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General american tank cars from Red Caboose
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Richard Hendrickson
Richard:Duh! Of course he is. My apologies, guys. Bill, I have seen pilot models of the RC brass GATC tank cars and they're very good. The Crystal Car Line cars have been sent back to Korea for repainting, as they turned out to be coral pink rather than red. The rest are being shipped even as we speak. I'm getting Staley (a big fleet that traveled all over in corn oil and corn syrup service), Crystal Car Line (also used to ship vegetable oils of various kinds), and an undec that I'll letter for GATX. The Army and NATX p/l are too late for me, and the SP cars didn't go off-line much. Richard H. Hendrickson Ashland, Oregon 97520 |
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Richard Hendrickson
I sent my money off to Central Hobby Supply for two of the Red CabooseBill, the prototypes for the RC ICC-103W tank cars were built by AC&F, and AFAIK GATC never owned them (though Shippers Car Line did). However, GATC built some very similar cars for themselves and others after WW II and the tanks were almost identical, so the GATC version can probably be modeled pretty accurately by modifying the RC underframes. As those cars first appeared just after the date I model, I don't have any in-service photos of GATC 103-Ws, but there's a builder's broadside of one in the 1953 CBCyc. as well as a builder's photo of an equivalent AC&F-built car. And I have other early-'50s builder's photos of the AC&F cars. Richard H. Hendrickson Ashland, Oregon 97520 |
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Ted Culotta <ted@...>
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I think Bill is referring to the brass models. -----Original Message-----
From: Richard Hendrickson [mailto:rhendrickson@...] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 1:40 PM To: STMFC@... Subject: Re: [STMFC] General american tank cars from Red Caboose I sent my money off to Central Hobby Supply for two of the Red CabooseBill, the prototypes for the RC ICC-103W tank cars were built by AC&F, and AFAIK GATC never owned them (though Shippers Car Line did). However, GATC built some very similar cars for themselves and others after WW II and the tanks were almost identical, so the GATC version can probably be modeled pretty accurately by modifying the RC underframes. As those cars first appeared just after the date I model, I don't have any in-service photos of GATC 103-Ws, but there's a builder's broadside of one in the 1953 CBCyc. as well as a builder's photo of an equivalent AC&F-built car. And I have other early-'50s builder's photos of the AC&F cars. Richard H. Hendrickson Ashland, Oregon 97520 To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: STMFC-unsubscribe@... Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ |
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Bill Welch <bwelch@...>
I sent my money off to Central Hobby Supply for two of the Red Caboose General American tank car. I ordered them Undecorated. I wondered if anyone has seen these in person and what schemes people are ordering?
Bill 'Welch <bwelch@...> Associate Minister, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax P.O. Box 130 Oakton VA 22124 www.uucf.org Telephone 703 281-4230 Fax 703 281-5399 |
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