Art,While this isn't N Scale,in HO,you could use the MDC/Roundhouse Harriman RPO;Baggage and or Combine to kitbash Baggage/RPO 128. ... [Non-text portions of...
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TNO@yahoogroups.com
Oct 27, 2007 4:56 am
Reminder from: TNO Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TNO/cal Flatonia, TX Rail Gathering Saturday November 3, 2007 All Day Location: Flatonia, TX Rail...
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Frank Fertitta
sunbeam1314
Oct 27, 2007 5:16 am
David - See if you can get your hands on a copy of Joe Strapac's "Southern Pacific Review 1981." There is a scale drawing on page 12 of a C-40-3 and...
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Ken Harrison
sptrain98
Oct 27, 2007 6:26 am
Couldn't have done this while I spent that month in Houston a couple of weeks ago, could ya!<g> SP DTCTR...
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david ellzey
davidellzey1
Oct 27, 2007 5:28 pm
Frank, Have Joe Strapac's SP Review 1981, have seen the scale drawings of the C-40-3. Do not know if the steel cupolas and the C-30-1 wood rebuilds are the...
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Jim Warsher
erie2536
Oct 28, 2007 6:39 pm
Please look at the photo of T&NO Pacific 608 taken at San Antonio in 1928 by Otto Perry. Can anyone tell what the basic color [of boiler jacket and cylinder ...
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Jim Ogden
sjogden61
Oct 28, 2007 9:04 pm
Probably their version of simulated Russia Iron (which supposedly was tinted toward a grayish blue rather than gray-green like the TP). Hallmark's last run...
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Brian Ehni
brianehni
Oct 29, 2007 12:28 am
I vote for gloss black; it seems to match the sheen of the tender where the curvatures match the lighting angle. Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: Jim Ogden...
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Anthony Thompson
sigpress
Oct 29, 2007 8:52 pm
... Arthur, in the next couple of months the SPH&TS Volume 3 on Head End Equipment will be out, containing MANY such drawings. I'd advise you to wait for it if...
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Anthony Thompson
sigpress
Oct 29, 2007 9:05 pm
... I defy Frank or anyone to identify ANY significant information that is in Joe's article that is not in the Volume 2 (Cabooses) of my series. There are...
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Arthur Averitt
arthur_averitt
Oct 29, 2007 9:17 pm
Tony, thanks for the info. I'll keep an eye out for it. Arthur From: TNO@yahoogroups.com [mailto:TNO@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Thompson Sent:...
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Frank Fertitta
sunbeam1314
Oct 29, 2007 10:15 pm
Tony Tony Tony! $15.95 or $65.00! $15.95 or $65.00. Boy I'll have to think about that! Frank Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> wrote: ... I defy...
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Anthony Thompson
sigpress
Oct 29, 2007 11:47 pm
... Frank, Frank, Frank! 39 pages or 390 pages? You do the math. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA...
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Frank Fertitta
sunbeam1314
Oct 30, 2007 1:35 am
Tony you don't buy a Tahoe when all you need is a set of tires! ... Frank, Frank, Frank! 39 pages or 390 pages? You do the math. Tony Thompson Editor,...
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david ellzey
davidellzey1
Oct 30, 2007 1:41 am
Guys, Guys, Guys! I think they are both great books! Have both, but Anthonys is surely more in-depth with tons of photos. So would it be safe to say that the...
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Anthony Thompson
sigpress
Oct 30, 2007 2:15 am
... Joe's article is an excellent one--for what it does. What it does NOT do is cover wood cabooses in other than "wave of the hand" manner, and cover later...
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edwardarnold2000
edwardarnold...
Oct 30, 2007 6:57 pm
Has anyone looked thru the court records of the 1890 receivership, that was filled about 7/14/1890 in the 45th district court in San Antonio,Tx? If so about...
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Jim Warsher
erie2536
Oct 31, 2007 12:32 am
Does anyone have information or perhaps a link to information about the T&NO class MM-1 2-6-6-2? I have come up with a couple of photos and I am curious to...
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Jim Warsher
erie2536
Oct 31, 2007 12:34 am
... Make that January 21, 1919 for the date of the photo. Jim Warsher --...
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Anthony Thompson
sigpress
Oct 31, 2007 12:44 am
... What do you want to know, Jim? They are listed in a number of references and are well covered in Tim McLennan's forthcoming T&NO book. Tony Thompson...
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Roger Hines
spsrwmodeler
Oct 31, 2007 1:11 am
Jim, There's some more info here: http://espee.railfan.net/sp_steam_mm-01.html Roger...
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Jim Warsher
erie2536
Oct 31, 2007 1:32 am
... First, I ought to explain that I am seeking this information in connection with a forthcoming book of Perry photographs in Texas -- I just don't know when...
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Ed Workman
ebwx2000
Oct 31, 2007 4:02 pm
Here's the short form confirm this with say, Dunscomb's "Century" book Baldwin ca 1910 See Record of Recent Construction IIRC there was a reprint. ( and...
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John Patterson
flatoniajohn...
Oct 31, 2007 5:28 pm
Mantua/Model Power's 2-6-6-2 Mallet Would Be A Good starting Point Fot A Kitbash. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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proto48er
Oct 31, 2007 6:18 pm
David - Sorry for taking so long to answer this - have been away from the computer for a while. Here, in prose, are the measurements for the cupola of T&NO...
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proto48er
Oct 31, 2007 6:26 pm
Jim - The MM-1's were used a lot between Sanderson and Del Rio, Texas. I have several photos of them at the roundhouse and in the Sanderson vicinity, since I...
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CYRIL DURRENBERGER
durrecj
Oct 31, 2007 6:26 pm
The following are my conjectures based on the very limited facts available for the MM-1's. It is likely that the MM-1's were purchased to haul freight over the...
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Jim Warsher
erie2536
Oct 31, 2007 9:27 pm
... [what follows is some excellent nuggets and leads regarding the mysterious MM-1 engines] Thanks so much, Ed. There are beaucoup leads there to chase down!...
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Jim Warsher
erie2536
Oct 31, 2007 10:20 pm
Cyril [and list]: Very good thesis. Unlike modern day steam, the MM-1s would have been somewhat of a phenomenon and it would have been spelled out clearly in ...
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Jim Warsher
erie2536
Oct 31, 2007 10:28 pm
... [some really good information about the MM-1 engines, their territory, their servicing points and the type of work they did. masterful report for which I...
