I have been trying to email Intermountain witout success.? I get a message that their email address does not exist.? I have tried intermountain@... and mail@....?? The first of these is what is on Intermountain's website, and the second comes from my return notices.? Anybody have any suggestions?


Richard Townsend
Lincoln City, Oregon

Andy,



A friend of mine underwent this kind of surgery 15 years ago and is pretty
well.



All my best



Marcelo Lordeiro

www.mrcustom.com.br

trens@...

Tel.: +55 21 2273-2758



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Assunto: [STMFC] FW: Andy Sperandeo



Andy's a long time member of this list, and I thought most
of us will want to wish Andy a swift and full recovery.

Tim O'Connor

*Paul Catapano says: received this from Andy tonight:*

Hello all,

Again, please excuse this group mailing, but I wanted
to let you all know that I'm going in for my cancer
surgery on Monday. The surgeon will remove my left lung,
but I expect a good outcome overall. I saw an
oncologist last Monday to make sure that surgery was the best
option, and I'm now convinced that it is. The form of
cancer that I have is pretty rare, and it's one that
doesn't respond to chemotherapy and is affected only
slightly by radiation. That makes surgery the best if
not the only choice, and the long-term survival rates
after surgery to remove this cancer are very good. I
don't have all the e-mail addresses that I have at work
on file here at home, so if you know of anyone who'd
be interested who isn't on this mailing list, feel free
to let them know. I'll be a Waukesha Memorial
Hospital once again, but I expect to be home by Friday at the
latest.

I'll be seeing you,

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*Paul Catapano says: received this from Andy tonight:*

Hello all,

Again, please excuse this group mailing, but I wanted
to let you all know that I'm going in for my cancer
surgery on Monday. The surgeon will remove my left lung,
but I expect a good outcome overall. I saw an
oncologist last Monday to make sure that surgery was the best
option, and I'm now convinced that it is. The form of
cancer that I have is pretty rare, and it's one that
doesn't respond to chemotherapy and is affected only
slightly by radiation. That makes surgery the best if
not the only choice, and the long-term survival rates
after surgery to remove this cancer are very good. I
don't have all the e-mail addresses that I have at work
on file here at home, so if you know of anyone who'd
be interested who isn't on this mailing list, feel free
to let them know. I'll be a Waukesha Memorial
Hospital once again, but I expect to be home by Friday at the
latest.

I'll be seeing you,

I've been thinking about this, and you have made a good point. I
would have to wonder if the aluminum sheathing would have been
somewhat dulled, and perhaps even showing the effects of galvanic
action where steel fasteners were attached to the aluminum sheathing.

I know that the GM&O had some aluminum-sheathed cars built around the
same time, 1945/46. Perhaps a few other roads as well. This seems
to have been an industry experiment post-WWII. Can anyone relate
what the cars looked like after ten years' service? You would think
that the railroads would have been monitoring the durability of this
material in freight car use.

Steve Lucas.

--- In STMFC@..., "jim_mischke" <jmischke@> wrote:

Ten years service would make the boxcar aluminum finish very

dull.

The aluminum foil technique would be inferior to paint, and five
times the work. This boxcar is not a well cared for airplane.

Consider researching what military modelers use for various bare
metals. These guys and their vendor base have solved many

modeling

problems, yet there is little cross fertilzation between our hobby
and theirs.

There is some military dull metal finish paint that will get you an
acceptable look for your aluminum shealthed boxcar.











--- In STMFC@..., "Steve Lucas" <stevelucas3@> wrote:

On the weekend, I picked up a couple of True line Trains' HO 40'

CN

boxcars. Very nice models, but with a few very small issues that

can

be easily taken care of. One car that I purchased models a CN

aluminum-

sided boxcar, CN 521498, one of three experimental aluminum

sheathed

cars built in 1946--

http://imagescn.technomuses.ca/railways/index_view.cfm?photoid=-
1936671483&id=55

And here's the True Line Trains' model--

http://www.modeltrains.com/PICTURES/PICTURES%20-%20Non-brass-

1/True%

20Line%20Trains/TLT-000001-399999/tlt-300034-1%20copy.jpg

I'm not totally satisfied with the use of aluminum paint to

simulate

aluminum sheathing on this car, and would like your comments on a
better method to model this. Perhaps aluminum foil? On the

other

hand, as I am modelling a timeframe ten years after this car was

built,

would the paint on the model approximate (maybe with some

weathering)

ten-year-old aluminum sheathing?

Thanks in advance,

Steve Lucas.

On Aug 3, 2008, at 3:13 PM, Brian J Carlson wrote:

I working on a roster of MP boxcars for my layout today. I'm
interested in
modeling one of the Alternate ARA SS cars rebuilds. Sunshine has kits
39.8
and 39.10 per the Sunshine price list off Jim Hayes site. The
difference
between the cars is the ends, either murphy or dreadnaught. It
appears 4000
of the 4938 of the Alternate ARA SS cars were delivered with murphy
ends.
Therefore, they would seem to be more common for rebuilds too.
However,
does anyone (Ed Hawkins) know for certain which car more likely to be
rebuilt? Thanks.

Brian,
I spelled out this information in my article in RP CYC #14 to the
extent that available information would allow. Each series is shown in
the roster with the type of ends specified. ORER data is also specified
to show how the all-steel rebuilt XM and XME cars were phased in while
the original SS cars were phased out. Use the numbers for the date that
most closely fits your period of interest.

I also indicated on page 34 which series of cars could be accurately
modeled using Sunshine's kits. Any series that are not listed on page
34 had ends that were unique to one group, and Sunshine chose not to
offer ends that were less commonly used (such as the 42000-series steel
rebuilds having 5/2/6 Murphy ends).

Does the information contained in the article not provide what you are
looking for?
Regards,
Ed Hawkins




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Yahoo! Groups Links

--- In STMFC@..., "benjaminfrank_hom" <b.hom@...> wrote:

"Was production sold to retail outlets (i.e., local coal dealers) or
did it all go to industrial consumers? In other words, would a
Berwind hopper show up in a way-freight or on a shortline?"

There's a picture of a Central Vermont wayfreight in the STMFC list Files section that shows a
Berwind hopper on a CV local in Willimantic, Connecticut.

http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/QA6WSIkhqGoUNGiO9jp2Mr-
21wKuO1fFBpGonLQK7aOOQXYKOlbMPHcuJZQXTrk5UhyuQctvj6hpphHt61Ya8ymTbQ/Central
%20Vermont%20Local%20Freight/Willi1notes.jpg

Marty