Duh!

I just dawned on me while reading Ted Culotta's 1932 ARA box car book last night. There is enough
prototype information there for Kadee to do what Kadee does. Multiple roads, too.

SGL

How much you wanna bet on your hunch?????<g>????

Marty McGuirk

Schuyler

I find this unlikely -- there were slight variations, doors and roofs and
ends, from road to road. Recall that Kadee has resisted doing cars when the
TACK BOARDS on the doors were in the wrong place, or when the ends had a
small number of visible rivets compared to cars with no rivets. With the
PS-1 it was economical to produce 8 physically different 40 foot bodies
(not counting door variations!) because of the huge number of owners (more
than 75,000 cars).

Not that I have any idea what it is, but I'd be dumfounded (but HAPPY) if
Kadee produced a 1932 ARA box.

More likely would be a USRA box car! But I hope not.

Tim O.

Schuyler wrote

eight variations is economical for a PS1, but not for an ARA 1932?
How so?

Because each of the 8 variations of the PS-1 has 10 to 50 possible
paint schemes, and many different owners. Can you say that about the
1932 ARA box? From Ted's tally it looks like there were 20 owners of
the 1932 box cars, covering different roofs (6!), ends (6!), interior
heights (3), underframes (Duryea or conventional), and doors.

Tim O'Connor

Looking at the book more last night, I realized that the ERIE fan would probably get screwed again,
since it used those strange Chicago? ends.

SGL

Schuyler Larrabee wrote:

Looking at the book more last night, I realized that the ERIE fan would probably get screwed again,
since it used those strange Chicago? ends.

So, Schuyler, the paranoids are out to get you again?

Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA
2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com
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Lars Svanevik wrote:

Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean that they are not out to get
you.

Um, yes, Lars, I too have read "Catch 22."

Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA
2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com
(510) 540-6538; fax, (510) 540-1937; e-mail, thompson@...
Publishers of books on railroad history

Schuyler Larrabee wrote:

Looking at the book more last night, I realized that the ERIE fan
would probably get screwed again,

So, Schuyler, the paranoids are out to get you again?
Tony Thompson

Tony, he didn't say EERIE, he said ERIE.

Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean that they are not out to get
you.

Lars Svanevik

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Schuyler Larrabee wrote:

Looking at the book more last night, I realized that the ERIE fan
would probably get screwed again,
since it used those strange Chicago? ends.

So, Schuyler, the paranoids are out to get you again?

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2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com
(510) 540-6538; fax, (510) 540-1937; e-mail, thompson@...
Publishers of books on railroad history



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--- In STMFC@..., Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> wrote:

Schuyler Larrabee wrote:

Looking at the book more last night, I realized that the ERIE fan
would probably get screwed again,

So, Schuyler, the paranoids are out to get you again?
Tony Thompson

Tony, he didn't say EERIE, he said ERIE.

Schuyler, Tony and Tim,

The problem is that Schuyler's modeling too new a time period. Go
back to the 5' gauge and NONE of Kadee's (or anyone elses') cars are
prototypical, so you can scratch-build and get exactly what you want
(or, in my case, nothing <G>).

Walter M. Clark
Time stopped in November 1941
Riverside, California

--- In STMFC@..., Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> wrote:

Schuyler Larrabee wrote:

Looking at the book more last night, I realized that the

ERIE fan

would probably get screwed again,

So, Schuyler, the paranoids are out to get you again?
Tony Thompson

Tony, he didn't say EERIE, he said ERIE.

Schuyler, Tony and Tim,

The problem is that Schuyler's modeling too new a time
period. Go back to the 5' gauge and NONE of Kadee's (or
anyone elses') cars are prototypical, so you can
scratch-build and get exactly what you want (or, in my case,
nothing <G>).

Walter M. Clark
Time stopped in November 1941
Riverside, California

SIX foot gauge, Walter, SIX foot gauge. Real serious railroading, and to many people's thinking,
what should have been done in the long run, instead of choosing narrow gauge.

SGL

Schuyler,

Well, there was the Great Western (of England) with 7' gauge. No wonder they called it "God's own railway."

Kind regards,


Garth G. Groff

Schuyler Larrabee wrote:

Garth Groff wrote:

Well, there was the Great Western (of England) with 7' gauge. No wonder
they called it "God's own railway."

No, no, Garth! Look at the initials. It was "God's Wonderful Railway." GWR fans still enjoy saying that today.

Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA
2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com
(510) 540-6538; fax, (510) 540-1937; e-mail, thompson@...
Publishers of books on railroad history