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Subject: 
Re: Caboose to go with my recently completed Locomotive.
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.trains
Date: 
Tue, 20 Jun 2000 02:26:46 GMT
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cmasi@cmasi.chem.tulane.edu*ihatespam*
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:

> In lugnet.general, Eric Kingsley writes:
> > Followups to lugnet.trains
> > 
> > Well as promised I got some work done on a caboose to go with my Boston and
> > Maine Locomotive.
> > 
> > All the information about it is on the page so let me send you there.
> > 
> > http://www.lugnet.com/trains/~15/bm-caboose/
> > 
> > Let me know what you think.
> 
> It came out pretty nice, and thanks for the credit! I'd like to think that over
> the years, a number of cabeese have been inspired by that one (all the good
> looking ones, and none of the ones that look too tall, naturally :-) ).


"What would you consider too tall?" he asks sheepishly while hoping the response
is not, "Why of course, yours is too tall."

> 
> > On another note I tried a couple more boxcars over the weekend and I found • some
> > colors just don't work well together.  For example I tried a Yellow and Red
> > boxcar and all I could think of was a Big Mac so I scraped that.
> 
> My railbox has yellow sides and a red roof and floor, it doesn't look TOO bad.
> 
> I think red with a plate thick yellow stripe also looks good, I use that scheme
> (actually two stripes, one at floor level, one just below the window line) to
> great effect in my doodlebug.
> 
> So I'd say you CAN get red and yellow to work together, but you have to work at
> it. Try solid red with a yellow door, that's actually prototypical (plug door
> service).


I thought the yellow door meant that the car was used for news paper service?[1]

And what is a plug door?

[1] see http://crcyc.railfan.net/crrs/box/boxcr.html

> 
> ++Lar

Chris



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  Re: Caboose to go with my recently completed Locomotive.
 
(...) It came out pretty nice, and thanks for the credit! I'd like to think that over the years, a number of cabeese have been inspired by that one (all the good looking ones, and none of the ones that look too tall, naturally :-) ). (...) some (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)

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