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Richard Dick #45268 I know that Sunshine Models sells chalk mark decals (perhaps others do, too). Is there any information available as to what the marks mean, when/how they were used, etc? Or does one just apply what looks good?! Richard Dick Tucson --------------------------------- Yahoo! for Good Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.
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Bruce Smith <smithbf@...> #45277 On Sep 14, 2005, at 11:51 PM, Richard Dick wrote: I know that Sunshine Models sells chalk mark decals (perhaps others do, too). Is there any information available as to what the marks mean, when/how they were used, etc? Or does one just apply what looks good?! Richard, By and large, chalk marks from the steam era are indecipherable to us now. Many are private codes used by train crews to themselves as to where to spot a car. Others are codes used among crews to indicate something about a car. Some of the obvious ones might include "OK" or a check mark chalked over a truck to indicate a bearing that had been checked and "MT" for empty. In general, I try to pick random marks and then place them as I have seen them placed in photos... usually on the left end of the car near the number, near or on the door, and sometimes on the right end over the trucks. In one particular Sunshine sheet there was a "POT". Beats me what that was supposed to have been, but I couldn't resist putting it on a Southern Autocar, indicating that it had either been through or was heading to Potomac Yard... which is how it got on my section of the PRR <G>. Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn, AL http://www.vetmed.auburn.edu/~smithbf/ "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" - Benjamin Franklin __ / \ __<+--+>________________\__/___ ________________________________ \|- ______/ O O \_______ -\| \| __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ \| \| / 4999 PENNSYLVANIA 4999 \ \| \|\|__\|\|__\|\|__\|\|__\|\|__\|\|__\|\|__\|\|__\|\| \|/_____________________________\\|_\|________________________________\| \| O--O \0 0 0 0/ O--O \| 0-0-0 0-0-0
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VERLIN WHITE #45295 Hi, Maybe it was loaded with potoes? Bruce Smith <smithbf@...> wrote: On Sep 14, 2005, at 11:51 PM, Richard Dick wrote: I know that Sunshine Models sells chalk mark decals (perhaps others do, too). Is there any information available as to what the marks mean, when/how they were used, etc? Or does one just apply what looks good?! Richard, By and large, chalk marks from the steam era are indecipherable to us now. Many are private codes used by train crews to themselves as to where to spot a car. Others are codes used among crews to indicate something about a car. Some of the obvious ones might include "OK" or a check mark chalked over a truck to indicate a bearing that had been checked and "MT" for empty. In general, I try to pick random marks and then place them as I have seen them placed in photos... usually on the left end of the car near the number, near or on the door, and sometimes on the right end over the trucks. In one particular Sunshine sheet there was a "POT". Beats me what that was supposed to have been, but I couldn't resist putting it on a Southern Autocar, indicating that it had either been through or was heading to Potomac Yard... which is how it got on my section of the PRR <G>. Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn, AL http://www.vetmed.auburn.edu/~smithbf/ "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" - Benjamin Franklin __ / \ __<+--+>________________\__/___ ________________________________ \|- ______/ O O \_______ -\| \| __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ \| \| / 4999 PENNSYLVANIA 4999 \ \| \|\|__\|\|__\|\|__\|\|__\|\|__\|\|__\|\|__\|\|__\|\| \|/_____________________________\\|_\|________________________________\| \| O--O \0 0 0 0/ O--O \| 0-0-0 0-0-0 SPONSORED LINKS Worldwide travel insurance Travel trailer insurance International travel insurance Travel insurance usa Travel medical insurance Csa travel insurance --------------------------------- YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "STMFC" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: STMFC-unsubscribe@... Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---------------------------------
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Ned Carey <nedspam@...> #45315 Bruce F. Smith wrote: In one particular Sunshine sheet there was a "POT". Beats me what that was supposed to have been, but I couldn't resist putting it on a Southern Autocar. . . . Obviously Bruce that was intended to go on a "reefer" Ned Carey
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Richard Dick #45349 Thanks, Bruce. I appreciate you taking the time to respond. Richard Dick Bruce Smith <smithbf@...> wrote: On Sep 14, 2005, at 11:51 PM, Richard Dick wrote: I know that Sunshine Models sells chalk mark decals (perhaps others do, too). Is there any information available as to what the marks mean, when/how they were used, etc? Or does one just apply what looks good?! Richard, By and large, chalk marks from the steam era are indecipherable to us now. Many are private codes used by train crews to themselves as to where to spot a car. Others are codes used among crews to indicate something about a car. Some of the obvious ones might include "OK" or a check mark chalked over a truck to indicate a bearing that had been checked and "MT" for empty. In general, I try to pick random marks and then place them as I have seen them placed in photos... usually on the left end of the car near the number, near or on the door, and sometimes on the right end over the trucks. In one particular Sunshine sheet there was a "POT". Beats me what that was supposed to have been, but I couldn't resist putting it on a Southern Autocar, indicating that it had either been through or was heading to Potomac Yard... which is how it got on my section of the PRR <G>. Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn, AL http://www.vetmed.auburn.edu/~smithbf/ "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" - Benjamin Franklin __ / \ __<+--+>________________\__/___ ________________________________ \|- ______/ O O \_______ -\| \| __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ \| \| / 4999 PENNSYLVANIA 4999 \ \| \|\|__\|\|__\|\|__\|\|__\|\|__\|\|__\|\|__\|\|__\|\| \|/_____________________________\\|_\|________________________________\| \| O--O \0 0 0 0/ O--O \| 0-0-0 0-0-0 SPONSORED LINKS Worldwide travel insurance Travel trailer insurance International travel insurance Travel insurance usa Travel medical insurance Csa travel insurance --------------------------------- YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "STMFC" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: STMFC-unsubscribe@... Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. --------------------------------- --------------------------------- Yahoo! for Good Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.
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