I think it's a great idea and would sign up for a set. I would like to see
something other than another 40 or 50 foot box steel box car. My "vote"
would be for:
1st. 40ft. double door single-sheated auto box car, numbered 11000-12499,
see Spoor's book page 55
2nd. Out side braced single-sheathed box car, such as the XM-30 or XM-31,
see Spoor's book page 43
3rd. Covered hopper 70 ton, HC1B #181550-181899 Spoor's book page 81
Ray Bedard
San Jose CA
From: dpmilwroad@a...
Reply-To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] modelers
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 02:05:46 EST
List; Hi, I'm brand new to this list, live in Lake Oswego, OR, do not have
a
home layout, but run at my club. We have a permanent layout at our
clubhouse,
and a very large, modular traveling "show."
I'm on a couple of other RR modeling chat sites. (NP, SP&S, GN and of
course,
MILW.)
I work part-time at Whistle Stop Trains in Portland, OR and there has been
some discussion about putting together a four car "BN predecessor" kit, to
be
sold at our various conventions, on line, and at the store's web site and
at
the retail store.
The kit would include one car each from the GN, NP, SP&S and the Q.
Charley at Whistle Stop has done a really great job with the SP&S special
run
cars. Hopefully you have seen some of them.
I have spoken with him about this idea and the feed back I got was "we need
to do something really nice, and also unique, something that hasn't been
done
before"
The thinking is Intermountain or Red Caboose, or possibly Branchline. Not
museum quality, but certainly very nice models. If any of you have seen the
SP&S cars, you will know what I mean. He would front all of the setup and
production costs and will donate $1.00 to each of the four historical
societies for each "kit" sold. We are shooting for a retail price of
approximately $65.00.
What we need from each of the RR modeling "chat groups" is a feel for what
kind of car they would like to see produced, as in a particular box car, or
a
specific run of chip cars, that kind of thing. He also said "we need a
commitment from about 50 people that they would like to see this thing done
before we proceed." At the NP site, we now have approximately 20.
We are just in the "what -- if" stage right now, so I would appreciate any
and all feed back.
Please reply to:
Don Pilgrim
Lake Oswego, OR
dpmilwroad@a...
DSPproducts.com
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