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Re: Univ of KY Digital Archives
rwitt_2000
B&O class M-55h did have Duryea underframes.
Bob Witt
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Rapido Reefer Paint Color Comparison
Nelson Moyer
Here are three variations on reefer orange and reefer yellow. The Wilson car is definitely orange. The Scalecoat II 1 to 5 mix approximates the Wilson color. The Kingan car is medium orange-yellow, and the Swift car is light orange-yellow (actually more orange than the photo shows, but not as orange as the Kingan car). Lights are 5000 K. The swift car isn’t a bright reefer yellow but yellow with a hint of orange. I think Rapido did a better job of color matching than Atlas.
Nelson Moyer
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Re: Steel running boards for PFE R-70-2
Richard Townsend
I would like one, too. Richard Townsend
Lincoln City, OR
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From: peteraue via Groups.Io <peteraue@...> To: main <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Sent: Fri, Jun 14, 2019 3:06 am Subject: [RealSTMFC] Steel running boards for PFE R-70-2 A good friend wants to modernize his Sunshine kits # 25.1/2/3 and put
Apex Trilock running boards on his R-70-2 reefers. He asked me to
provide him with custom photo-etched RBs with accurate spacing to match
the ribs on the roof. There will be a very limited number of extra parts
for others. Please raise your hand if you want them. $ 5 each plus
shipping. Delivery time approximately 3 months. First come, first serve.
Peter Aue
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Re: Ventilated Boxcar for Grain Rush
Eric Hansmann
A square herald to the right of the door might identify that as a Central of Georgia ventilated boxcar.
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Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN
On Jun 14, 2019, at 3:03 PM, gary laakso <vasa0vasa@...> wrote:
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Re: Steel running boards for PFE R-70-2
Tony Thompson
Peter, I’d like one.
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Tony Thompson
On Jun 14, 2019, at 3:06 AM, peteraue via Groups.Io <peteraue=yahoo.de@groups.io> wrote:
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Re: Paint Scheme for Swift 6700 Series Reefers
Nelson Moyer
Thanks for posting the model photos, however, I think Rapido is closer to reality. Atlas is too yellow. Maybe I should post a photo of my Rapido models.
Nelson Moyer
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io]
On Behalf Of Todd Sullivan via Groups.Io
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2019 6:18 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Paint Scheme for Swift 6700 Series Reefers
Atlas model reefer photos ...
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Re: Throwback Thursday Old Kitbash PRR NX23 cabin car
Bill Keene
Chuck,
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Good work. Looking at your work get the juices flowing and out to the workbench. I also agree with eliminating the big couplers … but … would recommend Sergent Engineering’s couplers. They both look and work great. Thanks for kicking my modeling into motion. Maybe something will get done this weekend. Cheers, Bill Keene Irvine, CA
On Jun 14, 2019, at 7:29 AM, Denny Anspach <danspachmd@gmail.com> wrote:
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Re: Paint Scheme for Swift 6700 Series Reefers
Todd Sullivan
Atlas model reefer photos ...
Todd Sullivan.
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Re: Paint Scheme for Swift 6700 Series Reefers
Todd Sullivan
About 8-9 years ago, I did a lot of work on a fleet of 28 Atlas Swift reefers for a friend of mine with a large layout. I studied all the color photos I could find (there are not many), and did a lot of detail painting and car renumbering as well as painting up and decaling two different yellow schemes. My reading of the yellow that Swift used is that it was a little more orange than Floquil's Reefer Yellow, so I added a small amount Reefer Orange and perhaps a touch of some freight car red color. It seemed reasonably close. As for black parts on red cars, I agree generally with Richard Townsend's comments. One of the most interesting things about the red wooden cars was the fact that Swift painted the sides and ends and left the roofs alone, unless the roofs were painted silver. The unpainted roofs seemed to be repainted board-by-board with all kinds of red hues from new Swift red to light pink and even shades of gray where the paint was completely gone. I'll see if I can find a photo or two of the models and post them with this.
BTW, one of the small color books on the anthracite country railroads had a down-on shot of a CNJ yard with 2-3 Swift reefers in both the red and yellow schemes. Todd Sullivan
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Re: Paint Scheme for Swift 6700 Series Reefers
Nelson Moyer
Sunshine instructions for the Swift 6700 series in the yellow banner scheme suggest chrome yellow (very bright) or a Scalecoat II mix (1 part reefer orange and 5 parts reefer yellow), but that is way to orange and looks nothing like chrome yellow so go figure! I know this because I’m building two of these kits except in the red scheme. Martin also recommended that same Scalecoat II mix for the NRC and MDT reefers, which I’m also building, and there he called it squash yellow and pumpkin yellow, but it’s too orange for squash (except butternut maybe) and looks more like the inside of a pumpkin. Maybe your best bet is to color match the yellow-orange color on Rapido’s recent Swift reefers. I think they got it right. You can get that color by starting with the 1 to 5 Scalecoat II mix and adding more yellow until you get the color match. I have some of the Rapido reefers in the Swift banner scheme, and they’re a light orange – definitely not straight reefer yellow and lighter than Martin’s 1 to 5 pumpkin orange mix.
Nelson Moyer
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Re: Throwback Thursday Old Kitbash PRR NX23 cabin car
Chuck Cover
Hi Bob,
Thanks for the comments. The Cannonball Car shops kits were flat styrene kits. For their time, they had pretty good detail.
The trucks that I used were Kadee’s version of the PRR 2DF8 trucks. These are shown in the prototype photo that you posted.
Chuck Cover
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Re: Paint Scheme for Swift 6700 Series Reefers
Marty McGuirk
Fenton,
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Consider Yellow Ochre, perhaps lightened just a touch with some white. Marty
On Jun 14, 2019, at 3:43 PM, O Fenton Wells <srrfan1401@...> wrote:
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Re: Throwback Thursday Old Kitbash PRR NX23 cabin car
rwitt_2000
A really fine looking model. I assume this was the polystyrene kit.
Trying not to nit-pic, but what about the trucks shouldn't they be some PRR type truck. Regards, Bob Witt
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Re: Paint Scheme for Swift 6700 Series Reefers
Nelson Moyer
I’ll look at the RMJ and MR articles. I’ve learned not to trust model photos, as even some cars in Sunshine instructions and PDSs are built and/ or painted wrong, e.g. cross bearers and/or cross ties positioned wrong and silver roof on reefers here builder’s photos were airbrushed. Model photos in old publication are particularly unreliable as little prototype information might be available when they were built. Color me skeptic.
Nelson Moyer
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io]
On Behalf Of Richard Townsend via Groups.Io
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2019 2:02 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Paint Scheme for Swift 6700 Series Reefers
The Feb 1993 RMJ has color photos of models built from these kits, that might answer your questions. I have only a low-res scan and can't tell. In the Oct 1953 MR Paul Larsen has an article on building a Swift reefer in the red scheme from a different number series. He had the prototype car in front of him. He said the sill steps and underframe were black. Sides and ends red, except under the door, where black was uses. He said nothing about a different color for the end sill. Looking at other color photos of other red Swift cars (all from other number series), the sill steps under the doors are always black. At the ends of the sides, the sill steps appear to vary, with red used if the sides are steel, and sometimes red, sometimes black if the sides are wood (black especially if these is a black metal plate above the step - looks like a wrap-around from the end sill). The end sills also appear to be black when that plate is on the sides. Sometimes they appear to be black even without that plate, but usually red. In many cases, heavy weathering makes color determinations difficult, with everything in question just a dirty gray. Suggested solution: weather. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR
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Re: Steel running boards for PFE R-70-2
Ed Sommer
Peter, I'll take two of these running boards if available. Thanks, Ed Sommer San Jose, CA
On Friday, June 14, 2019, 3:06:53 AM PDT, peteraue via Groups.Io <peteraue@...> wrote:
A good friend wants to modernize his Sunshine kits # 25.1/2/3 and put Apex Trilock running boards on his R-70-2 reefers. He asked me to provide him with custom photo-etched RBs with accurate spacing to match the ribs on the roof. There will be a very limited number of extra parts for others. Please raise your hand if you want them. $ 5 each plus shipping. Delivery time approximately 3 months. First come, first serve. Peter Aue -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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Re: Paint Scheme for Swift 6700 Series Reefers
Thanks Brian, Fenton
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 3:42 PM BRIAN PAUL EHNI <bpehni@...> wrote:
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Re: Paint Scheme for Swift 6700 Series Reefers
IIRC, I used Scalecoat Reefer Yellow for mine.
Thanks!
From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of O Fenton Wells <srrfan1401@...>
Question: does anyone have a 'go to' paint for the Swift Yellow color?? I prefer lacquers. Fenton Wells
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 2:10 PM Marty McGuirk <mjmcguirk@...> wrote:
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Fenton Wells Pinehurst NC 28374
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Re: Paint Scheme for Swift 6700 Series Reefers
Question: does anyone have a 'go to' paint for the Swift Yellow color?? I prefer lacquers. Fenton Wells
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 2:10 PM Marty McGuirk <mjmcguirk@...> wrote:
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Ventilated Boxcar for Grain Rush
gary laakso
Classic Trains has a picture of a block of boxcars used in a 1946 grain move:
http://ctr.trains.com/photo-of-the-day/2019/04/delayed-in-transit
The last car is a ventilated boxcar on the MOP moving grain.
Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock
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Re: Paint Scheme for Swift 6700 Series Reefers
Richard Townsend
The Feb 1993 RMJ has color photos of models built from these kits, that might answer your questions. I have only a low-res scan and can't tell. In the Oct 1953 MR Paul Larsen has an article on building a Swift reefer in the red scheme from a different number series. He had the prototype car in front of him. He said the sill steps and underframe were black. Sides and ends red, except under the door, where black was uses. He said nothing about a different color for the end sill. Looking at other color photos of other red Swift cars (all from other number series), the sill steps under the doors are always black. At the ends of the sides, the sill steps appear to vary, with red used if the sides are steel, and sometimes red, sometimes black if the sides are wood (black especially if these is a black metal plate above the step - looks like a wrap-around from the end sill). The end sills also appear to be black when that plate is on the sides. Sometimes they appear to be black even without that plate, but usually red. In many cases, heavy weathering makes color determinations difficult, with everything in question just a dirty gray. Suggested solution: weather. Richard Townsend
Lincoln City, OR
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From: Nelson Moyer <npmoyer@...> To: RealSTMFC@groups.io <RealSTMFC@groups.io> Sent: Fri, Jun 14, 2019 9:48 am Subject: [RealSTMFC] Paint Scheme for Swift 6700 Series Reefers I’m building two Sunshine 6700 series reefers, and I only have two photos of these cars, both in black and white. SRLX 6723 is painted in the yellow banner scheme, and it’s clear that the underframe
cover plates and sill steps are yellow, while the rest of the underframe is black. SRLX 6714 is painted in the red scheme, and it’s not possible to determine if the color plates and sill steps are red or black. I can’t tell if the end sills are red or black.
I’d appreciate information about the red paint scheme for this car and any color photos available.
Nelson Moyer
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