Ray:
It is good to hear that someone has built one of the NKP car 'kits'! Your use
of existing 60-
foot car components is worth considering. particularly with the abundance of
Walthers
coaches and combines.
I believe that the first application of the ribbon-style, or spaghetti-style,
lettering was
about 1951. I do not have a specific date that aluminum paint was fisrt applied
to
heavyweight equipment handy, but suspect that it was about the same time. I
beleive that
RPO and RPO-baggage cars painted in aluminum were intended for specific
assignments.
Come to think of it, was a Q 60-foot RPO ever painted aluminum?
Regards,
Ed DeRouin
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Ray Bedard" <tczephyr@...> wrote:
>
> I just finished completing the NKP 60 foot 5 window RPO car. I used a
> Trainline (Walthers) 60 foot RPO for the roof, underside (including trucks)
> and body frame instead of the one supplied by NKP. This resulted in a much
> easier and quicker kit to build rather than using the supplied roof and
> floor. Didn't need to buy new trucks or other detail parts. I wonder what
> other 60 foot cars NKP could make in brass that would use these Trainline
> bodies. I think this would make a very interesting project for them.
>
> Anyway, what I am wondering is, what year did the Q start painting some of
> their heavy weight equipment in silver? Also, what year did they start using
> the spaghetti style lettering on the green heavy weight cars in place of the
> Roman style lettering?
>
>
> Ray Bedard
> San Jose CA
>
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