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Re: UTLX Decals.

Bruce Smith
 

On Wed, December 14, 2005 4:53 pm, jamesfellows@... wrote:
Is the Tichy tnak with the large dome even close to anything? I have one
built that I would like to paint and letter.
Jim,

Well, it depends on what you mean "close". I'll admit that I built one
kit according to the instructions, painted it black, used Champ's UTLX
decals, and used it to test weathing methods. In all likelihood, it will
show up in my tank car trains for my fellow tank car fans to try to spot.
Of course, I'll only ask AFTER the train rolls by if they noticed anything
<VBG - the infamous Mike Brock boxcar test!>. If you pay attention to
tank car details it jumps out at you as being the oddball. Of course, as
I noted, the tank can be used for the USG-A car bash and the frame for a
NATX bash so those parts are "close", just to different cars!!!!

Regards
Bruce

Bruce Smith
Auburn, AL
[NYC-Railroad] MDT/NYC reefers

Roger Hinman <rhinman@...>
 

FYI, see below message relatiing to the white/yellow discussion.

Begin forwarded message:

From: dale florence <dwwesley@...>
Date: December 13, 2005 7:33:45 PM EST
To: NYC-Railroad@...
Subject: Re: [NYC-Railroad] MDT/NYC reefers
Reply-To: NYC-Railroad@...

FYI - During the late 50's, I walked a little over a
mile to high school. My daily walk took me along
Gibson Yard in Hammond to Columbia Ave, which was
located at the west end of Gibson yard. I remember in
the late 50's seeing dirty old white wood MDT reefers,
whole strings of them. Mixed in were orange/yellow
cars. By 1960, never saw a white reefer again.

Dale Florence

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Re: Roofs on MEC single-sheathed boxcars

Tim O'Connor
 

Have you looked at Railmodel Journal, Feb 1993?

Does anyone know what kind of roof was applied to the following series
of Maine Central single-sheathed boxcars:

MEC 35001-35300
MEC 35652-35901

Thanks,
Mark Heiden
N&W class F2 pulpwood car

Fred Mullins
 

Folks,
I need some good photos of a N&W class F2 pulpwood car. Anybody
have any that they can scan or make copies of? I need them for
modeling purposes! Are there any drawing of this car available?
Thanks in advance for any help!
Merry Christmas!
Fred Mullins
modeling the Atlantic & Danville
remember "For Service See......the A&D!"
Re: UTLX Decals.

jaley <jaley@...>
 

Bruce,

Could you perhaps expand your list to include non-riveted cars? I
am aware of cars by Red Caboose and Atlas in HO, and I suspect there are
others that I've missed.

Regards,

-Jeff

On Dec 14, 4:34pm, Bruce Smith wrote:
Subject: Re: [STMFC] UTLX Decals.
As I noted before, your choices for accurate, non-brass, steam era
riveted tank cars in HO are LL P2K AC&F type 21, IM type 27 and
Sunshine X-3 (resin). Precision scale also makes a kit that can be
modified to be an accurate UTLX "Van Dyke" frameless tank car (class
V). We do expect resin Standard Tank Car vertical course tank cars
from Southern Car and Foundry shortly... and maybe, just maybe some
others in plastic (General American as well as an AC&F type 11 sure
would be nice!).

Regards
Bruce
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Intel Corporation, Folsom, CA
(916) 356-3533
Re: UTLX Decals.

James Fellows
 

Is the Tichy tnak with the large dome even close to anything? I have one buit that I would like to paint and letter.

Thanks,

Jim Fellows

-------------- Original message --------------
From: Bruce Smith <smithbf@...>

On Dec 14, 2005, at 3:29 PM, Arnold wrote:

Sirs,

Me again.............
I will order in the future the 2 tankcars by tichy (4020 & 4025).
Are these kits good?
Arnold,

No!!! <VBG> Alas, as far as we can tell it does not represent any
tank car ever built. This is unfortunate, since the kit itself is
very nicely done. For those of us who have the Tichy kits, the tank
can be used as kitbash material with the Intermountain type 27
underframe to create a USG-A WWII era war emergency tank car. In
addition, it is possible to use the frames from this kit for an NATX
kitbash.

As I noted before, your choices for accurate, non-brass, steam era
riveted tank cars in HO are LL P2K AC&F type 21, IM type 27 and
Sunshine X-3 (resin). Precision scale also makes a kit that can be
modified to be an accurate UTLX "Van Dyke" frameless tank car (class
V). We do expect resin Standard Tank Car vertical course tank cars
from Southern Car and Foundry shortly... and maybe, just maybe some
others in plastic (General American as well as an AC&F type 11 sure
would be nice!).

Regards
Bruce

Bruce F. Smith
Auburn, AL
http://www.vetmed.auburn.edu/~smithbf/

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Re: UTLX Decals.

Bruce Smith
 

On Dec 14, 2005, at 3:29 PM, Arnold wrote:

Sirs,

Me again.............
I will order in the future the 2 tankcars by tichy (4020 & 4025).
Are these kits good?
Arnold,

No!!! <VBG> Alas, as far as we can tell it does not represent any tank car ever built. This is unfortunate, since the kit itself is very nicely done. For those of us who have the Tichy kits, the tank can be used as kitbash material with the Intermountain type 27 underframe to create a USG-A WWII era war emergency tank car. In addition, it is possible to use the frames from this kit for an NATX kitbash.

As I noted before, your choices for accurate, non-brass, steam era riveted tank cars in HO are LL P2K AC&F type 21, IM type 27 and Sunshine X-3 (resin). Precision scale also makes a kit that can be modified to be an accurate UTLX "Van Dyke" frameless tank car (class V). We do expect resin Standard Tank Car vertical course tank cars from Southern Car and Foundry shortly... and maybe, just maybe some others in plastic (General American as well as an AC&F type 11 sure would be nice!).

Regards
Bruce

Bruce F. Smith
Auburn, AL
http://www.vetmed.auburn.edu/~smithbf/

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Re: UTLX Decals.

jaley <jaley@...>
 

Hi Arnold,

Sadly, these are not correct for UTLX either. I believe you can
search the archives for "Tichy" and "Tank" and get a full explanation of
these nicely-tooled but inaccurate cars.

Regards,

-Jeff

On Dec 14, 9:29pm, Arnold wrote:
Subject: [STMFC] UTLX Decals.
Sirs,

Me again.............
I will order in the future the 2 tankcars by tichy (4020 & 4025).
Are these kits good?
And are they correct for UTLX decals?
Is so, who is the manufacturer for these decals?
It's a 10.000 gallon car.

Regards,
Arnold van Heyst
Netherlands.
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DPG Chipsets Product Engineering
Intel Corporation, Folsom, CA
(916) 356-3533
Re: UTLX Decals.

Tim O'Connor
 

Arnold, they are wonderful kits of a non-existent prototype, and as
such they are not correct for any reporting mark, including UTLX. So
go ahead and letter them any way you like!

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Arnold" <mrdata1968@...>
Sirs,

Me again.............
I will order in the future the 2 tankcars by tichy (4020 & 4025).
Are these kits good?
And are they correct for UTLX decals?
Is so, who is the manufacturer for these decals?
It's a 10.000 gallon car.
UTLX Decals.

Arnold van Heyst
 

Sirs,

Me again.............
I will order in the future the 2 tankcars by tichy (4020 & 4025).
Are these kits good?
And are they correct for UTLX decals?
Is so, who is the manufacturer for these decals?
It's a 10.000 gallon car.

Regards,
Arnold van Heyst
Netherlands.
Refrigerator Cars (Reefers) History

seaboard_1966
 

Some may find this interesting.

http://www.chiptin.com/schlitz/reefers.htm

D Blake
Re: Best source of lettering for HO B&O M-15 wagon-top rebuild

jim_mischke <jmischke@...>
 

Color was "Freight Car Brown" in B&O literature.

It's the color of Kiwi brown shoe polish.

Westerfield sells older decals



--- In STMFC@..., Rob Adams <steamera@n...> wrote:

Can someone recommend an HO scale lettering set for the B&O M-15
steel
rebuilds as they would have appeared Circa 1938. Also, an
appropriate
paint color (or mix). I prefer Scalecoat I or Floquil.

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards, Rob Adams

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the Wabash Bluffs, IL to Keokuk branch,
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Re: VGN yard

Denny Anspach <danspach@...>
 

What interests me is the profusion of stock cars, not something with which one might ordinarily associate this penultimate purpose-built coal hauler. In all, a fascinating railroad.

Denny

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Re: can't open the Sinclair Consolidated Oil image

Gatwood, Elden <Elden.Gatwood@...>
 

Ed;
I had to delete all sorts of spaces and ">" to get the right link.
There is also a question make at the end of the first string, that did
not paste properly.

My eyesight may be bad, but these tanks mainly appear to be SDRX cars,
but the interesting thing is how many are either radial course, or 4
horizontal course cars. There appear to be both AC&F and GATC-produced
cars in this shot.

I think Ed Kaminiski's great AQC&F tank car book contains at least one
photo of an early Sinclair car, with that white band around the dome. I
can't say I have seen them elsewhere, but I did not get to look through
all the pics.

Elden Gatwood

-----Original Message-----
From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] On Behalf Of
ed_mines
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 8:33 AM
To: STMFC@...
Subject: [STMFC] can't open the Sinclair Consolidated Oil image

--- In STMFC@..., "Eric Hansmann" <ehansmann@a...> wrote:

And here's another neat image from the NYPL:

<http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgdisplaylargemeta.cfm?
strucID=131768&imageID=95134&word=railroad&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&lWord=
&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&num=408&imgs=12&total=1847&pos=415>
Anyone else have this problem? Know a soluion?

Ed







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Re: can't open the Sinclair Consolidated Oil image

losgatos48@...
 

Ed:
I have the same problem so I just went the NYPL site and searched under oil and found the pictures in question.

Gene

-------------- Original message --------------
From: "ed_mines" <ed_mines@...>

--- In STMFC@..., "Eric Hansmann" wrote:

And here's another neat image from the NYPL:

strucID=131768&imageID=95134&word=railroad&s=1¬word=&d=&c=&f=&lWord=
&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&num=408&imgs=12&total=1847&pos=415>
Anyone else have this problem? Know a soluion?

Ed







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Re: can't open the Sinclair Consolidated Oil image

jerryglow2
 

I could get a page with the description to come up but no image.

Jerry Glow

--- In STMFC@..., "ed_mines" <ed_mines@y...> wrote:

--- In STMFC@..., "Eric Hansmann" <ehansmann@a...> wrote:

And here's another neat image from the NYPL:

<http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgdisplaylargemeta.cfm?
strucID=131768&imageID=95134&word=railroad&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&lWord=
&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&num=408&imgs=12&total=1847&pos=415>

Anyone else have this problem? Know a soluion?

Ed
can't open the Sinclair Consolidated Oil image

ed_mines
 

--- In STMFC@..., "Eric Hansmann" <ehansmann@a...> wrote:

And here's another neat image from the NYPL:

<http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgdisplaylargemeta.cfm?
strucID=131768&imageID=95134&word=railroad&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&lWord=
&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&num=408&imgs=12&total=1847&pos=415>
Anyone else have this problem? Know a soluion?

Ed
Re: Sinclair Consolidated Oil image

Miller, Andrew S. <asmiller@...>
 

Besides the two-dome car already noted, I am curious about the white
stripe around the domes of the cars in the first row, and what the gons
on the adjacent track might be for.


regards,

Andy Miller

-----Original Message-----
From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] On Behalf Of
Eric Hansmann
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 4:02 PM
To: STMFC@...
Subject: [STMFC] Sinclair Consolidated Oil image

And here's another neat image from the NYPL:

<http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgdisplaylargemeta.cfm?
strucID=131768&imageID=95134&word=railroad&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&lWord=
&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&num=408&imgs=12&total=1847&pos=415>


Subject(s):Fuel tanks, Railroad facilities

Notes:Courtesy of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation, New York.

Digital ID:95134

Come in handy after recent tank car conversations.

Eric Hansmann
Morgantown, W. Va.








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Roofs on MEC single-sheathed boxcars

Mark Heiden
 

Hello everyone,

Does anyone know what kind of roof was applied to the following series
of Maine Central single-sheathed boxcars:

MEC 35001-35300
MEC 35652-35901

Thanks,
Mark Heiden
Re: VGN yard

Schuyler Larrabee
 


Interesting photo! Did anyone else note that the cars do not
appear to be loaded with coal? I wonder what the story was?

Elden Gatwood
Elden, why do you think that's not coal? I mean, it's not nice shiny black diamonds, but OTOH, a
lot of coal was essentially 'combustible dirt.'

SGL
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