. freight car fleet, I have found this photo: http://www.steamerafreightcars.com/gallery/reefer/srlx12824main.html
I am in a quandary about its paint scheme. At first look the car appears to have dark sides with light lettering. Perhaps like the bright red cars with white lettering that included the large banner "Swift" to the right of the door. But the lettering on this car is the same style as used on Swift reefers two paint schemes before the all red sides.
On closer examination, I think there may be an optical illusion at work here. Notice the reporting marks and car number on the side. They appear to grade into a dark color. So I'm thinking the "lightness" of the lettering might just be an artifact of how the light is reflecting off the (glossy) paint used for the lettering. It might just be a yellow-sided car with black lettering.
What says the throbbing brain of the RealSTMFC group?
Richard Townsend
Lincoln City, OR
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Re: Swift paint scheme
Richard a group of us gathered at Chicagoland last Friday to discuss the Swift reefer fleet. This included looking at photos both Steve Hile and I had collected. The photo you asked about is one that had us puzzled as it does not match any of known paint schemes. However I have seen one other photo that appears to have a Swift reefer with the same paint scheme.
Based on the Chevy billboard I would say the photo is circa 1952. Look at the reefer on the lower left. It appears to have the same paint scheme, dark color (red?) with while/light lettering. I can’t make out the number, but it is a four digit number and looks like it might begin with 4, which would put it in the largest block of Swift reefers in the early 50s, 3500-5199 with 1517 cars in the 1953 ORER.
The P/L schemes appears to be a solid red, with white lettering/font that matches the black lettering/font on yellow cars, right down to the word “refrigerator” on the right of the door. Which is odd as the word refrigerator is on the left side as well. The new 1950 P/L scheme was red cars with the white fascia board that had white lettering that with the word “Swift” in very large letters on the right side of the door, just like the red banner found on the 1948 paint scheme.
I going to guess that Swift experimented with their new red P/L scheme before settling on the final design. The car you asked about, SRLX 12624, has the small word refrigerator on the right side, not the large banner sized Swift. So this may have been a transition design that lost out to the large banner size “Swift”.
Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of Richard Townsend via Groups.Io
I my on-going research into the Swift & Co. freight car fleet, I have found this photo: http://www.steamerafreightcars.com/gallery/reefer/srlx12824main.html
I am in a quandary about its paint scheme. At first look the car appears to have dark sides with light lettering. Perhaps like the bright red cars with white lettering that included the large banner "Swift" to the right of the door. But the lettering on this car is the same style as used on Swift reefers two paint schemes before the all red sides.
On closer examination, I think there may be an optical illusion at work here. Notice the reporting marks and car number on the side. They appear to grade into a dark color. So I'm thinking the "lightness" of the lettering might just be an artifact of how the light is reflecting off the (glossy) paint used for the lettering. It might just be a yellow-sided car with black lettering.
What says the throbbing brain of the RealSTMFC group? Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR
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Re: Swift paint scheme
We have puzzled over this one, too. Besides the Steam
Era Website photo, I ran into it on Wiki site, too.
Here's my two cents worth. It would certainly
appear that everything on the car end, from the fascia down to the end sill is
the same color, presumably dark (freight car red), based on the lighter (white)
lettering.
If you then look around the car corner, into the shadowed side
of the car, the items that wrap around the corner, such as the facial and the
corner strap are all darker in the shadow side. So, I will assume that the
whole car side is dark and the lettering is white, and not an optical
illusion.
The 12000 series cars (with, apparently, fish belly
underframes) are noted as being renumbered into the 40000 series as a footnote
in the January 1925 ORER. I understand that Swift had contracted with
Quaker to do this conversion, which led to GAT's involvement, as it purchased
Quaker later in the late 1920's. So, that puts some upper date limit on
the photo.
Other theories are most welcome.
Steve Hile
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of Richard Townsend via Groups.Io Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 9:06 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: [RealSTMFC] Swift paint scheme I my on-going
research into the Swift & Co. freight car fleet, I have found this
photo: http://www.steamerafreightcars.com/gallery/reefer/srlx12824main.html
I am in a quandary about its paint scheme. At first look the car appears to
have dark sides with light lettering. Perhaps like the bright red cars with
white lettering that included the large banner "Swift" to the right of the door.
But the lettering on this car is the same style as used on Swift reefers two
paint schemes before the all red sides.
On closer examination, I think there may be an optical illusion at work
here. Notice the reporting marks and car number on the side. They appear to
grade into a dark color. So I'm thinking the "lightness" of the lettering might
just be an artifact of how the light is reflecting off the (glossy) paint used
for the lettering. It might just be a yellow-sided car with black
lettering.
What says the throbbing brain of the RealSTMFC group? Richard Townsend
Lincoln City, OR
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Swift paint scheme
Richard Townsend
I my on-going research into the Swift & Co. freight car fleet, I have found this photo: http://www.steamerafreightcars.com/gallery/reefer/srlx12824main.html
I am in a quandary about its paint scheme. At first look the car appears to have dark sides with light lettering. Perhaps like the bright red cars with white lettering that included the large banner "Swift" to the right of the door. But the lettering on this car is the same style as used on Swift reefers two paint schemes before the all red sides.
On closer examination, I think there may be an optical illusion at work here. Notice the reporting marks and car number on the side. They appear to grade into a dark color. So I'm thinking the "lightness" of the lettering might just be an artifact of how the light is reflecting off the (glossy) paint used for the lettering. It might just be a yellow-sided car with black lettering.
What says the throbbing brain of the RealSTMFC group?
Richard Townsend
Lincoln City, OR
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Re: Help with Manufacturer?
Chuck Cover
Thanks to all who have contributed to this inquiry. The consensus is that it is a Silver Streak model that has been modified.
Chuck Cover Santa Fe, NM
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Re: Consolidated Freightways at Lisle question
Bill Welch
On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 11:19 AM, mel perry wrote:
I tend to doubt it but no way to know for sure until the modeler can be found. Bill Welch
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Tom Madden
Ted Schnepf
Hello Tom, Please contact me off list to continue our discussion from Lisle. I can't seem to send a email to you from your postings on this list. Sorry to waste everyone's band space. Ted Schnepf 126 Will Scarlet, Elgin, Ill. 60120 847=697-5353
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Re: Consolidated Freightways at Lisle question
mel perry
i wonder if these are winross or tonkin? mel perry
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Evergreen Styrene Quality Control
Bill Welch
I often use Evergreen's 0.005 sheet styrene cutting it into any number of widths of strip or shapes (I have no actual life) and have through the years developed a feel for it. Recently while handling it I noticed it felt differently so I got my Mitutoyo Digital Caliper and found it to actually be 0.0065" thick. I have tried both calling and emailing Evergreen to let them know with no response.
Since then I bought some 2x2 styrene strip (#8202) and find it to be noticeably rectangular. Anyone else noticing slippage in quality control at Evergreen? Wondering if anyone here might have a reliable way to contact Evergreen—maybe they know someone there? I am willing to make the contact, just need a way through the door so-to-speak. Bill Welch
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Re: Consolidated Freightways at Lisle question
Here is this year's overall display. Very nicely done
models
Steve Hile
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of Daniel A. Mitchell Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 8:26 AM To: main@realstmfc.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Consolidated Freightways at Lisle question Dan Mitchell
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Re: Consolidated Freightways at Lisle question
The display was much the same last year, with ten or so assorted Freightways trucks. Here’s a photo of one from the 2018 RPM meet …
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Re: Consolidated Freightways at Lisle question
mel perry
did anyone take a pic? mel perry
On Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 3:57 AM Eric Hansmann <eric@...> wrote:
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Re: Consolidated Freightways at Lisle question
Eric Hansmann
I did not see an info card with those models.
Eric Hansmann
Murfreesboro, TN
On October 29, 2019 at 4:54 AM Bill Welch <fgexbill@...> wrote:
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Consolidated Freightways at Lisle question
Bill Welch
Does anyone know who had the wonderful Consolidated Freightways truck and trailer models at Chicagoland RPM26 last week?
Going directly to jail for being off topic. . . Bill Welch
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Re: Help with Manufacturer?
rwitt_2000
Based upon the information on the HOseeker site [https://hoseeker.net/otherhotrains3.html] it appears Mainline Models never made a 40-ft reefer lettered for the ART.
I have no good guesses. I would suggest that the model is custom built and decorated with 3rd party decals. That said the basic model could from any number of model manufacturers. They are nicely assembled and painted. Bob Witt
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Re: Fixing Shifted Loads
Model: Load Shifter Courtesy of Paul Koehler, these are photos of a load shifter built by the late Bill Topham of Glendale, CA, for his HO scale Silver Palace Lines. Although it is not an exact replica, Bill scratch built this from studying the load shifter located in Southern Pacific's Taylor yard. Bill's father was an SP engineer so I assume Bill had good access to the Taylor Yard facilities. The Silver Palace Lines appeared in the March 1982 Railroad Model Craftsman, the June 1977 NMRA Bulletin and other publications. This model will be installed on Paul's layout, also in Glendale. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Re: Piedmont & Northern lettering
George Courtney
Thanks, Bill. Much appreciated.
George Courtney
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RPM Chicagoland 2019 Photos
Jeremy Dummler
All,
The following link will take you to a small gallery of photos from this year’s RPM Chicagoland over this past weekend. I did not have a chance to photograph many of the fantastic models on display this year, but caught what I could. Jeremy Dummler Wauconda, IL
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Re: Wabash auto boxcar
Eric Hansmann
I talked with Al Ferguson of Black Cat at the RPM. He can run the decal again if he gets some requests. Send him an email through the contacts on the Black Cat website.
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On Oct 28, 2019, at 9:56 AM, Rob M. via Groups.Io <rule292@...> wrote:
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