Mike Vana

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  • July 9, 2015 at 4:44 pm in reply to: 34′ coal hopper #6702
    Mike Vana
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    After 1962, hopper cars began getting freight car red paint and survivors in 1967 were typically renumbered with six digits.

    Some of these 34′ coal hoppers made it through the sixties but I’m sure most got the red paint. It’s easier to rationalize having something in older paint than may have escaped being rebuilt than having a 1982 era paint scheme show up in 1974.

    it is likely the move away from Illinois coal because of its sulfur content made many of these cars surplus by the 1970s. I also understand these cars were frequently rebuilt with new side sheets because of the caustic nature of the coal they carried.

    Jim Ogden

    July 9, 2015 at 4:33 pm in reply to: a little bit of MoPac in Germany #6701
    Mike Vana
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    Considering how many German communities settled in both Missouri and Texas, modelling MoPac in Germany seems very natural. You can still go down to New Braunfels or Fredericksberg, Texas and hear elderly cowboys with names like Dietrich and Wolfie conversing in a combination of low German (Plattdeutsch?) and English.

    I like your modelling and the terrain looks like some of the bluffs west of St. Louis.

    Jim Ogden

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