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Re: Adding the SF Coaches...
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 25 Feb 2002 12:39:23 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Ross Crawford writes:
> > In lugnet.trains, Kevin Salm writes:
> > > In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> > > > A better idea in my view would be to build the locomotives withOUT the
> > > > bases. The red and yellow stripes should be the same width. (technically
> > > > there should be a black one as well...) Using those red bases messes that up.
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> > > Okay, so where does the Black stripe go -- on the bottom or in between the
> > > other colors?
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> > On this page
> > http://www.midwestnpioneer.org/timetable/fallenflags/superchief.html it
> > shows a black stripe above the yellow. It also looks like the red line is
> > about the same width as the yellow & black combined, so maybe you could use
> > the red bases (2 plates high) with one plate each of yellow & black.
> > Wouldn't match the loco, though, unless you modify that too.
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> This ref has been posted a bunch of times now, and I agree it's great. But
> I've got to go dig up a different one to get a contrasting view. This link
> shows the coaches have no stripes at all, like I said earlier in the thread.
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> ++Lar
At the moment I'm working on an RPO based on the image at this link. Does
anyone know whether it would have had doors on both sides? I seem to recall
that the British TPO (travelling post office) carriages were/are asymmetric.
With all those windows on the visible side, it is hard to figure how they
could have contained a sorting frame unless the other side was window-less.
Chris
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| (...) Agreed. the interior is very likely asymmetric (I've seen plans of RPOs but can't give a cite right now, they were in published in Model Railroader). Notwithstanding that, there are certainly doors on both sides (in an area that doesn't have (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) This ref has been posted a bunch of times now, and I agree it's great. But I've got to go dig up a different one to get a contrasting view. This link shows the coaches have no stripes at all, like I said earlier in the thread. ++Lar (25 years ago, 24-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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