Hi again --
I don’t know what happened to may last email, but I apologize for the script
changes and odd sentence splits.
I need to add one more thing – I will be having Stan Cedarleaf make decals from
the dry transfers that came with the NASG/AM/Dick Karnes’ 80 foot Pullmans.
My dry transfers fell apart when I tried to use them (probably our single digit
humidity) and I have much better luck with decals. The deal is this: Is there
anyone else who would like some of these decals? The initial setup is costly,
but additional decal sets are not too bad. Please contact me OFF LIST if you
are interested. Stan gave me about a week or so to give him a number... The
dry transfers were a silver grey, but the decals will have to be printed in
silver. I intend to coat my decals with a flat coat before using them to see
if that gives a reasonable approximation of the original.
Have fun!
Bill Winans
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For this week‘s fun I decaled an orange undec SHS reefer. This was a project
that was much more difficult than it appeared. Those cars have “grain” in
the boards the catch air under the decal. It took days of shredding the
decals and hitting them with Microsol over and over again to finally get out
all the trapped air. I conned a friend out of decals for his HO railroad,
the Atlantic Inland, so there are two heralds on the car. The SLRE reporting
marks are for the “St. Louis Refrigerated Express”, a joint venture of our two
railroads. The cars owned by his railroad have AFX reporting marks for
Atlantic Fruit Express.
Today, Nelson Steinmetz and I went up to Flagstaff and the NMRA AZ division
meet. A couple of interesting clinics, plus a demonstration of a T-mod N
scale layout. The reason this was special is that it was an elementary
school project layout with the participating students each getting a module
that was 12” long and about 9 or 10” wide (these are commercially produced) to
scenic as they chose. All the usual other modular things also had to be done
in order for the trains to run and stay on the track. Anyhow, this project
netted 14 new model railroaders that seem to be enthused about model trains.
It sure looks like a neat way (and inexpensive) to get new blood into the
hobby, have fun and teach subjects related to electricity, planning, research,
etc. in a painless way. Nelson also took a first place (plaque) in
structures for his bulk oil facility diorama. Both Nelson and I took home
ribbons for our “favorite” train displays in S, so we got to wave the flag, too.
