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Re: NP 5418
Nice models, Rich!
On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 12:53 PM Paul Doggett via groups.io <paul.doggett2472=icloud.com@groups.io> wrote:
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Re: T-Section Trucks
vapeurchapelon
Hello friends,
what's with the Owl Mountain Models flat car truck?: http://www.owlmtmodels.com/2000-series/OMM_f-50-in-stock.jpg I do not have that model, but others on this list have built them. Hopefully the one or the other will say some words. At the picture these trucks look fine (to me), but I don't think they are available separately. Many greetings Johannes Modeling the early post-war years up to about 1953
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Re: T-Section Trucks
Tony Thompson
Jake Schaible wrote:
Unless you're a roller-bearing salesman, you probably meant "solid bearing" . . . <vbg> Tony Thompson
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Re: T-Section Trucks
Jake Schaible
For clarity sake, you mean friction bearing Bettendorf T-section Trucks ... made in HO not only by Kadee and Walthers (as has been mentioned), but once also by Red Caboose. MTH also used nice Bettendorf T Section trucks for use on various cars in HO - including used erroneously on it's PFE R-40-2. If you have this car, you may be able to swap. Finally, I recall hearing that Brian at Tahoe Model Works was working on producing such at one time, but don't see it was ever released. Speaking of Tahoe, not there are of course, other "T-Section" type trucks, most notably Andrews, which he did do in HO as a limited edition for the Northern Pacific group:
By the way, if any manufacturer is listening, Bettendorf T section trucks have LONG been on high on the wish list for us N scale modelers .... never been made in N. Detailed plans for such live at CSRM and I'd buy good ones (ex. injection molded POM) by the "truck load" in N, as they are the correct truck for the very popular Atlas PFE R-30-13 many other as built SP freight cars of the era.
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Re: P&LE USRA rebuild
Rich C
Great looking build, Brian. Your work motivates me to get mine started. Mine has been sitting for a long period too.
Rich Christie
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Re: NP 5418
James Brewer
Nice build Rich; excellent subtle weathering.
Jim Brewer
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Re: Detailing for early tank cars
Richard Townsend
The C&S used CB&Q and FW&D high walkway tank cars to bring fuel up from Texas. There often was one parked at the C&S enginehouse in Fort Collins for fueling the oil-burning steamers and, later, the diesels based there. Richard Townsend
Lincoln City, OR
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From: Charlie Vlk <cvlk@...> To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Sent: Sun, Jan 3, 2021 10:22 am Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Detailing for early tank cars All-
I recall seeing such CB&Q cars in (probably) company service during the late 1950s and maybe into the early 1960s.
Don’t recall the number series but it should be able to come up with them from the “Ownership, Age & Condition” rosters.
I model in N Scale and so far we don’t have any such cars to letter up.
Charlie Vlk
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of akerboomk
Sent: Sunday, January 3, 2021 12:00 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Detailing for early tank cars RE: High-platform tank cars
Note that anyone modeling a WW-II period “oil” tank car train could use a couple.
They weren’t many, but they did stand out in the pictures I have seen.
-- Ken Akerboom
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Re: P&LE USRA rebuild
Bob Chapman
Brian --
Once again, proving that persistence pays! Modeling looks great, and definitely a good start for a Happy New Year.
Bob Chapman
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Re: T-Section Trucks
Kenneth Montero
Walthers # 920-2007 (sprung trucks).
Kadee also makes the T-section truck with solid sides (no working springs) - # 572 and 724. The also make a leaf spring solid side truck - # 581 and 1581.
Red Caboose made a truck similar to the solid side Kadee truck, but I don't see it for sale on the InterMountain site.
Ken Montero
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Photo: Condemned UP Gondola 96604 (1934)
Photo: Condemned UP Gondola 96604 (1934) A photo from the Denver Public Library: https://digital.denverlibrary.org/digital/collection/p15330coll22/id/61279/rec/128 Click on the double-headed arrow and then scroll to enlarge the image. Fox trucks. Note "Hold" car tag. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Photo: N&W Gondola 101078 (1950)
Photo: N&W Gondola 101078 (1950) A photo from the Denver Public Library: https://digital.denverlibrary.org/digital/collection/p15330coll22/id/67494/rec/163 Click on the double-headed arrow and then scroll to enlarge the image. Description: Gondola 101078. Photographed: near Bluefield, W. Va., June 25, 1950. Built 1930. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Photo: UTLX Three-Compartment Tank Car 59762 (1935)
Photo: UTLX Three-Compartment Tank Car 59762 (1935) A photo from the Denver Public Library: https://digital.denverlibrary.org/digital/collection/p15330coll22/id/67212/rec/6 Click on the double-headed arrow and then scroll to enlarge the image. Built 1927. Inflammable placard. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Re: NP 5418
Tony Thompson
Very good-looking car, Rich. I have always liked 50-ft. single-sheath cars, especially ones with lots of diagonal braces, like this one.
Tony Thompson
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Re: T-Section Trucks
Tony Thompson
Remember, a view block with a small rectangle of black paper or plastic behind the springs hugely improves the look of the Kadee spring area. Tony Thompson
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Re: NP 5418
Paul Doggett
Rich
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It looks really good. Paul Doggett. England 🏴
On 3 Jan 2021, at 18:48, Richard Remiarz <rremiarz@...> wrote:
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NP 5418
Richard Remiarz
Yesterday I completed NP 5418, a 50’ single sheath auto boxcar built from a Speedwitch kit. I adding Intermountain 0.088” wheelsets to the TMW Dalman trucks, Kadee #178 coupers, and HiTech Details 6038 air hoses. The car was painted with TruColor TCP-193 NP 1930-45 Freight Car Brown.
Weathering was done by coloring random boards with Prismacolor 30% warm grey, terra cotta, light umber, Tuscan red, and sienna brown colored pencils. Pan Pastel Permanent Red Extra Dark was used to tone down the lettering and colored pencils, followed by Pan Pastel black for weathering. Speedwitch chalk mark decals were used, along with Polly Scale Grimy Black on the wheel faces and Polly Scale Rust on the couplers and trucks.
Sincerely, Rich Remiarz Vadnais Heights, MN
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Re: T-Section Trucks
Allan Smith
Walthers 933-1009 in the 2014 catalog. I have two sets of old Walthers 933-1003. Al Smith Sonora CA
On Sunday, January 3, 2021, 10:37:46 AM PST, Steve and Barb Hile <shile@...> wrote:
Kadee now has these in their HGC solid side frames.
Steve Hile
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of radiodial868
Anyone know of a HO source for the T-section trucks? I know of the Kadee version, but those flimsy springs and operation are a non-starter (plus look just silly)
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Re: T-Section Trucks
Kadee now has these in their HGC solid side frames.
Steve Hile
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of radiodial868
Sent: Sunday, January 3, 2021 12:27 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: [RealSTMFC] T-Section Trucks
Anyone know of a HO source for the T-section trucks? I know of the Kadee version, but those flimsy springs and operation are a non-starter (plus look just silly)
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Re: T-Section Trucks
Nelson Moyer
Try Walthers 920-2007.
Nelson Moyer
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io]
On Behalf Of radiodial868
Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2021 12:27 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: [RealSTMFC] T-Section Trucks
Anyone know of a HO source for the T-section trucks? I know of the Kadee version, but those flimsy springs and operation are a non-starter (plus look just silly)
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Re: T-Section Trucks
Steve Summers
I agree, the old Kadde truck springs look poor. Kadee makes a HGC (high gravity compound) version of this truck where the springs are solid, # 571 or 1571 with the semi scale wheels. They look much better and are heavier. Not perfect by any stretch but far better than the originals.
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On Jan 3, 2021, at 1:27 PM, radiodial868 <radiodial57@...> wrote:
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