I discussed doing this with Tom when he first came out with his
cars. The problem was the ends - both for the roof and the ends
themselves. They are different - different enough that he had them
cast in resin to make them correctly.
Now, I think that as Q passenger interests, we should be happy with
that level of dedication. It certainly would have been easier to
have him take the 60' cars and just make the sides - the roofs he has
to make (out of Bethlehem car roofs, cut and glued and filled to be
right) are certainly not fun for him to do. Now, he's looking at
other cars to do - like the DL-5 and such. One of the ongoing issues
he has with the streamline cars he can put out is that they have to
conform to the KNOWN shortness of the available core kits. He'd
rather get things right - he is a modeler as well. Nothing wrong
with either approach, it's "your railroad". But it is nice to have
the availability of correct parts.
Message 1
From: "Ed DeRouin" Ed@pixelspublishing.com
Date: Tue May 23, 2006 7:21am(PDT)
Subject: Re: Heavy Weight ???'s
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
>
Bob Webber
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