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armprem
I am striving to achieve some balance for my freight car roster.Can someone provide information as to the box car models available for the following roads:Rock Island,CNW,and IC ? Armand Premo
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benjaminfrank_hom <b.hom@...>
Armand Premo wrote:
"I am striving to achieve some balance for my freight car roster. Can someone provide information as to the box car models available for the following roads: Rock Island,CNW,and IC ?" What are your years of interest? 1947-1950? Ben Hom
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What time period?
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At 9/21/2007 07:07 PM Friday, you wrote:
I am striving to achieve some balance for my freight car roster.Can
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jim_mischke <jmischke@...>
We need to know prototype era and scale.
What is the theme of the car fleet you are trying to balance? Home road? Locale? Traffic? What modeling skill level are you comfotable with? Traditional Athearn plastic? Resin? --- In STMFC@..., "Armand Premo" <armprem@...> wrote: roster.Can someone provide information as to the box car models available forthe following roads:Rock Island,CNW,and IC ? Armand Premo
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armprem
My specific area of interest is 1946/1950.Armand Premo
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From: "benjaminfrank_hom" <b.hom@...> To: <STMFC@...> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 7:47 PM Subject: [STMFC] Re: Cars Armand Premo wrote:
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armprem
I quess I was really too vague.Sorry.HO ,1946 to 1950.Plastic or resin and prototypically accurate.Armand Premo
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From: "jim_mischke" <jmischke@...> To: <STMFC@...> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 1:02 AM Subject: [STMFC] Re: Cars
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Armand
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All three roads had 10'6" AAR box cars w/ 5/5 ends. You can use the Intermountain, Athearn (IC only), or Sunshine kits. CNW & RI had 3-bay offset hoppers, represented by Stewart or Accurail kits. CNW had 53'6" AAR flat cars, like the Proto 2000 kit. CNW leased Mather stock cars, also Proto 2000. Accurail single sheathed Howe truss box car is an IC car. Branchline: 1217 (NWX reefer), 1407 (box), 1416 (box). There are dozens more. You should peruse the Sunshine kits list, the Branchline web site, the Walthers web site, the Athearn web site, etc. Resin RI kits are available from Ron VanWerder. Tim O'Connor
My specific area of interest is 1946/1950.Armand Premo
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armprem
Skill level?That's a tough one.I build almost anything that is appropriate for the era that I model.........roughly 1948 to 1950.I scratch build as well as build resin kits.If a model is prototypically accurate,or reasonably close,I may buy it.I pay strict attention to the built date,reweigh dates etc.My car fleet is culled from time to time to better represent the period that I model.I use wheel reports and ORERs as my shopping list.I also try to adhere to percentages of roads as to size and location.Quess that is somewhat of a long answer to a short question .Armand Premo
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From: "jim_mischke" <jmischke@...> To: <STMFC@...> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 1:02 AM Subject: [STMFC] Re: Cars
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