[anonymous]

Better tell Hubert to go ahead and make them.

I’ll need some. There’s a Cat 4 hurricane about to hit my house in two days and there’s a good chance there won’t be anything there when I go back. I’ll build another railroad at some point but it won’t be down there.

[anonymous]

ICM…… Illinois Central Mop! 🙄 😮 😆

[anonymous]

This is how I want the track on my layout to look!

[anonymous]

I thought Collias hated diesels.

[anonymous]

I’m doing something about these cars, wasn’t hard to
do. I alerted both Strasburg and TVRRM about their existence. Let’s see if they show any interest and respond. They have the resources for restorations like these, certainly easier than rebuilding a steam engine.

[anonymous]

There are multiple railroad museum operations that run vintage freight cars. If any of them knew about these boxcars they might make an attempt to acquire and restore them. There is still enough paint on them to create stenciling. These cars might be given free to the right recipient. Strasburg? TVRR?

[anonymous]

(Prototype photo)

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[anonymous]

I’ve got a Barriger speech to the Newcomen Society. Paperback as issued – not sure where it is, but can share it with the Library if the Society doesn’t have a copy.

[anonymous]

I’ll take one. Any NOT&M going to be in it?

[anonymous]

Mine came this weekend.
Just like prototype on the MP, quite fast.
And a pair had no issues pulling 32 cars on an ops transfer run.
If I remember today, I will shoot some vids and test how many cars each can pull.

[anonymous]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/294211766933?hash=item4480634a95:g:hj0AAOSwpc5gw5ak

For real stand-up guys. Does this thing have a known prototype?

[anonymous]

It was great to see MP folks.
Thanks are starting to get back to “normal”!

See you in St Louis!!

[anonymous]

Thanks, Charlie. It was your question about the prototype cars that resulted in the photos being posted, so thanks for that, too. I had a really hard time finding any prototype images until I saw your thread.

I wish the decoration on the Walthers cars was a bit cleaner, but hopefully some weathering can disguise the rough areas. Despite the inconsistent printing quality on the car, the lettering does appear to be pretty accurate.

[anonymous]

Nate, those are outlet gates from an undecorated Atlas ACF 4650. It comes with gravity and gravity-pneumatic outlet gates. I used some of the extra gravity-pneumatic outlet gates on some PS 3148 conversions.

[anonymous]

Here are the undecorated Intermountain cars I assembled, painted and lettered for MP. I don’t know whose trucks I used; I tossed out the Intermountain trucks that came with the kits. Their old equalizing truck wasn’t bad, but the once piece truck that replaced it is awful.

I’m not a fan of Tru-Color paint having had some bad experiences painting other models, so I used a ScaleTrains Airslide hopper as a reference to mix the color using Model Master enamels since it was matched to the correct color (I learned that here in another thread). I used Microscale MC-4272 decals to letter the cars. Solvaset got a few of the labels so I’ll have to get another set to fill in and replace the missing and distorted decals:

https://pbase.com/mecrharris/image/171736882

https://pbase.com/mecrharris/image/171736883

As far as I can tell, this series of cars is a decent match for the Intermountain model. I have loads of the Athearn cars which should be a minority relative to these cars, so as I find more of these undecorated kits for cheap I’ll probably build some more.

I could really use one of these cars, but I don’t know enough about the prototype to know what to start with:

http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=183804

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