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Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Passenger Cars

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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Passenger Cars
From: "M. Thayer" <zephyr@k...>
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 15:21:11 -0600
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Reply-to: "M. Thayer" <mthayer@k...>
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From: <kmartin@c...>
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Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 11:48 AM
Subject: [BRHSlist] Re: Passenger Cars


> --- In BRHSlist@egroups.com, kzach@e... wrote:
> > Duncan & List-
> >
> > A friend of mine went to the Hobby Show and the RPM meet here in
> Chicago. He picked up a photocopy
> > of new products from Branchline Trains. Sometime down the road,
> they
> will be doing an 80' heavyweight
> > coach, one of the roads will be the Q. Their first offerings will
> be
> some Pullmans, none of the roads listed were Q.
> >
> > Jim Zach
>
> Jim and all
>
> I talked with Branchline at the show with the NMRA convention in San
> Jose. The coach they are doing is a NYC coach and while it has a
> wider letterboard by the picture it only has 22 windows while the Q
> 6100's have 23, we will just have to wait and see. The two Pullmans
> they
> have
> in their catalog are the 8-1-2 and the 10-1-2. The 8-1-2 is good for
> the cars that were named for Q officials ie: John M. Forbes, Charles
> Perkins, etc.
>
Until we see it, who can tell . . . but the modernized 10-3s that were
assigned to the Zephyr Rocket for 12-15 years ("Cedar Rapids" and
"Minneapolis") were rebuilt from 10-1-2s . . . which might be a jhob for
NERS -

Marshall


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