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Gondola help
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rockroll50401 <cepropst@...>
A freind has several Life-Like gondolas which are all freight car
red. He would like to paint one or two black. Can anyone supply info on any of these gons that were black, other than the models that are available? Repaints would be fine, he models 1965. Also anyone have any photos of CGW gondolas? Thanks for your help, Clark Propst |
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Richard Hendrickson
A freind has several Life-Like gondolas which are all freight carClark, the biggest fleets of Greenville design gons were those of the Erie and the NYC. The Erie cars, which were painted black, were renumbered into the Erie-Lackawanna roster beginning in the early 1960s, and I have several photos of them in E-L paint and lettering (for which, IIRC, Life-Like didn't issue a model). That's certainly one possibility. DT&I's Greenville-design gons were also painted black, but in the mid-'60s all (or almost all) of them were in auto frame service with racks installed for stacking frames on end. WP's gons were black also, but L-L did a factory P/L job for them and that scheme didn't change signficantly from the '40s into the '60s. Richard H. Hendrickson Ashland, Oregon 97520 |
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Richard and Clark, LL did do the EL scheme in a latter run. What they didn't do were partial Erie Repaints, where only the reportimg marks were changed. (See the upper photo on page 36 of the Erie/DL&W color Guide for a view of this scheme.) Decals for this scheme, as well as ERIE and EL are available from Prime Mover Decals for those that want to letter their own cars.
Also the NKP had some of these gons which were painted black. After the merger with the N&W in 1964 I imagine these were repainted black with N&W lettering, but I have never seen a picture of an N&W Greenville gon since they are not within my timeframe. Richard Hendrickson <rhendrickson@...> wrote: A freind has several Life-Like gondolas which are all freight carClark, the biggest fleets of Greenville design gons were those of the Erie and the NYC. The Erie cars, which were painted black, were renumbered into the Erie-Lackawanna roster beginning in the early 1960s, and I have several photos of them in E-L paint and lettering (for which, IIRC, Life-Like didn't issue a model). That's certainly one possibility. DT&I's Greenville-design gons were also painted black, but in the mid-'60s all (or almost all) of them were in auto frame service with racks installed for stacking frames on end. WP's gons were black also, but L-L did a factory P/L job for them and that scheme didn't change signficantly from the '40s into the '60s. Richard H. Hendrickson Ashland, Oregon 97520 --------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STMFC/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: STMFC-unsubscribe@... Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. |
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Brian J Carlson Brian Carlson <prrk41361@...> wrote: Richard and Clark, LL did do the EL scheme in a latter run. What they didn't do were partial Erie Repaints, where only the reportimg marks were changed. (See the upper photo on page 36 of the Erie/DL&W color Guide for a view of this scheme.) Decals for this scheme, as well as ERIE and EL are available from Prime Mover Decals for those that want to letter their own cars. Also the NKP had some of these gons which were painted black. After the merger with the N&W in 1964 I imagine these were repainted black with N&W lettering, but I have never seen a picture of an N&W Greenville gon since they are not within my timeframe. Richard Hendrickson <rhendrickson@...> wrote: A freind has several Life-Like gondolas which are all freight carClark, the biggest fleets of Greenville design gons were those of the Erie and the NYC. The Erie cars, which were painted black, were renumbered into the Erie-Lackawanna roster beginning in the early 1960s, and I have several photos of them in E-L paint and lettering (for which, IIRC, Life-Like didn't issue a model). That's certainly one possibility. DT&I's Greenville-design gons were also painted black, but in the mid-'60s all (or almost all) of them were in auto frame service with racks installed for stacking frames on end. WP's gons were black also, but L-L did a factory P/L job for them and that scheme didn't change signficantly from the '40s into the '60s. Richard H. Hendrickson Ashland, Oregon 97520 --------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STMFC/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: STMFC-unsubscribe@... Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STMFC/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: STMFC-unsubscribe@... Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term' |
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Richard Hendrickson wrote
Clark, the biggest fleets of Greenville design gons were those of the Erie Richard, Proto 2000 did release Erie-Lackawanna cars. I have one; it's a later "Timesaver" kit lettered EL #11489. I think P2K applied almost every legitimate paint scheme they could find for these cars. Tim O. |
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rockroll50401 <cepropst@...>
Thanks for all the advice on the gons.
I forwarded all the post to the other guy and he would like to paint one of his gons as one of the NKP cars after the N&W merger. 1.Does anyone have a photo of a N&W gondola? 2.Does anyone know of a decal source? 3.Nobody knows nothing about CGW gons? Thanks again for any help, it's appreciated, Clark 'middle man' Propst |
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