Re: [CBQ] New Christmas trains

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Anthony,

 

Congratulations on the fine looking Christmas additions to your Q stables.  They are making some nice equipment in N-scale these days.  While they may not perfectly represent specific CB&Q classes, they do a very nice job of capturing the essence of cars used on the Q up to the BN merger and beyond. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In a message dated 12/30/2013 10:42:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, anunziata1776@hotmail.com writes:

 

I'm not too concerned with the road numbers on an N scale model or any scale really. I can barely see them anyway on the N scale. What I am concerned with is years they ran and looks of the cars matching real ones. 

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On Dec 30, 2013, at 3:54 PM, "Rupert & Maureen" <gamlenz@ihug.co.nz> wrote:

 

Anthony

I regret to advise you that these are not exactly accurate CB&Q models. The number 48383 on the box car was last used between 1933 and 1940 on a rebuilt XA-6 auto box car. Maybe change the number to 48583 which was allocated to a XA-15B (it looked similar) between 1941 and 1970, and into the BN era.

The gondola car E3141 looks like the Bachman 42’ model.  The Burlington didn’t use letters before road numbers and I can’t think of any CB&Q steel gondolas that were similar to the model. I bought this same model about 35 years ago when I started collecting Burlington equipment. I ended up repainting it orange as MoW equipment, representing a foreign car that was rebuilt after being written off in a wreck.

But it is your train on your layout so if they look good to you, that is the only criteria.

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

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From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Nunziata
Sent: Tuesday, 31 December 2013 9:00 a.m.
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [CBQ] New Christmas trains

I attached two new N scale Burlington cards I got for Christmas. I got a total of 22 cards for Christmas, some O and N scale. It was a very nice Christmas for me.
 
Can anyone tell me what years these would have been ran? Which year they would have been last seen?
 
Thanks,
Anthony

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