--- In STMFC@..., "paul.doggett2472" <paul.doggett2472@...> wrote:

Hi All
I recently picked up a red caboose Meridan & Bigbee boxcar #900 as with all red caboose kits it has a Youngstown door and a Superior door which one is correct can anyone help please.

On 8/29/2013 4:50 PM, wolfhunt1987@... wrote:

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--- In STMFC@... , &lt;cepropst@...&gt; wrote:
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&gt; I know someone wanting to model a Dreadnaught w/heap shield C&amp;O style hopper car end and needs a photo.
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&gt; Thanks to anyone who can help!!
&gt; Clark Propst
&gt; Mason City Iowa
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--- In STMFC@..., <cepropst@...> wrote:

I know someone wanting to model a Dreadnaught w/heap shield C&O style hopper car end and needs a photo.

Thanks to anyone who can help!!
Clark Propst
Mason City Iowa

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From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] On Behalf Of Tim
O'Connor

But yeah, the "Dartnot" is better called an ACF Carbuilder end.

Tim O'Connor

In a message dated 8/29/2013 10:08:11 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
smithbf@... writes:




In a message dated 8/29/2013 10:08:11 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
smithbf@... writes:

Todd,

My brother had access to a laser through school and it left fuzzy, stepped
edges in places. Possibly workable, but not ideal. A higher end laser
might do a better job,


Regards

Bruce


Bruce F. Smith

Auburn, AL

https://www5.vetmed.auburn.edu/~smithbf/


"Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield."

On Aug 29, 2013, at 9:56 AM, Todd Horton wrote:

"Solution #2 - laser cut the letters from card stock and then decal.
Closer, but the cutter I used did not cut cleanly enough"

Bruce, Can you elaborate on this?

Todd Horton


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From: Bruce F. Smith <smithbf@...<mailto:smithbf@...>>
To: "<STMFC@...<mailto:STMFC@...>>"
<STMFC@...<mailto:STMFC@...>>
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: [STMFC] Re: Milk Car Placards



Folks,

Here's my challenge <G> SUPPLEE MILK placards (in HO).
http://www.trainweb.org/everett/library/hbtm/photos/hbtm37-bedford-195100000
02.jpg
http://www.trainweb.org/everett/library/hbtm/photos/hbtm37-bedford-195100000
01.jpg

Solution #1 - cut out the decal (that I printed) - Seriously? What was I
thinking? Cutting those complex letters with a hobby knife? I'm not that
good!
Solution #2 - laser cut the letters from card stock and then decal.
Closer, but the cutter I used did not cut cleanly enough
Solution #3 - etched brass. The masks are done, the brass is ready...
just need to etch me some letters! Maybe this weekend.... Once etched, I
will paint the letters white and decal them while still on the fret and then
cut them off, touch up the paint and apply to the car side.

Regards

Bruce

Bruce F. Smith


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On Aug 29, 2013, at 9:56 AM, Todd Horton wrote:

"Solution #2 - laser cut the letters from card stock and then decal. Closer, but the cutter I used did not cut cleanly enough"

Bruce, Can you elaborate on this?

Todd Horton


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From: Bruce F. Smith <smithbf@...<mailto:smithbf@...>>
To: "<STMFC@...<mailto:STMFC@...>>" <STMFC@...<mailto:STMFC@...>>
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: [STMFC] Re: Milk Car Placards



Folks,

Here's my challenge <G> SUPPLEE MILK placards (in HO).
http://www.trainweb.org/everett/library/hbtm/photos/hbtm37-bedford-19510000002.jpg
http://www.trainweb.org/everett/library/hbtm/photos/hbtm37-bedford-19510000001.jpg

Solution #1 - cut out the decal (that I printed) - Seriously? What was I thinking? Cutting those complex letters with a hobby knife? I'm not that good!
Solution #2 - laser cut the letters from card stock and then decal. Closer, but the cutter I used did not cut cleanly enough
Solution #3 - etched brass. The masks are done, the brass is ready... just need to etch me some letters! Maybe this weekend.... Once etched, I will paint the letters white and decal them while still on the fret and then cut them off, touch up the paint and apply to the car side.

Regards

Bruce

Bruce F. Smith

--- In STMFC@..., Indian640@... wrote:

Seems that there is some sort of temporal distortion on my STMFC feed since
I read the reply to this message earlier today. ;>)

Still, the idea posted then was a good one. I would use a piece of thin (I
used .010 clear on one of my Sheffield Farms cars) styrene as a backer to
the decal to reproduce the enameled signs. You can then coat it with pretty
much any finish that you are comfortable with without having the board
grooves show up behind it. Anything else is going to create more problems
than it solves..

BTW, just printing the sign out on thin cardstock works too..

Gents,


Further to Bill Schneider's suggestions I replicate the steel
placard signs from brass shim stock. A number of the shippers
with which I am interested (shipping via the NYO&W) applied
placards to leased milk cars, and some to shipper owned
cars. Those include Sheffield Farms, Muller Diaries, Jetter
Dairies and Dairymen's League.

I glue the shim stock to 1/32" plywood with good old fashioned
contact cement and the cut the placard to size with a jeweler's
saw. With the stock on the plywood I can file to size, and then
detach it by floating in lacquer thinner. The thin stick can be
embossed at the corners to simulate the attachment bolt
heads. Stuck to a paint stirring stick with carpet tape allows
me to paint the placard stock and then apply decals.

I also use a bench mounted shear to cut shim stock to size,
without the glue - plywood method.

Then shim stock backing works well with the decals printed
with or without the backing colors. The thin placards can be
applied to wood cars or steel cars, and to demountable tanks
where appropriate. The placard can be cemented to the car
sides with either canopy cement to Woodland Scenics
brush applied detail cement.

As Bill Schneider mentions placards can also be made
for shippers when decals are unavailable by creating them
using Corel, or another program on the computer and then
printing on heavy presentation paper.

Mal Houck

--- In STMFC@..., RUTLANDRS@... wrote:

It's simple, put on the Youngstown door, and Joe Crackerjack will come out
of the woodwork with a picture showing the Superior door, and he'll have 3
other photos and been on this list for 6 years.
Chuck Hladik


In a message dated 8/28/2013 3:49:03 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
timboconnor@... writes:





Paul, the M&B owned exactly ONE box car for many years -- I think it was
a second hand car and only a photograph could tell you which door to use!
But with only one car, probably not many pictures exist -- I've never seen
one. When you find out, let us know -- I have the same kit! :-)

Tim O'Connor

I got the number wrong its #500 not 900 as on original posting. Paul

Doggett England

I recently picked up a red caboose Meridan & Bigbee boxcar #900 ...

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The Oertly/McFall book "Western Maryland Railway Revenue Equipment: Boxcars and
Refrigerator Cars" liste WMRX 1- 15 as built 9, 10 1931 MDT for NRX, Leased 10-1956 to WM.

Jim Kubanick
Morgantown WV

> Can anyone in the group tell me what type of roof was used on the Kansas City Southern
> boxcars in the 16000-16499 series. These cars had 7/7 ends and were single sheathed. A
> photo of one of these cars appeared in a Mainline Modeler article by John Nehrich.
> Rick Dietrichson

Rick, I have several photos of these cars, and all show them with Murphy solid steel roofs.
As the earliest photo is dated 1936, it seems likely that these were the original roofs. By
the way, the ends were 7-8, not 7-7.

Richard Hendrickson

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From: cepropst@...
To: &quot;STMFC&quot; &lt; STMFC@... &gt;
Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2013 4:19:22 PM
Subject: [STMFC] C&amp;O hopper photo needed

I know someone wanting to model a Dreadnaught w/heap shield C&amp;O style hopper car end and needs a photo.

Thanks to anyone who can help!!
Clark Propst
Mason City Iowa

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