----- Original Message -----
From: "M. Thayer" <zephyr@k...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Q - Stewert 70 ton hoppers
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cynthia & Duncan Cameron" <d.cameron@s...>
> To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 8:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Q - Stewert 70 ton hoppers
>
>
> > I happen to have a bunch of these cars -- six in mineral red and four in
> > chinese red (one of which is lettered for the C&S). As far as I know,
the
> > cars themselves are very close to the Q cars. Certainly close enough
that
> I
> > can't see any differences in photographs. The numbers appear to be
> accurate
> > as well. The one flaw is that, at least on the mineral red cars, they
> made
> > a mistake with the slogans. If one is looking at the brake wheel end of
> > most Q cars, the car would have Way of the Zephyrs on the left hand side
> and
> > Everywhere West on the right. It struck me as strange, when I got these
> > cars, that Stewart had reversed them, and I wondered why. It turns out
> that
> > these cars acutally had Everywhere West painted on both sides of the
car.
> > My guess is that Stewart, going from perhaps a single photo, assumed
that
> > Way of the Zephyrs must be on the flip-side, since the only slogan
visible
> > was the Everywhere West.
>
. . . so, a couple of hours later, I got out my P2K War Emergency hoppers,
and OMG! They did the same thing!
Anyone know a source for correct-sized decals to fix it?
Marshall
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