At the "Armadillo Ranch" in central Texas so nothing new from me this week. Here is the tail end of the Kato COLA.
Good morning from sunny, hot and humid Northeast Ohio! Managed to get a couple of cars done this week, last week it was white and black, this week is going to be black and white. Atlas 20,000 Gal Tank Car kit painted with Scalecoat II Black Paint and lettered with Islington Station Products Decals. I had a done a number of Corn Syrup cars for Cargill, this time a Vegetable Oil car for food processing. Exactrail Evans 5277CF Boxcar Kit, Painted with Scalecoat II White Paint and lettered with Herald King Decals. Car was built in 1979 and was used in either paper or lumber service out of Abbotsford, British Columbia. I remember seeing one of these new cars in Golden, BC while attending the NMRA convention in Calgary in 1979. In keeping with the time period, I added an old picture on took on the club layout of my SP SD45T-2 and SD45 (with Elephant Ears) hauling a mixed freight of mostly lumber hauling boxcars along with other mixed freight. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
I especially like your Louisiana Midland car Rick -- it's a beaut. Interesting SD-45 too, probably engineered to gather in cooler air from tunnel floors? Really neat. I didn't know anything about these.
You got it, the SD45's were stalling out in the tunnels and snowsheds as the hot exhaust air was being drawn into the radiators, the elephant ears helped draw the cooler air from the ground level into the radiators and also caused the development of the Tunnel Motors which did the same thing. Rick Jesionowski
It has fallen on the Atlantic City Railroad (a subsidiary of the Reading and predecessor of the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines) to make a supply run for the shore birds enjoying the surf and sand in desperate need of a good sandwich. First we have the pickles Then comes bread, and condiments The lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, and other perishables. And lastly the meat. Here is a video of the special of day.
