Is it cost effective, to pursue smaller venues? Nice. But? What do they call it, now that they're off rails? Boxcab E50
The guy in this thread is trying http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine/showthread.php?t=96235 I noticed a new fence and an electrical drop near the street. I was going to get closer and maybe he would have come out but, I was on my motor scooter I heard a barking dog coming up a side street so I wheeled outa there. :tb-shocked: Great caboose pictures in this thread :thumbs_up:
Dupont Imron. We painted an ATSF baggage car with that 18 years ago and it looks as good as new. We painted a GM&O parlor car with something akin to tempera paint 10 years ago and it now looks like crap.
Expensive? How many gallons for an 80 foot passenger car? There are more and more refurbished passenger cars here near my house. I saw a MoPac in blue today.
Harold Schroeder, the guy who's car shop was booted out of the old SP shops in San Antonio by UP, moved his operations to a siding near Flash's place. I see them painting cars there now.
Yes. All work area and not easily accessible. You would have to trespass to get a picture from the highway side. I will try to get the names of the cars. The UP observation is "Cheyenne" or something like that. A Rock Island stainless steel and a MoPac corrugated gondola, too.
I am not sure what Imron goes for these days but I would guess probably over $30 a gallon. An 80 foot passenger car probably has over 3200 square feet to cover if you include the underbody. A typical gallon of paint will cover from 200 to 400 square feet. So you would need 8 to 16 gallons.
This sounds vaguely familiar. But.... This is a commercial enterprise? Or is he restoring for some other prupose? Boxcab E50
Yup, commercial enterprise. It is called Trans Texas Rail. They were originally supposed to paint our cabooses but after he lost his lease we took them to a place up in Arkansas. Here is a thread that talks about it.
Here are a couple of strings of TFM (KCSdeM) cabooses that I shot last weekend when we on another of our railfan group outings. These were in the yard in Acambaro, Guanajuato. I believe that all six of these are basically used for m-o-w crews. And here's something a little different. This is an old boxcar converted into a caboose supply office (at least that's a rough translation of "Equipador de Cabuses"). Regards Ed .
Propane tanks on top of the cabooses? Nice find, Ed M. I haven't seen that many cabooses in the USA in a long time.
Those propane tanks on the roofs look really cool. Would make for a neat model. I'm sure a model railroader would get hammered by the proto police if the pictuires were not handy.
The main purpose (note that they appear to have heavy screen material also) is probably protection against thrown rocks. Lots of locomotives down here also have heavy duty protection on the cab windows. Protection against theft is also likely.
