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Re: Adjusting the gondola fleet
... perhaps the best thing to do is to make up your own mind about how much equipment you will/will not have ... and then adjust if your find your crews complaining ... several ways to "adjust" that may/may not involve changing out which cars you will/will not have on your layout. - Jim
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Re: WTB: Tennessee Central Boxcar Decals
Your link doesn't work (it's doubled for some reason). Try this one:
https://www.protocraft.com/category.cfm?ItemID=965&Categoryid=20
Thanks! --
Brian Ehni
On 3/19/20, 6:15 PM, "Richard Brennan" <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io on behalf of rbrennan@...> wrote:
Protocraft has them in 1:48... <https://www.protocraft.com/category.cfm?ItemID=965&Categoryid=20>https://www.protocraft.com/category.cfm?ItemID=965&Categoryid=20
...but they seem to be doing some sets in 1:87.1 as well. Perhaps an inquiry there?
-------------------- Richard Brennan - San Leandro CA --------------------
At 02:19 PM 3/19/2020, Allen Cain wrote: >I am looking for a set of HO scale decals for a >Tennessee Central Boxcar in the 7900-7999 series >that would be appropriate for 1955. If you >have any, please let me know off list. >I know that Campbell Road made a set of dry >transfers WT-29 but I believe these to be the >later block lettering scheme but do not have a set to check. > >Or if you know of a source, I would appreciate getting the lead from you.
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Re: Photo: Barrels in A Boxcar
Clark Propst
A good friend hired on one of the local plants around 1950. He said they were using cloth sacks at the time and remembered vividly how the sacks were cleaned and repaired. He said they switched to paper in the early 50s. I wrote something up on this, maybe with closer dates in an article in the Nov 08 RMC.
I've attached a excel sheet with some sack loads from waybills. I haven't seen the waybills, just given the info. CW Propst
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Re: Flattening resin parts
Lester Breuer
Eric a new method to add to the traditional oven method. Thanks.
Lester Breuer
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Flattening resin parts
Eric Hansmann
I recently had to flatten a few parts for a resin boxcar kit. I've posted an outline of the process on my blog.
Eric Hansmann
Murfreesboro, TN
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Re: WTB: Tennessee Central Boxcar Decals
You also might want to try Jim King as he may have a set or two left for the TC boxcar kits he manufactured Fenton
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 5:41 AM O Fenton Wells <srrfan1401@...> wrote:
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Re: WTB: Tennessee Central Boxcar Decals
Allen got to eBay on the "my eBay" page and type in Tennessee Central in the search box and a bunch of decals for TC will come up by a company called K4 out of Dayton OH. No boxcar but hopper and gon that you may be able to make work. Check them out Fenton
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 7:15 PM Richard Brennan <rbrennan@...> wrote: Protocraft has them in 1:48... --
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Re: WTB: Tennessee Central Boxcar Decals
Barry Bennett
Beware of the Protocraft decals as these are for a refurbished/rebuilt version with steel running boards and a diagonal panel roof. Barry Bennett, UK.
On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 at 23:15, Richard Brennan <rbrennan@...> wrote: Protocraft has them in 1:48...
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Re: WTB: Tennessee Central Boxcar Decals
Benjamin Scanlon
Wood gondola, and twin hopper from K4 if that is any good to you?
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=tennessee+central+decal+k4&_sacat=0 -- Ben Scanlon Tottenham, England
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Re: Photo: Barrels in A Boxcar
Donald B. Valentine <riverman_vt@...>
Garth and all, For what it's worth it is pager #329 from the 1937 Car Nuilders Cyclopedia, teh 14th edition. I also have the 13th edition from 1931 which is devoid of any sort of covered hopper. It has more different gondolas, however, than one could ever imagine! Cordially, Don Valentine
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Re: Adjusting the gondola fleet
np328
After reading all the later comments, I find myself agreeing with Brian Carlson, very strongly. Or here: I kept seeing the very same Erie Lackawanna gondola being switched into a steel fabricating plant next door, week after week after week.
Can I rephrase that into: On this big railroad in this big country, I saw this same car week after week. I ask - What are the odds? Or somewhat like when Rick Blain stated “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.” See the dichotomy? And that is real life, because of the extreme odds, we notice it. And Tony states this can be fully prototypical. And I concur with all of that. I do. I have read AFE’s for a handful of cars to be purchased to serve in captive service. OK, here is part two. Folks in a small town will run into people they know more often than folks in a large town will. It is simple mathematics. And it does not happen because it is a big world, which it is, it more over happens because the odds in the small town overwhelm the odds of the world at large.* So: A large layout you will eventually see the same car and maybe you will have forgotten, however the third time it happens? We do not have an empty supermarket of space in which to model. Are you trying to portray your railroad as a part of a larger world? On a smaller railroad, the odds of seeing the same car become apparent sooner than later. However on a larger layout, and Schuyler noted this “with that spacing out of the sessions and I can think right now of about five cars that show up randomly, every four or five months, when they show up in the yard, I don’t have to look at the waybill – I know what train I should put it in.” The moment of awareness that suddenly – the layout is smaller because of these same cars appear – never goes away, the odds of it are just delayed. Again - Are you trying to portray your railroad as a part of a larger world? Then after a lot of research, and taking the time to model interchanges, and place distant names on waybills, why do actions* to oppose that? What got me thinking about all this? Schuyler's comment: Much more engaging of brain and pleasure. That is what we all hope would be said about our layout, either built or dreamed. And the way there follows with what Brian has been espousing. Jim Dick – Roseville, MN
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Re: D&RGW 65500 SS 1.5 door car
Scott
Denver Public Library shows a new roof drawing from September 1933 so they might have got a new roof after that date. Unfortunately they don't show a General Arrangement drawing of it. Maybe the Colorado Railroad Museum has it in their collection. There is a Hand Brakes drawing from 1941 so maybe that's when they got AB brakes but hard to say without seeing the drawing.
Scott McDonald
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Re: WTB: Tennessee Central Boxcar Decals
Protocraft has them in 1:48...
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<https://www.protocraft.com/category.cfm?ItemID=965&;Categoryid=20>https://www.protocraft.com/category.cfm?ItemID=965&;Categoryid=20 ...but they seem to be doing some sets in 1:87.1 as well. Perhaps an inquiry there? -------------------- Richard Brennan - San Leandro CA --------------------
At 02:19 PM 3/19/2020, Allen Cain wrote:
I am looking for a set of HO scale decals for a Tennessee Central Boxcar in the 7900-7999 series that would be appropriate for 1955. If you have any, please let me know off list.
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D&RGW 65500 SS 1.5 door car
David
I think the Radial roof from an Atlas C&O 1932 car kit might be appropriate.That one is a Cambre radial- different panel count. The roof on the D&RGW box appears to be a Murphy radial; I'd recommend cutting off and shortening the roof of the MDC 50' s/s auto box. David Thompson
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Re: WTB: Tennessee Central Boxcar Decals
hubert mask
Unfortunately we have not got down the list for box car decals but for future reference we do offer a locomotive decal TC.
On Mar 19, 2020, at 5:19 PM, Allen Cain <Allencaintn@...> wrote:
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WTB: Tennessee Central Boxcar Decals
Allen Cain
I am looking for a set of HO scale decals for a Tennessee Central Boxcar in the 7900-7999 series that would be appropriate for 1955. If you have any, please let me know off list. I know that Campbell Road made a set of dry transfers WT-29 but I believe these to be the later block lettering scheme but do not have a set to check. Or if you know of a source, I would appreciate getting the lead from you. Thank you, Allen Cain
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Re: Adjusting the gondola fleet
Donald B. Valentine <riverman_vt@...>
Brian Carlson wrote: 'Who models their fleet based on staging? (Other than maybe Clark P) you should have some off-layout storage also or you’re gonna get bored with the same cars and your operators will begin to know where to route a car automatically.' Respectfully, Brian, I'm going to suggest that this depends on the size of one's pike, the number of different industries on it and the size of one's car fleet. If one has a 3 x 12 home pike I would probably agree with you but not for a larger one. By the same tken I know many folks who hace far more rolling stock than can really be justified, amny of whom hace no pike ot operate them on. At this time I'm one of them. LOL Cordialy, Don Valentine
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Re: Adjusting the gondola fleet
Schuyler Larrabee
Schuyler Larrabee wrote:
And I agree. But remember that train crews who did the same job every day could recognize where nearly everything in the train was going, when they walked it when going on duty. That we may know where we are going to spot that meat reefer or high-pressure tank car is perfectly prototypical.
Tony Thompson
And as soon as I sent that out, I remembered that 26-27 years ago, when I was designing an engineering firm’s offices and meeting with them regularly, I kept seeing the very same Erie Lackawanna gondola being switched into a steel fabricating plant next door, week after week after week. The gon went directly inside the building, so I never got a photo of this, but it is the prototypical exception that proves the point made before.
Schuyler _._,_._,_
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Re: Wright Track Kit Instructions Found
It was probably that "Nashville Sound" that took them worldwide. Chuck Peck
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 4:43 PM Allen Cain <Allencaintn@...> wrote:
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Re: Wright Track Kit Instructions Found
Allen Cain
Thanks to all who responded. And a special thanks to Kai Solvei all the way in Norway. Who would have thought that these Tennessee Central box car instructions would have been found in Norway? Guess the range of the TC cars was farther than expected?😀 Allen Cain
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