Hi Bill,
Thanks for the correction. With the shops being located in North
Kansas City, was the shop code NKC or simply KC?
Thanks again,
Mark Heiden
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, William Barber <clipperw@...> wrote:
>
> Mark,
>
> The only Kansas City shop area that I am familiar with was and is
> located in Murray Yard in North Kansas City, MO., not Kansas. In
BN
> days, the facility was rather limited until EMD rebuilt the shop
for
> more extensive work on Oakway SD60 locomotives. However, I don't
know
> when that building was originally erected in Murray yard or
whether
> it was before or after the merger. I seem to recall that the Q had
a
> more extensive shop facility in NKC, at least in steam and early
> diesel days. Whether those facilities existed in the late '60s, I
am
> not sure. What was there on the BN before the early 1990's,
probably
> couldn't paint and modify cars, or locomotives, for that matter. If
I
> am correct about a more extensive Q facility, they probably had
the
> ability to do such modifications. NKC, after all, was a major
> terminal then as it is now.
>
> Bill Barber
>
> On Jan 2, 2008, at 8:02 AM, CBQ@yahoogroups.com wrote:
>
> > Kansas City shop capabilities
> > Posted by: "Mark Heiden" mark_heiden@... mark_heiden
> > Tue Jan 1, 2008 11:37 am (PST)
> >
> > Happy New Year everyone!
> >
> > I'm lettering a boxcar in the simplified Chinese Red paint
scheme
> > using
> > Champ decals, set HB-336. This set includes codes for two shops:
> > Havelock NE (HV), and Kansas City KS (KC). My model is to
represent a
> > car that had it's runningboards removed and was repainted in the
late
> > 1960s. Was the Kansas City shop capable of such work? Any help
would
> > be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark Heiden
>
>
>
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>
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