Greetings All;
52'6" gons are not too long for the steam era. They were used to carry
lading such as steel girders. Many of them had drop ends that the car could be
used with extreme length lading such as poles with flat car idlers at each end.
Ben Perry
Freight Car Distributor, New Haven RR ret
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Lambert
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 7:51 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Ace stuff
From: Alan Lambert
Fort Worth, Texas
John,
Just joking with you. I don't know perfection either. I guess that is why all
of my hopper cars are SHS. I do have an insider for American Models though. I
have the MKT Pacific and all of the heavyweight passenger cars. Now for my
freight cars I may have one or two 52 foot gondola's to go with them. Don't
look on the website, you will not find them. I know they are too long for the
steam era,but They have MKT on the side for one of my roads I model. I also
have Santa-Fe Pacific and box cars for a freight train. Nothing I see is
perfect, I dont count rivits either. If it is for my 2 road names I will get
it. Maybe you need to send American Models some extra money so he can change
the tooling on the hopper. Now back to my trains. Got to get them ready for our
open house.
Alan Lambert
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From: John Degnan <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Ace stuff
Alan, yet again you don't seem to 'get me'. I have
said a number of times that I DO count rivets, but I usually do so WITHOUT
intention of correcting them if they are off by a mere few. The fine,
minute and hard to see things don't really bother me that much... but the
large,
obvious things DO bother me. Take the end bracing on the AM 3-bay
hopper... VERY obvious... so much so that it was the very FIRST thing I noticed
about the model. Yet someone commented that only I would notice such a
thing. If that is true, that something so blatantly obvious would be
overlooked by everyone else... then shame on the rest of you for being so
A.D.D. LOL!!!
Just kidding... no, really!
But seriously... as I have also said so many times in the
past - I do NOT seek perfection... just to be as accurate as I can be
without an extreme amount of effort and expense.
John Degnan
[email protected]
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
>From: Alan Lambert
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 02:05 PM
>Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Ace stuff
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>John wants it to be picture perfect with every detail.
>Alan Lambert
