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Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Walthers new dome

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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Walthers new dome
From: "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net>
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 21:48:49 -0600
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On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 01:57:05 -0000, Manfred Lorenz wrote
> --- In BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com, "zephyr9903" <zephyr9903@i...> wrote:
> ....
> > <deeeep sigh> . . . it's bogus.
> ....
> >Please note: - you're going to have to extend the car
> > nameplate to accommodate "Silver Whatchamacallit" . . . they
> apparently sized
> > the panel to ATSF numbers (silly persons) . . . . . .
> >
> > Marshall Thayer
> 
> Thanks Marshall,
> 
> Now I have to look for decals with Watchamacallit. Looks like an
> indian name? Chief Whatdowehavehere suggesting a name for his newborn
> to the Squaw.

Becoming marginally serious, MicroScale has decals for all the dome names - 
there's a set for the California Zephyr, and I filled in the remaining gaps 
with my "Postwar Zephyr Pool" set -
> 
> The prototype is from CP/VIA actually and for that car dead on.
> 
> Was there ever a car coming down from the big white north to run on
> the Q?

Alas, no - but you are correct - when CP equipped The Canadian, they had Budd 
duplicate the appropriate CZ cars - which makes VIA the last operator of the 
raised-ceiling CZ-style dome solariums among other things . . . and for CP 
fans, the Walthers cars are a bonanza - CP cars had the same narrow-fluted 
letterboard space, but they were overplated at the factory for the full-
length tuscan roadname panels, which makes them very close to CP cars

I wish Walthers had done the narrow fluting & had an optional flush-
letterboard part.  It wou;ld have produced a line of cars that were "close 
enough" for dozens of roads . . . but nobody *ASKED* me!

Marshall Thayer
Consulting Model Railroader
Mt. Pleasant, IA 

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