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Re: Car ID just for fun
Clark,
To be precise, it's a single door X31A.
Regards,
Bruce Smith
Auburn, AL
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Clark Propst <cepropst@q.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2020 10:33 AM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Subject: [RealSTMFC] Car ID just for fun It's be nice to know the make up of this train (attached) running on the branch l model.
It's obvious the first car is an X31. I've been told the second is a D&H Seley hopper. I have a Bowser X31 and bought the F&C Seley to build this winter. Don't know enough about tank cars to guess which HO company offered that car, if any? Not sure the road on the door and a half box Boston & Albany maybe? The hopper kind of looks like the one offered by Roundhouse? Not sure about the last two box cars. I do have a much larger scan I didn't what to attach I can send to those who are really interested in I Ding the cars. Thanks all! Clark Propst
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Re: Car ID just for fun
Don Burn
If that is an AAR 70-ton triple hopper which is my guess, then AT&SF, B&O, CP, L&A, MP, NKP, NYC, P&LE, SAL, SP are some of the roads with that hopper.
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From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of Clark Propst Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2020 2:47 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Car ID just for fun I've convinced myself the three bay hopper is the MDC car. Now anyone know what RRs had cars like that? Thanks you all, Clark Propst
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Re: FW&D 7231 Accurail kitbash
Robert kirkham
Seeing the work other people do - with those daring close ups - provides something tangible to strive for. Thanks Nelson.
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On Nov 14, 2020, at 11:49 AM, Nelson Moyer <npmoyer@...> wrote: How we hate it when we think we’re through with a model, then take pictures of it only to reveal something undesirable that we overlooked. But without the photos, we wouldn’t know where we messed up. Been there and done that. Despite the minor issues, it’s a very nice car. Nelson Moyer From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of Robert kirkham Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2020 12:51 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: [RealSTMFC] FW&D 7231 Accurail kitbash Thought I'd share a model I completed this morning. Or thought I had completed - I see a couple of touch ups needed. This is an Accurail 4300 kit, cut down to better represent the 8'6" IH. Uses decals from Jerry Hansmith. Rob
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Re: Car ID just for fun
Quite a few. I know SR did but many others did as well
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On Nov 14, 2020, at 2:46 PM, Clark Propst <cepropst@q.com> wrote:
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Re: FW&D 7231 Accurail kitbash
Nelson Moyer
How we hate it when we think we’re through with a model, then take pictures of it only to reveal something undesirable that we overlooked. But without the photos, we wouldn’t know where we messed up. Been there and done that. Despite the minor issues, it’s a very nice car.
Nelson Moyer
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On Behalf Of Robert kirkham
Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2020 12:51 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: [RealSTMFC] FW&D 7231 Accurail kitbash
Thought I'd share a model I completed this morning. Or thought I had completed - I see a couple of touch ups needed.
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Re: Car ID just for fun
Clark Propst
I've convinced myself the three bay hopper is the MDC car. Now anyone know what RRs had cars like that?
Thanks you all, Clark Propst
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Re: FW&D 7231 Accurail kitbash
Clark Propst
Very, very nice. I just brought home one of those to do about the same. Haven’t decided on the CB&Q or MKT. Thanks for sharing your fine model. Clark Propst
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Re: FW&D 7231 Accurail kitbash
What I found amazing is when you put these cars on the track the differences are appealing. You don't want them all the same, at least I don't think one does.
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 2:23 PM Robert kirkham <rdkirkham@...> wrote:
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Re: FW&D 7231 Accurail kitbash
Robert kirkham
Thanks Fenton. I used some Derwent watercolour pencils (mostly Venetian Red #63 and Terracotta #64) to add back some faded red colour when the paint & other effects had become too much. Under magnification, I’m not thrilled with the job I did blending it, but at 18” I think it will look good on the rails.
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On Nov 14, 2020, at 10:56 AM, O Fenton Wells <srrfan1401@...> wrote: Well done Rob, great "dirt" Fenton On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 1:51 PM Robert kirkham <rdkirkham@...> wrote: Thought I'd share a model I completed this morning. Or thought I had completed - I see a couple of touch ups needed.
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Re: FW&D 7231 Accurail kitbash
Robert kirkham
Thanks Tony. You know - as soon as I posted the photos, I saw the “3” decal on the car end had floated up after I thought I had it in place. Missed that before the clear coat and weathering - so quickly fixing it this morning.
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Drop end gondola ratchet hand brakes
Seth Lakin
Group, in modeling a gon with drop ends. The builders component sheet says that some cars had Klasing 5L-700 and the remaining cars had Universal 1995 hand brakes. Photos of of both of them show a ratchet type handbrake is there a separate detail part or a kit that has one of these modeled that the hand brake be harvested to model either the Klasing 5L-700 brake or Universal 1995 brake?
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Re: FW&D 7231 Accurail kitbash
Well done Rob, great "dirt" Fenton
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 1:51 PM Robert kirkham <rdkirkham@...> wrote: Thought I'd share a model I completed this morning. Or thought I had completed - I see a couple of touch ups needed. --
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Re: FW&D 7231 Accurail kitbash
Tony Thompson
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FW&D 7231 Accurail kitbash
Robert kirkham
Thought I'd share a model I completed this morning. Or thought I had completed - I see a couple of touch ups needed.
This is an Accurail 4300 kit, cut down to better represent the 8'6" IH. Uses decals from Jerry Hansmith. Rob
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Re: Pool Service into California
George Eichelberger at SRHA did a clinic on SR pool cars a few years ago and he may have the SR cars involved. Fenton
On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 10:40 PM Fred Swanson via groups.io <fredswanson=rocketmail.com@groups.io> wrote: Many cars serving the auto industry were in pool service. Are there listings or other information on what lines to and from where, when? --
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Re: Was there ever a clinic on Delano-based paint and weathering?
Tony Thompson
Dave Evans asked:
Where can one find his images? Lighting in Colorado is normally quite different from Pennsylvania, and during WWII, Colorado was much more pristine, but they could provide a useful data point. I don't know. Richard Hendrickson had obtained copies of slides from a narrow gauge source, which I've seen (those slides went to John Signor). I would guess checking with knowledgeable NG folks would be the way to start. Tony Thompson
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Re: Pool Service into California
Tony Thompson
Fred Swanson wrote: Many cars serving the auto industry were in pool service. Are there listings or other information on what lines to and from where, when? I don't know of such information all in one place. I was able to access SP car assignments by car number to a whole range of auto parts pools, and those data are in my Volumes 3 and 4 of the series, _Southern Pacific Freight Cars_ mostly in the form of tables of data. But I did not know who else was in the various pools. Tony Thompson
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Re: Decals for scale locations and light weights
Garth Groff and Sally Sanford <mallardlodge1000@...>
Charlie, One of the C&O's most common marks was RA for Raceland, Kentucky. That was their biggest car shop. Some Southern locations I spotted in photos are CR, K, MDN, HE, ALX (likely Alexandria, VA), AUG (Augusta, GA?), BN, JAX (surely Jacksonville, Fl), INM, ATL (Atlanta), TUSCA (Tuscaloosa?), LP, CIN. HE seems to most common, followed by JAX. I would also go for AUG and ATL, as they are recognizable and scream "South!". Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 11:14 AM Charlie Duckworth <omahaduck@...> wrote:
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Was there ever a clinic on Delano-based paint and weathering?
Andy Carlson
About 10 years ago, Richard Hendrickson gave a Naperville clinic on steam era weathering and how it differed markably from the post-steam era. To illustrate the idea, Richard's screen had a lot of Maxwell's pre-war Kodachrome shots of freight trains traversing through Colorado canyons. With D&RGW articulated power, many shots with mid-train and rear helpers. Dozens of freight car illustrating the extreme weathering captured brilliantly for such a cool time without of lot of color photos. As the subject was about how severe much of the freight cars' finishes were, Richard took advantage of some screens to make a point about some non-weathered issues of railroads. My favorite was when he pointed out a Grand Trunk Western box car, which may have been a single sheathed auto car among the consist of a beautiful freight train. The professor instincts came out as he asked "What is a GTW box car doing here in Tennesee Pass?" Some wag in the audience yelled out "about 10 miles per hour". Richard took audience participation as well as anyone, as we have seen over the years at the RPMs. Adding to his rail history, his sense of humor was a joy to be around and he was kind to the heckler. He left us way too early, and I miss him a lot. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA
On Saturday, November 14, 2020, 8:51:43 AM PST, devansprr <devans1@...> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 05:22 PM, Tony Thompson wrote:
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Re: ISTX 539 - piping rig
Andy Laurent
Attached is a second David Marcham photo of that train, posted after I sent the photo to you...Paul notes it as a Bogle weed sprayer, and there are a couple of Type 7 / TM-8 tank cars in the consist behind the ISTX car.
Cheers, Andy L. Wisconsin
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