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You brushed it on the wood directly? Did you prime it first?

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What paint did you use on the boxcar?

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Third version of the prototype so far.

I’m a bit perplexed about the bracket. I’ll do my best to 3D print them, but what do y’all think about photo-etching brackets? I’ve never done photo-etching before.

The reason I think metal brackets might be better, is they would be malleable and able to fit differing boiler sizes.

Please let me know what you think.

Thanks!
Jeff

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Here’s some pictures of a PFM P-73’s number boards. Not the best pictures, but you can get the idea.

The bracket holding the number board on the model is similar to the pictures posted above. I have seen to other types of brackets so far in my limited research.

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Ok. Not a big deal. I just remember that coffee image from years and years ago. I had an uncle that worked for Humble Oil in Houston and that old 1960 Official Guide he gave me was the best present I ever had. I’d love to have it back.

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Well now, then, it’s a perfect time to ask about something I’ve wondered about for years.

Before my flood experience I had a lot of railroadiana including an old Official Guide. In the T&P passenger schedules, there was (as I remember) a repetitive graphic of a waiter with a coffee cup and the statement “where you get that famous T&P coffee.”

In the past, before Seattle became a coffee center, New Orleans was well known as a point of import entry for coffee. Several large roasting operations were there, still are, when the wind is right you can smell it all over town. I went into some of the plants in the course of my employment before I retired.

Was New Orleans the source of the TP coffee? Which company? This might be worth a paragraph in the book.

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Hey Charlie, I’ll take on the project.

I have a couple PFM P-73s sitting around, my 2200 is out getting work done.

I’ll let you know what I come up with.

Thanks,
Jeff

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The MP ones are not on the Bowser website. Are they a special run for the MPHS?

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Thanks Charlie,
I did find a pix of 512 in the late sixties. I will be ordering a couple of these. They will look good with the Genesis Gp7’s I have and the new F’s when they come out.
Steve B

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@2100Northern wrote:

Steve, I am not positive, but I doubt that the C&EI Geeps went systemwide without the original numbers being painted out, leaving a big black area (easy to model) along the hood.

I agree Genesis is getting pricey, but oh what models! You need to remember I am from the generation that had to put up with incorrect fuel tanks and had to shave off DB features for Athearn blue-box models. I remember when Athearn came out with SD40-2s without DBs! We were in heaven! Jerry

Jerry,
Thanks for the reply. In looking at all my Mop books and personal pix I cannot seem to find a date when the Jenks dipped F’s retired. In my teens in the mid to late 70’s, I would ride out to Wetmore Rd in San Antonio to watch the Mopac freights roll in and I cannot ever remember seeing them, at least on that line from Austin. Lots of SD’s and U-boats though.
Don’t get me wrong I love Genesis locos I have a room full of em. However sometimes I miss the modeling. I still have several of those accurized, super detailed and painted blue box and Athearn locos from the eighties and nineties I spent hours on.
Steve B

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Wish I could have known him

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Dan,
Not sure if you have found a good spray can match yet but Krylon makes a blue that is very close in their craft line called “Short Cuts”, that is sold at places like Hobby Lobby. they are smaller cans like the size Taniya uses but they spray well, Tamya used to make a color called “Forever Blue” that was also very close sprayed on their gray primer. But is not in production anymore but it might still be found on online scale model suppliers.
Steve B

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I’m a little late to this thread but does anyone know how far south the ex C&EI GP’s would have ventured in this scheme? I model the Temple, Taylor and Austin triangle and have alway’s been a fan of these with their Hancock whistles.
I have these new Atlas run GP7’s in the Whitman MKT version they did a few years ago and most of the road names I have seen need to be “accurized” some. Mainly horns, sunshades and other small details. To keep prices down they tend to make them all the same, except for major details like fuel tanks, db’s or not etc.
I am very excited about the Genesis F sets as well. Although the prices of Genesis is getting a bit scary.
Steve B

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A more clear shot.

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