Hi Tom; An actual modeling post! What fun!
There were several articles published on War Emergency cars in Mainline Modeler and elsewhere, but these are harder to access without the on-line index. I found the following links which may be helpful: http://www.sunshinekits.com/sunimages/sun29a.pdf http://www.sunshinekits.com/sunimages/sun29b.pdf http://www.sunshinekits.com/sunimages/sun29c.pdf http://www.sunshinekits.com/sunimages/sun29d.pdf Pieter E. Roos --- On Sun, 9/19/10, Thomas Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Thomas Baker <[email protected]> > Subject: {S-Scale List} RE: Those NMRA box cars and an idea > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, September 19, 2010, 11:14 AM > > I have not yet ordered one of those ten Dollar NMRA box > cars but still want to if some of the PRS cars remain. > IF the car is a 10' 6" IH, it would be interesting to try > the following: > > 1. Cut off the sides entirely, leaving the roof and ends > intact. > > 2. Transform the car into a WWII War Emergency box > car. Several important roads had these cars. I cannot > recall all, but the following come to mind: NKP, C&NW, > NP, after that memory fails. > > Just thinking about such a project now, it doesn't seem > that challenging or improbable. Of course, it's just > come to mind and may harbor pitfalls I know not of. IF > the car is a PRS car with a 10' 0" IH, well, one road--I > cannot recall which--had War Emergency cars of that IH as > well. > > Someone on this list may know which roads had these > cars. Anyway, sounds like an interesting > project. Any thoughts. > > Tom > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [email protected] > > > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
